Fire in the Masonry Stove | Start to finish

Turn your TV in a fireplace. This fire was recorded on Thursday 21 December in my cabin. There was a severe storm going on, which you sometimes hear in the background. A masonry stove works a bit different than a conventional cast iron wood stove. It is designed to burn a fire as hot and as fast as possible, in one go, without adding more wood during the burn. The hot air goes through extended flue channels that heat the masonry, before it reaches the chimney. More so than the fire itself, the masonry will warm the space long after the fire is burned out. The amount of wood that is stacked depends on the outside temperature. This fire is about 2/3 or the capacity the stove can handle. If it is really cold outside I burn two fires a day, one in the morning and one in the evening. The fire is lit with small kindling from the top. This allows the bigger logs on the bottom to slowly heat up and catch flame as the fire progresses, resulting in a very hot and smokeless fire that keeps the chimney clean.