[Stoves] Cutting wood down to size for batch-fueled stoves.

[Lanny Henson]

Cutting wood down to size for batch-fueled stoves.

I am working on a batch-fueled residential size wood fired cooking stove, 
and I have some questions about fuel size, mostly the maximum length of the 
wood to fit in the batch.

Wood is "cut' one direction and "split" the other direction, so if the wood 
is cut to the right length,  it can be easy to split down to the size/mass 
for the stove.

So what should the maximum length of wood be for my batch-fueled residential 
stove.



I know there has been some complaints about cutting wood down to the small 
size necessary for batch-fueled stoves,  so the longer the pieces a stove 
will burn, the better. This is one area where stick burning stoves have an 
advantage over batch-fueled stoves, that is with fuel length issues.



So what would be a minimum length we can ask people to cut their wood?

What is the maximum length that a batch-fueled household stove should burn?



These questions are only about the length of the wood not the mass of the 
pieces, since wood "cut" in short lengths is very easy to "split" down to 
the right mass for a particular stove.

Lanny Henson