<div>Hi Crispin,</div><div><br></div><div>It would be a cross draft, with the preheated primary air coming down through the 4, approximately 1" pipes, that enter a few inches from the base. The pipes have a right angle and I mentioned to Bruce Wolfe, who was just starting USA Sedore, that the 4 pipes would be easier to clean, if the right angle was eliminated. He agreed and said it would also be cheaper, so may have changed that. My 4 pipes must be partly or completely plugged, in that it is always run wide open and we usually have a nail or large bolt holding the feed door partly open, making it a down draft. It has an 18' straight stack, with insulated stainless on the outside, so draws well.</div>
<div><br></div><div>There is no grate, just a few fingers protruding half way down, into the approx. 3+" gap across the width of the floor of the firebox. It couldn't be much simpler or efficient, yet all my long gone farmer neighbors, heated with the most in efficient wood stoves and furnaces, often with large, uninsulated homes. </div>
<div>Dick</div><div><br></div>Dick Gallien <br>22501 East Burns Valley Road<br>Winona MN 55987<br><a href="mailto:dickgallien@gmail.com">dickgallien@gmail.com</a> [507]454-3126<br><a href="http://www.thefarm.winona-mn.us">www.thefarm.winona-mn.us</a><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Crispin Pemberton-Pigott <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:crispinpigott@gmail.com">crispinpigott@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div lang="EN-CA" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Dear Dick</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">That is a really big throat! Wow. That was one huge chunk of wood it swallowed!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">As far as I can tell from you description it is a downdraft stove. Is that correct? Is there a grate with the flame coming through the bottom, or an opening at the back with the flame going sideways out the back? In that case it is a Crossdraft stove with the primary air coming in from the front and passing through the fuel to the back.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Perhaps you can comment.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Much appreciated the video…</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Crispin</span></p><div class="im"><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">>>>></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
</p><div><p class="MsoNormal">This is the 4th or 5th winter I've had this Sedore. The creosote is from the green chips and having the stack sections in backwards. I've never had to clean the chimney. Any stack creosote falls directly into the inferno. Have heated only with wood, for over 50 years. Dick </p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rb83h6kts7o" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rb83h6kts7o</a></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
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