As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
As a poor orphan girl, here am I, always endeavoring to teach you something, and in this the Holy Ghost Inspired me before the great meltdown to make your life warm as most of you have no idea how to build a fire.
Fire, requires a chimney, and chimneys require draft. Draft is suction or you end up with a house full of smoke. Some chimneys are just old and bad, some are like mine in a great deal of pipe and a long way to a short chimney.
How this is solved is I create the Lame Cherry cardboard log to prime the chimney.
I take a box cutter or utility knife and open up a box and then roll it into a log. It will be loose, but that is what you want.
Now crumple newspapers and fill one end of your log.
Being non Darwin candidate, with the log in the paper end at the combustion chamber, you light the newspaper and shove it to the back of the hearth or stove burn box. and if there is a door, you close it.
Use only dry material as even slightly wet stuff smokes more as in humid garages.
It will be smokey, but the fire will begin creating heat, which will expand and push up the stove pipe and then into the chimney. The pipe will start to get hot enough to burn you, so be careful, but a warm pipe is evidence you have draft building.
The fire will burn more robust and if you choose to, you can line your burn chamber with sticks and sit our major logs on some sticks to elevate them, even though you have them sitting on a grill for ash to fall through.
That way you will not be opening up to feed or check the fire and gets puffs of smoke in the house. Odd thing is I like the smell and odder yet the smoke cleared up my sinus problems and did not compound it.
So that is your lesson in million dollar survival. NO ONE has ever published on the Lame Cherry torch logs, but soon it will be stolen and everyone will claim they came up with it.
Once again, another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
Nuff Said
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