Try to make sure to burn dry wood.
Have a hot fire to keep the chimney clean.
Don't burn garbage......
Scrub the chimney with a metal flue brush.
I would much rather burn oak.
Also, I may be able to use this in firing a "Wood fired Kiln"
We do that around here, and I am tempted to use it for cone 10 firing.
Why not!
I do have pine to which I really do not like to use.
Bull Pine.
Or Coastal Pine.
It is very soft wood, burns hot, and quick. Not much like oak....
john

"Mike Marlow" wrote in message
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jloomis wrote:

We live in a transitional forest of Oak, Fir, Madrone, Redwood, etc.
I try to burn oak when I can, and this is just what is there.
Fir and some oak.
john


Sorry - I use the term "Pine" in a generic sense, since I really don't know
enough about the various types of conifers to properly call them out by
name. We don't have much oak around here, so I'd have to look hard to
recognize a chunk of it if it were laying in front of me. So - you do burn
the fir? How do you deal with the creosote issues?

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-Mike-