Decathlon mini wood burning stove.
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One can be forgiven for thinking that 15 kilos is not an experiment, it is a symptom of pyromania!
Did you get the pine, cat litter, non-scented ones?
It's a bit like 'which oil'...
Did you get the pine, cat litter, non-scented ones?
It's a bit like 'which oil'...
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I use pellets in our Ooni pizza oven and there’s a distinct difference in quality between some makes. When I originally bought the oven I bought expensive pellets and they worked well, I was running low so ordered a bag from Amazon (the ones I tried in the latest stove) and they were nowhere near as hot burning and didn’t last as well as the expensive ones hence me saying I’ll be trying the better ones in the stove.
These ones. 
Dunno anything about pellets so not a clue if they’re any good or not? 
Obviously NOT a pallet. That would be overkill.
Dunno anything about pellets so not a clue if they’re any good or not? Obviously NOT a pallet. That would be overkill.
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Without going out to the shed to check which ones I bought from Amazon I can’t really say but I’m sure it wasn’t the ones in that link.
You tried it with the different pellets yet?
My eco fire lighters arrived yesterday and my small bag of pellets arrives tomorrow. I’ll then have a go with them.
A true bikermate would at once drop whatever it is they are doing and go to the shed, no matter if it was raining. They would then take pictures and supply reliable web links to the items.
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A true bikermate would at once drop whatever it is they are doing and go to the shed, no matter if it was raining. They would then take pictures and supply reliable web links to the items.
It’s on the must do list but driving my wife to her hospital appointment took priority today and we don’t seem to have had much of a break in the rain recently.
Regain the five bikermate points deducted. Hopefully, Everton’s all be it brief return to some form has helped the healing, too.
I bought packs of Fire Dragon Clean & Green Gel blocks from an army surplus store.You tried it with the different pellets yet?
My eco fire lighters arrived yesterday and my small bag of pellets arrives tomorrow. I’ll then have a go with them.
Have about 10 packs which I guess were a couple of quid per pack.
They seem to work okay if that's your thing.
My experience of wood pellets on my house stove is they burn too fast and need to be dry or they crumble back to sawdust.
Pellets just arrived.
Should be enough in that bag for a few brews!
Now gonna get the cooker out and try it. I may bung some in my Firebox too if I think I have enough spare.
Should be enough in that bag for a few brews!
Now gonna get the cooker out and try it.
I may bung some in my Firebox too if I think I have enough spare.
Did they arrive by articulated lorry and get offloaded by a forklift?
No, just one 15kg bag to start with.
Just decanted 300g into 5 separate bags ready to go.
Seeing as it’s raining here again I’ll not be trying it out right now. I’ll put one bags worth into the burner along with an eco lighter thingy and see how long it burns for. I can then add more / reduce the 300g bags to something more ideally suited to a brew boil or a meal cook. Got two bags of ready sized kindling sorted too. 
I did look at the size of the pellets and the size of the holes in the cooker to see if I needed to get a bit of gauze to stop them falling through. So I set the cooker up, poured a 300g bag of pellets in, then lifted it up to see how many made it out the bottom. Not too bad. I gave it a couple of taps on the workbench but no more fell through. I reckon it’ll be ok without any smaller sized attachments. 
I gave it a couple of taps on the workbench but no more fell through. I reckon it’ll be ok without any smaller sized attachments.
Ok, not 100% convinced pellets are going to work in the Firebox. A lot fell out of the “feed” hole when poured in the top. I’ll still try them when it’s not raining though just to see. 
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The firebox is just that, a box in which you make a fire.
The wood gasification stove on the other hand is a different beast- see my picture (post 67) showing the horizontal flames coming out of the top holes.
That is the gasification burn.
Your firebox will not give such results- the reason I never bought those-
Quickest way to light pellets with with a blob of firedragon gel on top. Not bushcrafty but effective.
Next best thing- more traditional, fill the pellets in THEN build twigs on top and light those.
Best result, fill to about 2cm below the top round holes.
The wood gasification stove on the other hand is a different beast- see my picture (post 67) showing the horizontal flames coming out of the top holes.
That is the gasification burn.
Your firebox will not give such results- the reason I never bought those-
Quickest way to light pellets with with a blob of firedragon gel on top. Not bushcrafty but effective.
Next best thing- more traditional, fill the pellets in THEN build twigs on top and light those.
Best result, fill to about 2cm below the top round holes.
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Here’s your picture from post #67.
What horizontal flames, coming out of the top holes, are we meant to be looking at:
I bought the knock off copy for £13:58.
Seems OK, in as much as it’s round, not made of shiteonium and all the pieces are there, including the quite tidy little bag to hold it all in. All I need now is some wood, to give it a go. There is bound to be a skip around somewhere.
The only thing I can’t make out, is what this piece does:
