I have rhapsodized before about this lovely stove which does yeoman's duty in colder weather in heating our 'entrance way' area (serving as a 'mud-room' as they would say in New England) for this later add-on to our old log house - logs cut and hand-hewn with an adze by a Finnish immigrant back in the early 1900s - was ill designed to be heated from the main part of the house. The smoke-burning catalyst in the upper-middle of the stove, in general does a great job in squeezing the last bit of combustion from the smoke so that in looking up at the chimney outside the house all one can see is rising heat waves rather than the usual billowing smoke that accompanies a burning wood fire.
[to be complete open though, there are times when condition of wood, stove temperature, and just general gremlin like atmospheric conditions that the catalyst does not work well and the fire smolders and I have to open the by-pass flue and let the fire gradually build - some times for several hours - to a hotter temperature in order for the catalyst to work efficiently when I divert the damper back]
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