All good stuff above- I'm too much of an old dog for new tricks... experts sure say alot of things- some I listen too some I don't- why? Experience has taught me more than any experts theories... Experts say wake a new baby every 3 hours for feeding, even if it is asleep- guess they never tried going 3 months with no sleep- or fed a half asleep cranky baby...
Personally I could care less about what these so called experts say- great you can control a fire from the draft- I've done that. Problem is none of these guys
go out in the woods and cut their own wood . They get it delivered. So they can go ahead and load that stove up chock full and let it roar all night. Yes you can cut the the air and burn that wood from one end of the stove to the other- you'll get hardly heat out of it, and you'll burn just as much wood as letting it roar. I been there and done that experience has taught me you use too much wood you do however make really good charcoal. I've heated a two story 2500 sq,ft. farm house using two wood stoves- with 2 cords dry and 3 ricks green. In a time span from october to april.
I'll bet you my bus full of beer- give me a cord of dry hard wood, with one rick of in it green. I'll make it last three times longer with a draft/ damper system than any airtight fancy over elaborate stove out there.
I'm not trying to start a war here mearly giving years of advice- if you dont want it fine- ignore me. Or hop over to
http://www.skoolie.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=5404 this thread and douse me with gasline- I'll be there with my blow torch lit...