Wood Stove Manual - Troubadour

May your fire be hot, your flue be clean, and your home sing with the warmth of a thousand forgotten suns.

You would not ask a troubadour to play a heavy metal riff on a lute. Likewise, do not feed this stove green pine or wet oak. —oak, hickory, or maple—split and dried for at least one summer. The moisture content must be below 20%. Wet wood produces not heat, but creosote: the tar of a poorly sung ballad. It will coat your flue, dampen your spirits, and invite chimney fires. Troubadour Wood Stove Manual

So go now. Split your wood. Check your draft. Strike the match. May your fire be hot, your flue be