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Low & Overnight Burning
These instructions are intended as a guide to operating your wood stove. Your timing and final damper settings will
vary depending on chimney draft, type of wood, moisture content of the wood and size of the splits. The Survival
Hybrid Wood Stove is simply designed and intended to be user friendly, but it will take some practice to understand
how the stove works best for you.
1) Before opening the loading door, open the bypass damper and the air control damper. Wait a minute or so, before
slowly opening the loading door, allowing a strong draft and prevent smoke from spilling into the room.
2) Wearing stove gloves, open the loading door and stir up the hot coals with a poker or rake. If necessary, excess ash
should be removed before reloading the firebox. Rake the hot coals back and forth in the firebox to allow the loose
ash to fall through the center grate into the ash pan. Dispose of the ash properly.
NEVER PUT AN ASH CONTAINER ON A COMBUSTIBLE SURFACE, LIKE A WOOD FLOOR.
3) Place several small splits on top of the hot coals and allow them to ignite.
4) Load the firebox to capacity leaving roughly 2” of space for secondary
combustion (stainless steel, perforated ceiling), with a mix of larger and
smaller split pieces of wood. Close the loading door.
5) Allow the temperature on the surface of single wall pipe or stove top to come
back up to 200°-250°, this may only take 5-15 minutes depending on the
dryness of the wood and draft conditions.
6) Adjust the Air Control Damper to a low setting, moving it to the left.
7) Close the Bypass Damper.
Burning for Higher Heat Output
These instructions are intended as a guide to operating your wood stove. Your timing and final damper settings will
vary depending on chimney draft, type of wood, moisture content of the wood, and size of the splits. The Survival
Hybrid Wood Stove is simply designed and intended to be user friendly, but it will take some practice to understand
how the stove works best for you.
1) Before opening the loading door, open the bypass damper and the air control damper. Wait a minute or so, before
slowly opening the loading door, allowing a strong draft and prevent smoke from spilling into the room.
2) Open the load door and and stir up the coals and remove excess ash as needed.
3) Place several small splits on top of the hot coals and allow them to ignite.
4) Load the firebox to capacity leaving about a 2”space for secondary
combustion (stainless steel, perforated ceiling), with a mix of larger and
smaller splits. Close the loading door.
5) Allow the temperature on the surface of single wall pipe or stove top to come
back up to 200°-250°. Lower the Combustion Air Control down to 1/2 open.
6) Adjust the Air Control Damper to roughly 1/2 open.
7) Close the Bypass Damper by lowering the lever until it stops.
8) You should see the flames from secondary combustion at the top of the firebox becoming more active.
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DO NOT BURN THE STOVE WITH THE AIR DAMPER FULLY OPEN FOR EXTENDED PERIODS. USE THE FULL
OPEN POSITION TO KINDLE A FIRE, TO RELOAD THE FIREBOX, OR WHEN HIGH HEAT IS NEEED.
NEVER BUILD A ROARING FIRE IN A COLD STOVE. IT TAKES AT LEAST 30 MINUTES TO HEAT THE INNER
FIREBRICK WALLS OF THE SURVIVAL HYBRID. ATTEMPTS TO REACH HIGH TEMPERATURES VERY QUICKLY
COULD RESULT IN DAMAGE TO THE STEEL PARTS.
Air combustion set to 1/2 open
Low combustion air setting
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