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Avoid overfiring by letting the combustor and secondaries do most of the work in the stove. Your stove is operating at
peak efficiency when the combustor is “engaged”and the secondaries are ignited, with the damper lever set to a low to
moderate setting, and the logs are glowing with secondary flames apparent. You will get the greatest amount of heat per
pound of wood when the stove is operated in this manner.
Daily Use
Your Survival Hybrid stove is well suited for continuous firing on a 24 hour a day basis. It can burn for 6-8 hours on
one load of wood, and will provide steady, even, heat for hours after the fire dies down. You need only disengage the
catalytic combustor when you kindle a fire, or reload the stove. Once the catalyst is ignited, it will continue to function as
long as there is smoke to burn, even when the surface temperature drops below 200°-250°.
Your connector pipe and chimney, or chimney pipe, should be inspected at regular intervals (not less than once every
two months). Examine the connector pipe for creosote, corrosion, loose seams, or excessive soot. Clean and replace as
necessary. The chimney or chimney pipe should be cleaned and checked by a certified specialist once a year. A small
mirror held at the cleanout door of a masonry chimney will be helpful. For a Class A prefabricated metal pipe, some
disassembly is usually required.
The Stove Top
The top lid of the Survival Hybrid makes for a perfect cook surface. The cook surface can be used to make soups,
stews, sauces, and even meals that require higher temperature cooking. The steel cooktop is not designed as a cooking
surface. Food should always be placed in a heavy duty Dutch oven or skillet.
The Fall-Away Tool
The “fall-away tool”, which comes with your stove, can be used to operate the door latch and the bypass lever. Simply
lift the door handle with the “fall-away tool” to safely open/close the loading door. The loading door and the door
handle are very hot, so use the tool provided. The “fall-away tool” conforms to UL requirements and is made so that if
you let go of it, it will “fall-away” from the stove and not become too hot to handle.
Firewood
Your Woodstock Soapstone Survival Hybrid Wood Stove is designed to burn dry, natural cordwood. Higher efficiency
and lower emissions generally result when burning air dried hardwoods, as compared to green, freshly cut hardwoods.
It is perfectly fine to burn soft woods in your stove as long as they are properly dried. Hardwoods are preferable because
they are typically denser than soft woods, giving them a higher fuel value per volume.
The moisture content of some trees may range as high as 50% – i.e., there is as much moisture in the tree as there is
wood. After wood has been cut to length, split and stacked for a year, the moisture content will usually range from 15-
25%. Splitting wood before it is stored will reduce drying time. Properly dried wood will produce more heat, reduce the
likelihood of water vapor condensing in the chimney, forming creosote, and result in less pollution entering the air. It is
safer and more efficient to burn dry hardwood than green or wet wood that smolders.
The advantages of burning dry wood are many. Dry wood is lighter, easier to split, and easier to carry. It is easier to
light, produces more heat, and generates less pollution. If you burn wet wood much of the energy generated by the fire
is used to drive moisture out of the wood, rather than producing heat for you. Dry wood will maintain the highest
combustor temperatures and burn the most efficiently. Creosote is much less likely to form if you burn dry wood.
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DO NOT OVERFIRE THIS WOOD STOVE!
ATTEMPTS TO ACHIEVE HEAT OUTPUT RATES THAT EXCEED STOVE DESIGN
SPECIFICATIONS CAN RESULT IN PERMANENT DAMAGE TO THE STOVE AND TO
THE CATALYTIC COMBUSTOR.
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