Steve Firth wrote:
Christina Websell wrote:

I would say be very careful, I would not describe it as "fine" for a
woodburner if you have a sliding damper on the front of your stove. It will
spit out of it across the room, in my experience.

I burn leylandii in a wood burner without problems. The woodburner has a
sliding damper on the front. Since the damper is within an anclosure
that is made of the same steel as the woodburner it is hard to see how
it could be "spit out of it across the room".

I tried conifer wood once, I'm glad I was not out for a few hours, it
sparked out from the tiny hole in the damper and set my carpet on fire when
I was upstairs. Never again.

Yew is a conifer.

I suppose it might be...at that.

I burn lots of coniferous stuff. builidng wopod scraps, douglas fir,
scots pine, odd bits of spruce. once dry its not the worst spitter in
the world by a long chalk. Willow and polar just as bad if not worse.

"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
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I burn lots of coniferous stuff. builidng wopod scraps, douglas fir, scots
pine, odd bits of spruce. once dry its not the worst spitter in the world
by a long chalk. Willow and polar just as bad if not worse.

Yes - I have had trouble with polar as well.
Not a lot of heat comes out in my experience (:-(

Regards
Pete (:-)

"Martin" wrote in message
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On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:53:54 -0000, "Pete"
wrote:



"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
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I burn lots of coniferous stuff. builidng wopod scraps, douglas fir,
scots
pine, odd bits of spruce. once dry its not the worst spitter in the
world
by a long chalk. Willow and polar just as bad if not worse.

Yes - I have had trouble with polar as well.
Not a lot of heat comes out in my experience (:-(

Despite GW?

There is quite a bit of hot air talked in gardeners world - I'll grant you
!
Pete