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After 22 years of cutting/splitting/stacking/burning about 5 cords of firewood every year, I generally use a long lighter to get it going along with some newspaper under some lifted logs.
This time of year, the woodburner never goes out, and will pick right back up with a pull of the air control and opening the pipe damper......within a minute, on new logs on that bed of coals, you have a firey inferno threatening to cause a chimney fire unless dampened back down. We have heated our 2000 sq ft house exclusively with wood for the last 10 years, with only an inefficient propane boiler to supplement the wood stove before it finally died about 10 years ago.
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