Wood burning from the top down ...

[Stubby]

i managed to get a dead silver birch to burn from the top down, took 2 days but was quite impressive, well i say burn smoulder, or is this not what you meant...

 

Sorry no , I meant in a stove .

[Marsh Monkey]

kinda figured but we were quite impressed with it on site not bad as the fire was about 25m away

[kev7937]

kinda figured but we were quite impressed with it on site not bad as the fire was about 25m away

 

Took down a dead birch many years ago, burnt the brush onsite and took the log away, I cant remember how we noticed but had to stop half way back to put the back of the truck out.

[Fiskar]

impressed with this Swiss burning method that was pointed out in another thread on this forum.

I have used it 3 weeks tops and am at 85% fire start sucess but getting better all the time. Cannot say thanks enough to a fellow poster for pointing it out. It saves me a huge amoount of fire setting time and even other family members can start the fire reliably. Have used paper only once to move things along quicker.

[Stubby]

impressed with this Swiss burning method that was pointed out in another thread on this forum.

I have used it 3 weeks tops and am at 85% fire start sucess but getting better all the time. Cannot say thanks enough to a fellow poster for pointing it out. It saves me a huge amoount of fire setting time and even other family members can start the fire reliably. Have used paper only once to move things along quicker.

 

Thats good to hear . Thing is I get 100% success lighting the fire the " old English " way

[woodrascal]

I really think it depends on what type of stove you use. Some of ours work very well using the top down method - they tend to be the ones with bigger, deeper fireboxes. Try the same method in a different stove and it just doesn't work as well...

[headgroundsman]

Just stacked my fire box to the limit with nice dry hardwood. Lit it at the top and it is burning nicely. Will let you know later what I think