Osburn 3500 - PART A - OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE

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Installation and Operation Manual - Osburn 3500
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PART A - OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE .............................................................................. 7
1. Safery information ................................................................................................................... 7
2. General Information ................................................................................................................ 8
2.1 Specifications ..................................................................................................................... 8
2.2 Dimensions ........................................................................................................................ 9
2.2.1 Combustion Chamber Dimensions .............................................................................10
2.3 Zone Heating and How to Make it Work for You ...................................................................11
2.4 Osburn’s Commitment to You and the Environment .............................................................11
2.4.1 What is This Wood fire Made Of? ..............................................................................11
3. Fuel ........................................................................................................................................ 12
3.1 MATERIALS THAT SHOULD NOT BE BURNED ...................................................................12
3.2 How to Prepare or Buy Good Firewood ...............................................................................12
3.2.1 What is Good Firewood? ..........................................................................................12
3.2.2 Tree Species ............................................................................................................12
3.2.3 Log Length ..............................................................................................................13
3.2.4 Piece Size ................................................................................................................13
3.2.5 How to dry firewood .................................................................................................14
3.2.7 Compressed Wood Logs ..........................................................................................15
4. Operating Your Wood fire ..................................................................................................... 15
4.1 The Use of a Fire Screen ....................................................................................................16
4.2 Using a BlowerUsing a Blower ............................................................................................16
4.3 Your first fires ....................................................................................................................17
4.4 Lighting fires .....................................................................................................................17
4.4.1 Conventional fire starting ..........................................................................................17
4.4.2 The Top Down Fire ...................................................................................................18
4.4.3 Two Parallel Logs .....................................................................................................18
4.4.4 Using Fire Starters ....................................................................................................18
4.5 Maintaining Wood Fires ......................................................................................................18
4.5.1 General Advice .........................................................................................................18
4.5.2 Ash Removal ............................................................................................................19
4.5.3 Raking Charcoal .......................................................................................................19
4.5.4 Firing Each New Load Hot ........................................................................................20
4.5.5 Turning down the Air Supply ....................................................................................20
4.6 Building different fires for different needs .............................................................................20
4.6.1 Small Fires to Take the Chill Off the House ................................................................. 21