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> >Small sticks will burn better than big  
> rounds. Round sticks do not burn as well as split wood because of  
> surface-to-flame percentage.
> 

Gene, are you not subsituting the word "better" for "faster".  Split dried 
wood does burn faster if that's what you want.  Tonight is a definate three 
dog 
night.  I have in the big stove a bed of hardwood coals.  Later I will put a 
few shards of coal on that and then stack the stove with green (sappy oozing 
green) maple logs about 10" in diamter.  Thus in my drafty, only partially 
dampable, stove, they will burn all night and give off plenty enough heat.

Faster isn't always better.


James