Here in the trenches one burns what is available. In my stoves we burn dried or green, soft wood or hard wood, twigs, limbs, knots, stumps, and everything in between. In extreme weather or when the fuel isn't the best of the best of .... we even put a lump of coal or two to get the fire going.
The result is that we use more wood. We are miles out in the forest and so if anyone doesn't like the particulates they can go sc**w themselves. But most of all none of the stoves are airtight and so they draw unlimited oxygen.
That coupled with the fact that the flues are in the MIDDLE of the house and so never get much cold, there are no condensates in the flue. When I clean the flues after a winter's use, tere is never more than a handful of fine ash, otherwise the chimneys are as clean as a whistle.
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