Thanks slim!!!! I got done oak I wanna test.... Trying to log the moisture this year so I can compare how the stove doors with different wood and moisture content
This pretty much boils down to how efficient your furnace is, if it seems you burn less wood with larger or green pieces it’s because it looses too much heat out of the stack, my old one as long as I could lift em they went in, the larger the pieces, the slower it burns and the stove has a chance to transfer more of the heat to the water before its lost up the stack. Tried not to burn wet wood though as all that water in it has to go somewhere, usually condenses on the door frame and exhaust weldment has been my experience. Condensation and mild steel equals a lot of corrosion eventually.
Have a friend that picked up either a prototype or a short run boiler as it has to be the most inefficient thing I’ve ever seen, he only burns green or wet wood, anything getting near dry and he cant chuck it in fast enough.