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[Mr. Maple]

   No longer getting the air flow up between the bricks, just from the front. my Father still puts wood in every time he walks by like the old Empyre stove, so wood isn't burning down completely to powder like it should.In the cold snap we just went through, furnace was struggling to keep up at times, didn't get the burn time that we should have overnight, but that may also have been from not a hot enough fire with the bricks "plugged". I bent a 3/8 threaded rod to work like a poker underneath the bricks to open up between them, works somewhat, anything else can be done other than letting the fire go out and shovelling ash out? I also try to poke ash down through from above with a potato fork, but gets pretty hot on the hands in the chamber, even with only a few coals there.

[Joks79]

Lock the door to keep him out?

[Sloppy_Snood]

Mr. Maple,

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