No matter how experienced you are with wood burners, every day can be a school day! About a year ago, we have come across something very peculiar when our showroom display HWAM 4640C wood burning stove was burning out of control shortly after refueling. This was out of the ordinary, as we have always stocked up on kiln dried wood from a local supplier for many years without any issue and always check the moisture content of our logs. We chalked it up as a one time strange occurance and didn't think any of it. Until... it happened a second time! This time, we had the second part of the log and were able to figure out what was causing the issue... As you can see in the photo above, the log had an abnormally high content of sap which would have been undetected had we not split it beforehand. On the outisde, it seemed unassuming however the weight of the log was a giveaway that something was not quite right. The woodman informed us that if a tree is cut late winter, he thi...
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