MANAGING OPERATION OF THE COOKER
Start firing up with moderate fire in terms of avoiding thermal shocks.
Following quantity of woods is to be inserted only when previous quantity gets
burned.
Do not allow clogging of the grid with ashes and unburned fuel. Clean the grid.
Open the door slowly and carefully, not abruptly, enabling equalization of pressures
in the firebox and room, otherwise, it may cause occurrence of smoke in the room.
Cooker is designed and provided for operation with constantly closed firebox door,
except during filling with fuel. Do not open door unnecessarily.
Wood must be with maximal 20% humidity for maximal burning performance.
Otherwise, tar and gases occurs which create creosote with water vapor. If creosote
occurs in larger quantity, fire may occur in the chimney.
Fire in the chimney will be easily recognized as follows: characteristic sound which
comes from the chimney like loud hoot, visible flame which comes from chimney,
high temperature of surrounding walls and characteristic smell of flare.
If fire occurs, take following steps:
Immediately call fire department
Suppress oxygen inflow into the chimney and turn off the cooker
Do not put anything in chimney and look after fire not to extend to the wooden
construction or some other combustible material in vicinity.
NEVER extinguish the chimney with water or to pour water in the cooker
Fire in the chimney may be extinguished only with the device with dry powder
Water may be used only for surrounding materials
Do not cool surrounding walls with water
Prior to second filling, clean the grid with auxiliary tools to avoid clogging of fresh air
intake.Regularly clean ashtray, taking care top leave enough space for the ash. For
maintenance of necessary nominal power, firebox periodically is to be filled with
indicated amount of fuel.
Cooker is not intende to work in the mode of continuing burning or heat
accumulation.
Agility of combustion, as well as amount of heat by the cooker, depend on the
amount of primary combustion air which is to be brought into the area below the grid.
Regulation of primary air amount is achieved automatically via draft regulator
Rathgeber
(fig. 7).
