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HANDLING THE COOKER OPERATION
Start a fire with a moderate flame in order to avoid thermal shocks.
The following amounts of wood are inserted only after the previous volume burn.
Do not allow that ashes and unburned accumulate on the grid and to ta pit that way. Clean
the grid.
Open the door slowly and carefully, allowing that way equalization of pressure in the firebox
and in the room, otherwise itmight cause the smoke in the room.
The cooker is designed and made for use with firebox door constantly closed, except during
refueling. Do not open the door with no need.
The wood must be a maximum of 20% moisture content for maximum fire effect. Otherwise
the tar gets separated which with water steam may crate creosite. If that happens in some
bigger quantitiy, it may lead to a chimney fire. You will most easily recognize chimney fire by:
the characteristic sound that comes out of the chimney like loud roaring, visible flames
coming out of the chimney, high ambient temperatures of surrounding walls and the
characteristic smell of burning.
If there comes to the fire do the following:
• Immediately call the fire squad
• muffle oxygen supply to the chimney and turn off the cooker
• Do not insert anything into the chimney and make sure that the fire does not spread to the
wooden construction or other combustible materials in its nearby.
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DO NOT pour water into the cooker or chimney
• A fire in the chimney can be extinct only with dry powder
• Water can extinguish only a surrounding material
• Do not cool the surrounding walls with water
Before the second charging, clean the rost grid in order to provide the fresh air supply.
Regularly clean the ash tray making sure that there is always enough place for ashes.
The furnace is designed to operate in periodic mode. To maintain the required nominal power,
combustion chamber is periodically filled with prestabled amount of fuel.
Furnace is not designed to operate in continuous mode of heating or in accumulating
temperature mode.
