bigwheel wrote:Well sure it would influence a lot of things to some degree. Main influence I'm looking for in a log burner is to keep a clean burning fire and cracking the firebox door helps a bunch in that regard...depending on how good are your intakes and positioning of the fire grate of course. Prob wouldnt need to do it on a Klose for example but cant hardly get away from the practice on a pit with marginal intakes...improperly constructed or placed fire grate etc.
bigwheel
ok, gotcha.....thought you were kiddin a bit as I had visions of a stick fire in OGB's smoker with 2 inches of door open.....thinkin she'd be generating a fair amount of heat....small amount of stick/lotsa air, gotcha.
dj