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I normally use hessian sacking as a smoker fuel. When I started
beekeeping I was advised that when I finished for the day I should stuff
the smoker orifices with grass to stifle the airflow and leave the the
smoker on its side until extinguished. This has the effect that the
part-burnt hessian (or other fuel for that matter) remains as a fine
carbon rather than burning away to ash. This then lights easily the
next time I use it. Relighting is usually a very undramatic affair with
little flame, I just get a bit smouldering and puff away 'til I get the
smoke volume I want.
The variety of materials used for smoker fuel is pretty wide. Various
mixes of woodland waste seem popular: pine needles; pine cones; bark,
some mushrooms when dried; grass; leaves (including tobacco and
marijuana); corrugated cardboard. I guess if its around, burns, smokes
and doesn't kill the bees people use it.
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Gordon Scott [log in to unmask] 100332,3310 on CompuServe
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Beekeeper, Kendo Sandan, sometime sailor.
Basingstoke, Hampshire, RG22 5HP, UK
Pain lasts but a moment, it is the fear of pain that deadens the heart.
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