Loading And Starting The Fire - Air Burners T-300 Operating Manual

T-300
Air Curtain Trench Burner with Perkins 404D.22T or Kubota V2403-TE Engine

LOADING AND STARTING THE FIRE

THE GOALS IN STARTING A T-SERIES UNIT ARE:
To achieve an even fire across the length of the pit.
To start the fire from the bottom of the initial pile.
To build a hot base fire.
There are two methods for lighting the unit: a cold start and a hot start. A cold start
means the pit is clean and has no hot coals left from a previous burn. A hot start uses
heat from the coals of the previous days burn.
PRE-CHECK
Unit pre-checks should be complete and the AIR should be off but the engine can be
running to bring it up to operating temperature.
LOADING
Load your most burnable material (materials from the "Good Wood" pile as discussed
in the previous section) which is the smaller, dryer and cleaner wood, into the pit to a
level of about half way up. Ensure the entire bottom area of the pit is covered. Next
load some of your heavier materials. Do not load higher than the manifold.
DANGER: Do not
unexpectedly and cause injury or death.
LIGHT-OFF, changing from darker wispy smoke of Diesel to white smoke from burning wood.
use an accelerant for a
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, as it may ignite
(Vers. 08.16)