volcano stove

[spiritwalker]

i was playing with my volcano stove in the garden last night (havent used it out and about yet) first time i used a trangia burner which was good second time i used hexamine again good recently tried the triad stove which was crap the stove runs out of juice before the water boils. Anyways back on track i was using it how its meant to be used last night i have a nice dry wood store which i use for my wood burner so the twigs i used were bone dry. I used a little birch bark twigs and a pine cone to light up which took a spark and got going no bother but the amount of smoke produced at start up was horrific any ideas why? i had to put it out as i would have smoked the neighbours out. Any ideas / tips to get it smokeless or relatively smokeless

 

[drewdunnrespect]

yes try not to use the pine cone cos i was told they are dead smokey but how true this is i dont know because i have never had that problem with pine cones when i have used them so make of that what you will drew

 

[drewdunnrespect]

ps sorry for the confusion

 

[spiritwalker]

to be honest the pine cone hadn't caught it was mainly the birch bark and twigs there was no greenwood perhaps it was just the start up maybe if i left it to get going more it would have died back. Ill have another go when the neighbours haven't got the washing out