Dadant or Thorne Empire

[TonyC]

Am I alone in lighting a piece of Thornes shredded cardboard filler with a blowtorch?

2 or 3 tightly compressed balls of the same shredded cardboard on top burn for hours.

Often I top this off with the dried autumn cuttings from lavender. I have a romantic notion that the bees prefer it - and of course that is nonsense, but the smoke does smell nice for a while. However I have wondered whether topping the smoker fuel with thyme might have a beneficial effect.

 

[rolande]

One of those internet curiosities which probably isn't too relevant to this thread but is nevertheless quite interesting, a page from Wyatt Mangum's website discussing smokers with thermal imaging, he did actually use dadant smokers for the demonstrations.

https://www.tbhsbywam.com/hot-bee-smokers/