how many are ready to give there stove a rest until next burning season?

RR30,
I have until the end of March before the steel gets cold..not sure I have enough wood to make until the end of March but thats the end of my burning season. Cheers!

Ian

I'm not expecting this winter to shorten any. I expect I'll be burning right into April. I expect more snow, too. I remember reading about some winters back in the 1800s where it snowed during the summer, wiped out crops, and proved deadly for some. I think earth is about the throw a few of those winters at us again. Cycles. Just time for some weird stuff to take place.

Although its my first season burning my own stove I feel April will be the last burn.

I'm here in south Pennsylvania, had an old timer for a neighbor years ago, he burned wood to heat his cabin, he said to me one morning "cheezus cripes, had to make fire in JUNE"

I've never forgotten that statement, and indeed, I KNOW I'll be makin' fire in April, some mornings in May, and maybe even in June to take the chill off!

I'm a veteran burner, coal first, now wood, and I'm not anywhere close to being ready to shut down for the summer.

ansehnlich1 said:

I'm here in south Pennsylvania, had an old timer for a neighbor years ago, he burned wood to heat his cabin, he said to me one morning "cheezus cripes, had to make fire in JUNE"

I've never forgotten that statement, and indeed, I KNOW I'll be makin' fire in April, some mornings in May, and maybe even in June to take the chill off!

I'm a veteran burner, coal first, now wood, and I'm not anywhere close to being ready to shut down for the summer.

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I'm with you, I will make fires till I need no more heat. Last year I think we had a cold wet spring.

It'll be another solid month and a half for us and even after that there will be occasional fires "to take the chill off".

Usually burn through Mother's Day here.

i just burn at nights and weekends and i will be shutting down in a couple of weeks as temps are going up in the 50"s next week.

i go to may but around now its nights and weekends mostly looks like 50s here this weekend but then cold again. its been a great winter keep the cold and snow coming i love spring snows.

I would like to stop but I still have that burning desire to continue to watch the oil man drive by. I figure I will be burning until April.

My first burning year and ran out of any wood resembling seasoned. I have went back to the oilman fro the remainder of this season. I sure do miss the heat from the stove though. Next season I should have more then enough wood. Usually aroung the end of MArch I take the Harley out for the first ride of the season. Hope it warms up fast but I am looking at over a foot of snow still on the ground here. Been in the 40's last few days.

Last year pretty sure we were was still burning in late May...dunno for sure. Of coarse not every day but if it's cold enough to fire up our back up 62° we'll usually start a fire.

I will be burning till mid April probably, just evening and weekend fires to take the chill off. But I'm not oppsed to lighting up at any time to take the chill off. LAst August we had to light a fire one night when it got down to 45 degrees on evening and was wet and nasty the next day.

Nah . . . not me. I'm looking forward to Spring, sure . . . ATVing, cutting more wood, getting outside, etc. . . . but just last night I turned off the TV, watched the fire, waxed about the fire to my wife and fell asleep in front of the fire before my wife woke me up to tell me to go to bed. I'm still loving the whole experience . . . and in fact . . . I kind of like this time of year . . . when the temps are right at the freezing mark or a bit above or below I get some very long burns and can let the coals die down to almost nothing so it really saves the wood.

And for the record, last year I actually had a fire going on the 4th of July . . . at the request of my wife . . . but then again last summer was a bust . . . cold, damp and rainy.

I have been ready to stop burning! I am now down to my not as seasoned wood that didn't get covered, I was not as prepared as I should have been for a winter this hard.

This upcoming weekend starts the process over for me, back out chopping down trees at the farm and bring them back to the house to split, if it wasn't for the snow I would have already started doing this a month ago.

I am going to keep the fire going until I have no more wood that will burn, I am guessing mid-April.

Every year goes like this: A few small fires on those cool nights in summer (except last summer we even had fire in the stove day and night for the weekend after the 4th of July, can never remember that happening before), then sometime in September it becomes every night. By the end of October it's day and night. In April there are a few daytimes when I can let it go cold. More of those days in May, then the last fire of the official season is almost always on Memorial Day Weekend.

Still cold down here......looks to warm up next week......I have maybe 10 nights of dry wood left then will have to shut her down ready or not.

I have right at 3 cords split and stacked already for next year, hope to have 5 put away by the end of spring. I WILL GET AHEAD :cheese: AND VOW TO NEVER RUN OUT AGAIN :exclaim:

It might appear that Spring is here, including the pair of bluebirds that finally returned here yesterday but old man Winter won't give up this easy.

On a normal year we figure on stopping burning sometime in May. Last year it was June and we could have stood a fire once or twice after that. So, the stove won't get cleaned just yet around here nor will the shovel and snow blade get put away. I still have the snow blade on and the shovel is next to the porch.

It's over for the boiler ( ran out of fully seasoned wood ) .

Nope, not quite ready here. Last year was a different story as wood was my sole heat source, but since we're only doing nights and weekends this year I'm in no hurry to let it rest for six months.
We'll have a fire at night until it's warm enough to have the windows open, likely into early May at least. I am itching to get out in the garage and "play" with my projects as well as take the Charger out for a blast though. For everything there is a season........

Al