How late in the season have you burned??????

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GAMMA RAY

GAMMA RAY

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I am curious to see how late in the season all of you guys have burned....Let's see who wins......Spill it burners....June....July????
Spill it....I call early June....I know there are some die hards out there....
No fibbers....
By the way that pill bottle on top of my parrot's head is really there...he can balance it on top of his head...My husband said I was stupid for putting that as my avatar but he really sits and keeps it on his head...I can't tell you what else he does with it.....use your imagination...men.....he is a boy bird...
 
I burned a woodstove the first week in July. Of course, it was in a cabin in Northwest Territories, it stayed light all through the night, and the lake was still iced over... Does that still count?
 
I think it counts...in my opinion...
 
August in 2006 when I installed the chimney liners. To test them out.
 
When I get cold I burn wood.Probably mid June here.
 
BB, I have to say that when WarminRi started the thread put a face to the personalities....you are quite the looker......very John Claud Van Dam (wrong spelling)..even if the last ten years have not been good to ya...your a hottie!!! I was looming at that time then I decided to just put a pic on my page for the hell of it...didn't know none of you burners put your pics up.......
 
We were burning occasionally last Juneuary.
 
the neighbors at the lake are snow birds. i don't think there is a morning that they don't have a fire going, during all summer long. one fourth of july, we had our winter jackets on to watch the fireworks display. there will be the occasional morning fire during late may or early june, and then they start again sometimes in aug...but full time firing stops in may for sure. and of course, you have to have the fire pit going in the evenings whenever we're at the lake (every chance) right?
 
I am going to do the fire pit thing this year........
 
GAMMA RAY said:
I am going to do the fire pit thing this year........
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Set some uglies aside for the fire pit. If you are like me I have a damn hard time throwing a beautiful piece of seasoned firewood onto a firepit even though I have plenty.

I stop burning May 1 and will start burning Oct 1. I love burning and love winter but would somehow find it depressing if I needed to burn more than 7 mo's per year. (I will occasionally have a quick fire in May or Sept, but not often)

pen
 
Mid June is certainly a possibility around here especially if we get a few rainy days in a row and the house gets that damp feeling.
 
Hey pen, what goodies have you made on the woodstove lately?? Do share....
 
We usually burn 24/7 into May.
 
Hmm, I think 2 years ago we burned into the first week of June. Not 24/7 though.
GAMMA, 'ya gotta' get the fire pit going. I use ours whenever it's not too windy or dry, but several times during the summer, you can find me there.
It was kinda small when we moved in, but the last 2 years we collected large stones/rocks to ring the pit. It's now about 6' diameter, and I'd like to make it bigger.
 
I'll have nightly fires til sometime in May just to take the chill out and have a nice warm house in the morning.

I agree with Pen about the fire pit. I only put scrap wood, tree prunings, pallets and uglies in it. My cord wood is for the house. Weird logic I know but...........
 
we're in southern ontario and the year before last we burnt once a week all summer long to take the dampness out of the house.
 
Every month in the year.
At least a couple this past July, it was a miserable excuse for a summer.
 
We also have a Toyo oil fired stove set at 64, it has turned on every month of the year.
I hate to hear it, I drown the sound with fire, makes no matter what the month.
 
Last winter being unusually long,cold & miserable I started a few fires the last week of April.Mainly to take the chill off when I got home after working outside in 45 degrees with a stiff wind & light rain/fog.Normally I'm pretty much done 2-3 weeks earlier.
 
GAMMA RAY said:
Hey pen, what goodies have you made on the woodstove lately?? Do share....
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Nothing but salt baked potatoes lately.

I have a box of kosher salt that I only use for baking on (literally on). I place a good layer (1 inch) in on the bottom of my dutch oven.

If the stove is kicking I can bake them right on the top, if things are died right down I push the coals around (damn that ash pan plug) and do them inside the stove.

Heat the dutch oven and salt, add clean potatoes and bake turning every 10 - 15 minutes (put the lid on the dutch oven) depending on how hot the dutch oven is.

Let cool and put salt back into the box and reuse another day.

Baking them on salt makes a nice crisp skin.

I like the product of this method better than wrapping w/ foil and baking in the stove.

pen
 
Maybe sometime mid-May.

Up to then the last bunch of fires will just be a few sticks of willow in the mornings. There enough take the chill out of the house. By 10-1100am it'll be 70* and you kind of want the fire out by then anyway.
 
Burned a couple of fires at night in June last year, it was damp & rainy & down to 55F ish at night. I wasn't taking it lightly.


The PE was installed the first Tuesday in September of '08. Burned a fire that night. I had to, it was rainy & thundering & stuff. Really %-P
 
I'd say till it gets in the mid 40s, so May time frame.

Gets to the point where it makes more sense to run the boiler for a bit to get the chill out of the air instead of 2 logs in the stove and it being 120* in the house.

r dubya last summer was quite nice up here. Did get alot of rain, but it was rain that you could work outside and not get soaked by the end of the day so it wasn't too bad. Did make mowing the grass a bit of a challenge though. I planted my lawn in May and by September I was having to mow it every 3-4 days!
 
We do a lot weekend fire pit burns. I have a big pile of punk trees laying on the ground that I sun dry. The thing is all this is good sholder season wood, You hate to waist anything thats burnable in the stove. After burning for some years you figure out is just about anything that has a solid core can be dryed and burned in the stove.

We run the stove right into the cool clear June nights.
 
We pretty much shut'er down in late April, with the occasional fire in May. We start back up in mid-late October.
In the summer, we use the firepit outside occasionally.
 
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