To The Folks Shutting Down For Summer

This is usually our slow season and we've had a TON of interest in wood stoves and inserts. Gas/Heating oil prices are having an impact on everything.

I think I'll put my head in the door from time to time just to see how quiet it gets in the summer.
Is the stove mfg industry like others that are busiest in the off season?

cmonSTART said:

This is usually our slow season and we've had a TON of interest in wood stoves and inserts. Gas/Heating oil prices are having an impact on everything.

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Glad to be of help- we'll see you on Friday...

Me thinks there will be more traffic sooner than later.

Hang on to your hats, boyz, It's gonna be a bumpy ride

Here a graph for Natural Gas Prices for the last year. You can change the dates...........


http://futures.tradingcharts.com/historical/NG_/2011/0/continuous.html


Robert

BrotherBart said:

I know that a lot of you are off and running for things not involving burning stuff

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True, but I'll definitely be involved in cutting, splitting, stacking and rebuilding stuff.
See y'all in the Wood Shed.

Thanks. This thread just ensured one more cold snap jinx for CNY. We aint out of the woods yet!

I'm sure I'll be around all summer just not checking the forums as frequently as I used to. We haven't had to light a fire in 2 weeks and it was 77° in the house last night with all the windows open. Now that I said that I'm sure we will get a cold snap . Seeing as this was my first year on this forum it was good to get to know quite a few people and have someone to discuss my wood burning obsession with and I look forward to meeting even more people next year. Hope everyone has a good summer!

WHAT? Folks actually can survive without checking in at hearth.com at least once in 72 hours? Say it ain't so . . . lots of other activities and projects coming up for me this spring and summer (finish the kitchen renovation -- it's going quite well by the way -- loving my cabinets, ATV trips with the ATV Club, geocaching, camping, cutting wood, fixing septic system, etc.), but the friends I've made here at hearth.com keep me checking in at this site even in the dead of summer when it's 90+ degrees outside . . . which is a bit strange since I have checked the forum right after a dip in the pool . . . then again a few years back I actually had a fire in the woodstove on July 3rd (or maybe it was July 2nd) since it was an unusually cold and rainy summer.

Incidentally . . . still burning here in Maine . . . although my overnight fire kept the place warm enough that I didn't light up a fire this morning.

I'm not going anywhere.....you buggerz will just have to put me on your ignore member list... :cheese: thanks to all for helping me thru my first season, :kiss:

GAMMA RAY said:

I'm not going anywhere.....you buggerz will just have to put me on your ignore member list... :cheese: thanks to all for helping me thru my first season, :kiss:

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Sorry Gamma . . . I only have put one member in the "ignore" list . . . it just reached the point where the drivl he ritten wuz had too rd & offen not maken sensical two me.

Please come back as I know I'm gonna have lots more questions, not to mention I'm gonna want to show off the goods in a few months. First the slate fire pad and then the stove itself. I'm figuring mid-July for my install timing which will work out well for the first firing to have the windows open and get the cured paint smell out of the house.

BTW, it's not just gas and oil. it's also electric too. We moved into our house in August of last year which has a heat pump and electric backup heating. This was a cold winter for SW Ohio with long cold spells and no warm-up. Our January heating bill was close to $600 and the rest of them weren't much better. Soooo, that brings us to today and one of my new internet homes....hearth.com.

Looking forward to telling everyone how hot my Summit gets with the new chimney this fall.

I'll do my best to hang around. Hardly a day goes by without at least looking at some posts.

I have to stare at my brand new Hampton ALL SUMMER without a fire in it, so I am sure that will remind me to check in once in a while.

i hate break-ups and good-byes....maybe i'll just stay put

I'm still burning every day in my shop stove. I spend so little time in the house these days, that the Lopi hasn't been fired for quite a while. Our weather here in central Oregon is finally tracking near normal (we're actually seeing daytime temps into the 50°F's), so maybe I won't need to burn past the end of May this year. In any case, I'm sure I'll be checking the forums every day, burning or not burning. Hope everyone has a good and safe "off-season", and I echo the OP's thanks for everyone's congenial, respectful, helpful participation here. It makes being a Moderator a real easy "job". Rick

Thanks for posting.

I have gotten an unussual number of questions from folks trying to buy firewood lately. My wood hauling rig is plain, no markings but since I'm still cutting, and hauling people are stopping me anywhere they see wood, or sawwing.


ATB,
Mike

Have a great summer. I will be here more now that the fireplace shop I work at has slowed down a bit. This is learning season for me If anyone needs some good news we have fireplace jobs on the schedule all the way into August!

Jags said:

I am like that foot fungus that you just can't get rid of. I'll be here, probably causing an itchy rash of some sort.

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I've got a rash on my wrist that just won't go away . . . you have anything to do with that?

Backwoods Savage said:

I'll do my best to hang around. Hardly a day goes by without at least looking at some posts.

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Who are you kidding Dennis . . . you're an institution here . . . Hearth.com without Backwoods Savage checking in every day and offering some sage advice is like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich without the peanut butter, like a banana split without the cherry, like a muscle car without a V-8, like a hydraulic splitter being run horizontally, like a . . .