Let the fire go out. It's turned so mild the last couple of days that I can't make a small enough fire without it getting too hot in the house.
Using a few more Super Cedar quarters though.
Using a few more Super Cedar quarters though.
I figured out how to make my wood last longer
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Valhalla
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Some guys don't even burn when the sun shines or nobody is home. They figure that they can save a lot of wood.
It sure takes a lot of wood to warm up the house and thaw out the pipes! Never mind the wife!
Never spend a dime here on Super Cedars or anything else like that. Just a few of God's pine cones and some natural kindling are all that is needed.
The wife runs the stove when I am out. I am so proud of her!
It sure takes a lot of wood to warm up the house and thaw out the pipes! Never mind the wife!
Never spend a dime here on Super Cedars or anything else like that. Just a few of God's pine cones and some natural kindling are all that is needed.
The wife runs the stove when I am out. I am so proud of her!
Backwoods Savage
Minister of Fire
firefighterjake
Minister of Fire
Boozie said:
Shouldn't be an issue . . . pine, pine cones . . . as long as it is dry and seasoned . . . burn away . . . a few dry pine cones coated in dried sap work pretty well as fire starters, so feel free to burn pine "stuff" . . . well maybe you better take a pass on attempting to burn Pine Sol in the stove.
Usually we spend December and maybe some of January with letting the stove die from a morning fire and starting again for the night fire. Not this year. It has been cold since the second day of January and the stove has burned around the clock. Except for one day when I burned it down to clean the chimney in late December.
ChillyGator
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I would be burning 24/7 if someone would stoke the stove while I'm at work!
6 hr burns are the best I can do without a new stove/hearth. :coolmad:
6 hr burns are the best I can do without a new stove/hearth. :coolmad:
Adkjake
Burning Hunk
As I have an unlimited supply of pine cones, I use them quite often as fire starters. Wrap 4 or 5 in a sheet of newspaper, some kindling and WHOOSH!
Burning here, 20* and snowing, skied a Whiteface today, shin deep powder. Just finished plowing the driveway, good 8 to 10 inches down here in the Ausable Valley
Burning here, 20* and snowing, skied a Whiteface today, shin deep powder. Just finished plowing the driveway, good 8 to 10 inches down here in the Ausable Valley
ecocavalier02
Minister of Fire
probably april for me. but my stove hasnt been out since halloween night. and dont plan on stopping. course if i had a different stove i may think differently.Backwoods Savage said:
I haven't been letting the fire go out, but I've been much less aggressive with stoking it this year. Average inside temp is maybe 2º lower than last year, but looking at my wood stacks I can already see that I couldn't possibly burn the rest of it by April if I had to. Last year I was so impressed with this muscular little gal that I just had to try to makeup for all the years of freezing (54º mornings), but I've calmed down and stopped heating the outdoors so much. Not just faster burns were costing my heat loss, but the greater temp differential between inside and out was allowing heat to escape faster anyway. Surprisingly, the place still stays the same temp day and night, just 2º cooler.
By confining my hottest burns to the evenings, coupled with the possibility that I had my stove slightly out of adjustment all last year, I think I'll end up burning just over four cord instead of 5 - 5 1/2 last year. And that's heating the whole place to 70º from the basement. Some of it may be just me being a smarter operator, but I think most of it is just the physics of heat loss.
By confining my hottest burns to the evenings, coupled with the possibility that I had my stove slightly out of adjustment all last year, I think I'll end up burning just over four cord instead of 5 - 5 1/2 last year. And that's heating the whole place to 70º from the basement. Some of it may be just me being a smarter operator, but I think most of it is just the physics of heat loss.
Kenster
Minister of Fire
Battenkiller said:
Ah, but don't ya see? A less "smarter operator" would not have noticed, or cared, about the physics of heat loss.
Well done.
Doin the pine cone thing here too. About the only time the stove will go out till spring will be if we are gone for too long. However new stove will hopefully limit those times now.
LLigetfa said:
Gas costs me nothing. The major gas pipeline from Texas up to Maine is eight miles from my house and I can't get the stuff. Which I don't really mind because that stuff scares me. When I lived in Texas at least one house a year would just disappear in the middle of the day.
Never heard of a wood pile exploding.
krex1010
Minister of Fire
Valhalla
Minister of Fire
Valhalla
Minister of Fire
ChillyGator said:
Hey Florida guy,
For some reason the words Florida and wood stove do not normally go together. Did you get a special importation permit? LOL
Seriously, great to have you here!
I would be happy to burn 24/7, but don't have the wood supply yet. At present, I burn whenever my sons and their spouse, fiancee', or girl friend come by, whenever friends drop in, and whenever there's a nice snow or a romantic evening. Or, when I just want to sit by the fire and read.
I don't usually bother firing the stove if it's warm outside (like close to 40*). Doesn't draft all that great and even with just a small log or too it gets way too hot in the house. Otherwise the stove is running 24/7.
I do keep the T Stats in the rooms at 63-65 though, no sense in the house freezing if the stove would die down.
I do keep the T Stats in the rooms at 63-65 though, no sense in the house freezing if the stove would die down.
Wood Duck
Minister of Fire
How long does it take for pine cones to season?[/quote]krex1010 said:
I am not sure how long it takes, but I'd say that if they start quickly and burn hot enough to be a useful fire starter, they are seasoned.
Danno77
Minister of Fire
Sounds like my weather and your weather got confused and swapped. It was 2F this morning when I left for work. Not much wind, though, so it's not that bad.LLigetfa said:
Danno77
Minister of Fire
BTW, thought this was gonna be a Viagra review.
Guess "Not Burning" is Viagra for your wood stacks.
Guess "Not Burning" is Viagra for your wood stacks.
firefighterjake
Minister of Fire
krex1010 said:
Not long . . . I usually collect a large trash bag or two in the Fall after they've dropped and opened up . . . by the time I get around to burning them they light up quite nicely . . . I believe "Whoosh" was the descriptive term.
Still mild, -8°C now. Built a fire when I got home from work and will be letting the fire go out again overnight. It would get too hot in the house overnight if I stoked the stove. As it is now, I have to almost lose the fire and then ressurect it from a few coals. Used up all my small splits and was too lazy to go out to the shed for more so I squandered a whole Super Cedar to get the fire going. Tomorrow is supposed to be mild again but then it will turn colder on Saturday.
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