Shoulder season
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Imagine a graph of heating requirement over the course of a year from, say July to July. Heating requirement (in whatever units you like) starts out at the lowest level of the year, then begins to increase, maybe slowly at first. Then along about late September (of course all this depends on where you live) it's getting plenty chilly but not "deep winter" cold. This is the fall into winter "shoulder season". Some heating required, but not full time flat out. Then the heating requirement continues to increase significantly through Oct, Nov, Dec, Jan, Feb...then maybe starts to decrease. Approaching the spring into summer "shoulder season"...then (finally) comes a day you stop burning for the season. During shoulder season you may not be burning every day...maybe just mornings & evenings. The graph can be said to look like a head with shoulders. The popular folklore has it that the term came from the tourism industry to describe those periods between peak season and off season. Rick
Thistle
Minister of Fire
Been cutting & burning for 32 yrs,never heard the term since I joined here almost 2 yrs ago.
It means Oct Nov & March April the "shoulders'' with the coldest months Dec Jan Feb the 'head' in between.
I still call it Fall & Spring usually though.
It means Oct Nov & March April the "shoulders'' with the coldest months Dec Jan Feb the 'head' in between.
I still call it Fall & Spring usually though.
bogydave
Minister of Fire
Jack Straw
Minister of Fire
smokinj
Minister of Fire
It feels like shoulder here right now! Man I hate winter but its coming. Guess that is why I do what I do! 
My Oslo heats my home
Minister of Fire
Thistle
Minister of Fire
It feels like shoulder here right now! Man I hate winter but its coming. Guess that is why I do what I do!
45 @5AM when I woke up,42 at sunrise.Burned a 3 gallon bucket of dry scrap/kindling for a couple hours to take the chill off.First fire of the season,normally its a couple weeks later.66 now,mid 70's rest of week.
Its-a-comin'.....But I'm ready.
Woody Stover
Minister of Fire
They call it shoulder season because we shrug a lot when trying to decide weather to light the stove or not. 
red oak
Minister of Fire
Fall and Spring are shoulder seasons. Winter is head season. What is summer?
firefighterjake
Minister of Fire
Depends on the work habits.
Butt Season. For some folks it's too hot to work on the wood and they sit on their butts, drinking cold ones and wiling away the long summer days. For other folks it's time for them to get their butts in gear and make sure they have plenty of wood for the upcoming heating seasons.
Should call it "window season". Our windows will end up staying open from the moment we build the first fire right through the end of November, I like to refer to my windows as "woodstove thermostats" also.......
Summer is "bust-yer-ass" season......when alot of the cutting, splitting and stacking gets accomplished (along with the honey-do lists my wife is constantly writing for me)!
Billybonfire
Feeling the Heat
CageMaster
Feeling the Heat
infinitymike
Minister of Fire
They call it shoulder season because we shrug a lot when trying to decide weather to light the stove or not.
That's funny.
CageMaster
Feeling the Heat
speaking of shoulder season....temp dropped to five degrees below freezing here last night, and as a result the first fire of the year was lit in the stove this morning.
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