Anyone Burning Yet?

Only wishing. Tired of sweat and bugs.

Lit the Firepit this past weekend....too hot for the woodstove, plus I still need to sweep the Chimney before I fire that puppy up.

No even my fire pit didn't see any fire for a long time. Too hot.

Any cooler and I'll have to start here.

We won't have a fire until probably mid-October. We are starting to have some cool mornings (in the low 50's) but that is still too warm to start the woodstove.

If history is an indicator, it will be about mid October here before we light the first evening fire.

September has been unusually warm and dry so far.

We had our first fires of the season in the end of August, when a few days barely hit 50. Last fire of last season was June 14, giving us two whole months of not burning.

Started the stove last night to take the chill off. It'll will be going again Monday evening.

None inside yet. Been burning off the uglies and roasting s'mores in the outside fireplace. Wont be long though, my wife is always cold. First night that we dip below 60F she'll ask for the fire.

Still running the a/c in new hampshire

Not here in the North Carolina mountains, but I am geared up. Got a brand new Jotul Oslo and a huge stack of firewood. Walnut, oak, and locust.
Come on Winter, make my day.

The temps are still in the 80's here lately with terrible humidity. I'm guessing a mid to late October evening for a first burn.

It feels like the middle of summer out here in Ocean city New Jersey. Got the AC cranking in the hotel room. I don't see winter coming for a long time.

Mid to late October, prob that first rainy cool Saturday where everything is damp and in the 50's. My favorite thing to do, is call a few friends over, have a case of Shipyard pumpkin spice beer and lite the stove up, then we all just stare at the fire for a couple hours talking about winter and the sled parties were going to have..yes we are in our 30's now but our girlfriends think were all just big kids.

6:30am and it's 46 degrees outside. House is at 68 degrees still so no fire today. I'm guessing I'll start burning small fires in a week or two.

I am just now getting ready for it. We left the window open on night and it got down to 64 in the house so I tried out the LP. It ran fine so that was nice.

My wife won't let me burn until October. She's usually right.

I'm new to burning - I just couldn't wait any longer. I have a just built masonry heater but an unfinished house. I need to cure the heater before winter. So, for the past week I've been burning progressively larger loads of firewood. I've been pulling out mostly cottonwood from the pile. But today I threw a big load of grubby pine into the firebox. It appears to be working. Now that it is almost cured and the mass is warmed up there is only a small trail of smoke coming from the stack.


And here is the burning pine in the firebox,

Looking good on that masonry heater. Now, you just have to build the house, and see how the Bad Boy performs.

Simonkenton said:

Looking good on that masonry heater. Now, you just have to build the house, and see how the Bad Boy performs.

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Hopefully, the next winter after this coming up one. This thing is weird. I think I will be on a cycle of one small to medium burn per day. My 1700 sq ft house will be passive solar with thermal mass and shutters so the masonry heater shouldn't have to work too hard (unfortunately - I like burning).

Not yet...but the wifey has been chilly a few nights but cool enoughto burn. great sleeping weather however. I also figure about mid-October with small fires to take the chill out.