Mama was cold & wanted a fire, it was in the mid 50’s today, windy & raining. It’s supposed to be mid 40’s & raining tonight. I just cleaned the flue, firebox & replaced the baffle. “Happy wife, happy life”.
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I could of got 3-4 more splits in loading that way. I loaded with 2 splits of Red Elm & 3 Splits of Cherry. It was 60 in the house when I lit it & it’s 75 now in the stove room so not unbearable. It’s pretty well burned down now.
ZZ Tom
Burning Hunk
My wife built a fire today while I was at work. Can't recall having a fire in September. Crazy weather here. Record setting heat last week, overnight lows in low 40s last night and tonight. Wind gusting near 70 mph at our place, while 25 miles north gusts near 100. Lots of trees down and I've got nowhere to stash any firewood.
It was in the mid 90’s Fri. - Sun. , low 80’s Monday then temps started dropping in the afternoon. I turned the ac off Mon. evening.
Sawset
Minister of Fire
Probably start up tonight just to bump the temps. Have some poplar and pine set aside for some quick hot fires to take off the chill. Cloudy and 55 out, no sun coming in, things just don't warm up otherwise. Had the furnace on last night for 15min or so, but two days now of cool and it's time to move on. Still have a couple AC's in the windows, and probably will still need them sometime yet, but the tug of war between arctic cold and gulf air is in full swing.
johneh
Minister of Fire
Diabel
Minister of Fire
I always itch to start a fire this time of year when it has been in the 50s and raining for couple of days. Then we cook up a storm for dinner and the house gains few degrees. Plus, a full stomach warms you up nicely. Have the VC cocked and ready but i think there will be no fire tonight. Buck to sunny and warm by tomorrow afternoon.
Deets
Member
How’s it goin Jim!
I started a fire yesterday too, been cold and wet the last two days.
Doing well, I see they let in. Yes, it’s supposed to start warming up again. I cooked supper tonight.
Deets
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Deets
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Looks brand new. Hopefully you can get some answers to your boiler questions that you posted in that section. With heating season just around the corner traffic should start to pick up in that area.
Deets
Member
Yeah, I’d like to get a decent setup. Won’t be in use till next heating season, but I’ve got quite a bit of work to get it how I want it.
Gearhead660
Minister of Fire
Same fall like weather here, cool and drizzly. Good weather for a fire.
Sawset
Minister of Fire
WoodBurnerInWI
Feeling the Heat
Have been making evening fires since Tues night. Cool and windy and rainy here in Madison, great excuse to start dipping into the shorts and uglies in my stacks! One more fire tonight to take the chill off then the stove will be cold for awhile as the weather looks to be better the next week. I cannot ever remember starting the wood stove this early in the season, even for small fires. In any case, who cares, burn season is back!! 
Diabel
Minister of Fire
Came to the lake and the house was nippie!
Bunch of uglies (hemlock naturally). First fire of the season.
Nope, I’ve never had a fire in September either but I did run the furnace a little last week. I set the thermostat at 65 so as not to use up my LP stores for the winter lol.
XmasTreefarmer
Feeling the Heat
Same here. I guess there's a first time for everything.
It had dropped to 68 in the house, so I switched the thermostat from Cooling to Heating, heard the furnace kick in, let it run for a bit - always good to know that it still works - and then shut it down and built a fire! Stove and chimney were all ready to go, so why not?
My wife and I got some coffee and watched the fire and did sort of a collective sigh ... beautiful fire to watch and the feel of the wood heat - you just can't beat it.
I need to put my stove back together yet, it won’t take but a half hour if that to put the tubes and a few bricks in. I imagine it will be just a few weeks and I’ll start burning wood again. Just a side note, I was just cutting up some white birch that the power company took down on the road With my little 12" chinese JonCutter saw. I have thousands into my pro saws but it’s fun to run this little $99 saw some to see if it’ll hold up.
weatherguy
Minister of Fire
Earlier I said that I’ve never had a fire in September but now I have, it was 32 out this morning with frost and I let the house cool down overnight and I had my first fire a bit ago and so the heating season begins.
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