My first fire this morning

37 chief · Oct 20, 2021

Today is the first fire in my wood stove this year. Not looking foreword to another year of packing in wood. With everything going up about all I pay for is gas
and oil for my saw, and electricity for my wood splitter. That makes heating my house fairly reasonable. Any of you have fires yet? Stan

Jon Erickson · Oct 21, 2021

Started woodstove for first time on Tuesday night. Later in season than usual. Western Minnesota

Bob Bancroft · Oct 21, 2021

It was a few days ago, I don't remember exactly which day- it had been unusually warm here in central NY. So much so I had been wearing light weight, light colored clothing. Then over the weekend we were flooded, and the weather changed. After a couple days of that, it got chilly enough in the house I turned on the thermostat. So, yes, I started a fire, but it was propane, confined in a boiler!

M Nut · Oct 21, 2021

Started my wood boiler Wednesday, Oct. 20th. East central MN, and about a month later than usual. Has been beautiful Fall weather this year.

Geo-TH,In · Oct 21, 2021

I'm still waiting before I smoke the lint off my electric baseboard heaters.

grandpa Love · Oct 21, 2021

Had a small fire in the wood stove in the house this past week. Enough to knock the chill off. Central Alabama

RobCons · Oct 21, 2021

No fire since we have a heat pump but I've been turning the heat on in the morning and a/c in the afternoon. Just down the road from Grandpa.

DRussell · Oct 21, 2021

No heat on at my house. Still have my AC on in south central PA. And it gets warm enough every day to come on and run.

caterpillar guy · Oct 21, 2021

Had a fire for a night or 2 last week then let out till this week. Now probably will be a fire for the rest of the winter. From one drudgery to the other.

steve in ok · Oct 21, 2021

It has finally starting acting like fall her in central Oklahoma. I have gone a full week with no AC or heat.

fusion1 · Oct 21, 2021

No fire yet, here in Central Pa but I am cutting wood
stacked about 1 cord so far only burn when sub Zero

Richard G. · Oct 21, 2021

Only in the shop so far.
Been letting the gas logs take care of the house so far.
That may change next week.
Got a lot of dry wood to split.
Richard in NW SC

Russ from MN · Oct 21, 2021

Had a fire all night at the cabin on the Canadian border of MN, 26 degrees outside 71 inside.

Jim in NC · Oct 21, 2021

Only a couple of small ones the last few days to overcome the chill. We are well stocked with firewood and have a good supply to cut thanks to Mother Natuee.

Mike M · Oct 21, 2021

Had some nights here in Ohio get pretty cold. Had to run the LP furnace some already. And some days had to switch the AC on ?

Turkeyfoot · Oct 21, 2021

Had first fire a few days ago in Kansas. Warmed back up and I'm hoping I won't need another for a while. Running a little behind on wood this year. Have about 75% of what I'll need stacked and split.

john in la · Oct 21, 2021

Fire ??????

Heck we still got the A/C on.

TomA in CA · Oct 21, 2021

We have not lit the wood stove yet. We have only had .10 rain two times. Wife is worried about fire danger. I brought in an electric heater. I hated to do that. We used to heat with propane cook stove with oven door open before the rains. She got a new computerized stove that won't run with the door open, can't light the burners without power also.

They are predicting big rain Sunday and Monday. Then we can light the big soapstone stove, probably keep it going all winter.
Lots of wood here. The Mono Winds blew down a lot of Golden Cup oaks, it It is called ironwood, great burning wood. Lots of dead falls at the ranch from all the years of drought.

They are predicting 1-2 per storm. Hopefully this means a wet year coming. Last year we did not get an inch of rain from any of the few storms we had.

It will be good to have rain at this time. It is still warm enough to get some grass to grow for winter feed for the cows.

Goose · Oct 21, 2021

My wife and I once had a house with a wood furnace where we could do about 89% of our heating with wood, and just used propane for a backup.

I analyzed it once and figured out that by what we saved on propane I was working for about $3.00 per hour when I cut and split firewood. I finally decided if I wanted to make $3.00 an hour, there were more pleasant things to do than cut firewood.

Bob Harvey · Oct 21, 2021

Yep, about a week ago. I'm just waiting for the replacement propane lookalike. After 50+ years of firewood, the thrill is gone. I have bought my wood for a few years now, but the availability and high prices talked me into the propane substitute. We have an air to air heat exchange unit for main heat (it reduced our Electric costs from $175 per mo. to $70 per mo. and paid fior itself in under 6 years.

Mac AR · Oct 21, 2021

Lit my first fire on Saturday; down to 37 here in the Ozarks. But today wearing short sleeves and running the A/C. Go figure!

Mac

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