What month do you think you will start burning for the 2011 and 2012 season?

[firefighterjake]

Well, except for "Newbie here. I cut this wood September 6th and there is smoke in my living room. This EPA stove is a piece of crap. My grandpa used to do it this way.".

This is the one I look forward to the most. That and "the old stove worked fine with the same chimney".

And the follow up . . . "I really don't think it is the wood . . . I was told it was seasoned" or "I cut the wood in May so it should be seasoned by now -- I don't think it is the wood."

 

[firefighterjake]

Typically late-September, early-October . . . but as Fossil said -- it really depends on when it gets cold. Two years back I had a fire going on July 3rd.

 

[Flatbedford]

When it gets cold.

What he said, and I'll add until it gets warm.

 

[jackofalltrades]

It will not be needed here until mid- November, but we usually have a few cold nights in October so I will not be able to contain myself. I will have to build a little fire just to watch it burn. It will proably be late November or early December before I light the fire and keep er going.

 

[wood-fan-atic]

We are like a bunch of children --- just waiting to play with their toys on Christmas morning. I always say that I'll wait til November --- and there is ALWAYS a few lit before Halloween. What can I say---- I'm impatient ----like a child. and I'm OK with it.

 

[jimbom]

If the sun shines, we don't need to heat until December. I try to get the house warm a couple of days before the wife gelds me. Not that it matters at my age.

Once I start heat and the seventeen tons of upstairs concrete floor gets warm, I don't stop until March. Since 2008, the Atlanta Stove in the lower level has kept her content for the colder snaps in November. This year, I am going to go with the Encore upstairs as long as she will let me. She likes the exercise wood gives me. Natural gas water heater fed hydronic remains the primary heat.

 

[Backwoods Savage]

We normally have a couple fires in September but the past few years we've also seen some pretty high temperatures in September. I have a feeling there will be plenty of fires in September here in MI this year but for sure October will be the month when many fires are built.

 

[nate379]

The wood I have for this year will be real nice to burn. It was "ok" last year, but with another year of drying, now I can darn near light the log by just holding a match to it.

Well, except for "Newbie here. I cut this wood September 6th and there is smoke in my living room. This EPA stove is a piece of crap. My grandpa used to do it this way.".

 

[laynes69]

Seems like every year during the last two days of our county fair, we light a fire to warm up. Thats about the end of September. I wouldn't have a problem with the first burns in October, but that never happens.

 

[jdinspector]

It will be October (early). I flatly refuse to start the stove earlier than that, even though I have mucho wood on hand.

BTW, do backyard fires count? It's cool tonight and my kids had a bonfire in the backyard!

 

[madrone]

Late November, with the exception of an undisclosed number of "test fires".

 

[DiscoInferno]

Pretty much always have some nighttime fires in late October. Might even get into December before it runs during the day though.

 

[Milton Findley]

I turn on the air conditioner when I am sitting here with my clothes mostly off and I feel hot, and I fire up the stove when I am sitting here with my clothes on and I feel cold.

 

[Coach B]

I'll light the Jotul on some cool nights around the first of Oct. OWB will get lit for full time burning by late November. Kids are already asking when can we have a fire?