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What Does Shoulder Season Mean to You?

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  1. nate

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    Small fire maybe at night or every other night. I usually start burning when it's getting into the low 30s at night and stop when it's over that.
    Too hard to regulate the heat if it's warmer.
     
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    It means that the sweaters will be put away soon. Don't get me wrong I like a good sweater but I like halter tops a whole lot more.
     
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    When SuperCedars start to find there way back upstairs. When wood count that goes into the stove goes from 8 to 12 down to 3 small pieces...Just enough to take that chill out of the air...
     
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    Actually the term has never made much sense to me.
    Most people seem to switch the type of wood they burn, but we burn the same wood (pine) all the times, so "shoulder season" doesn't mean much to us in that respect. Also, more often than not we let the stove go out in the mornings and start it again at night all the time anyway, so we seldom burn 24/7, so I can't call it shoulder season if we are not burning 24/7.
    I guess shoulder season here would be when some days are cold enough to warrant a fire, and some days are not.
     
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    That's why God gave you pine :)
     
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    Really? I can't seem to keep mine from falling down.
    I think my boobs are too small or something.
    :rofl: :lol::rofl: :lol::rofl: :lol:
     
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    I burn 24/7/210 and have three classes of firewood in my pile: lessers, solid and primo. It takes primo with the stove running wide open to keep up in the worst of January, so we don't burn anything but the lessers in shoulder season.
     
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    I separate out the straight nice splits form the crocked , lumpy ones as I pull them out of the wood box.
    the straight ones are night burn wood, a lot more wood in the stove when it stacks fairly tight.
    The crocked lumpy ones are shoulder & day loads, more air space between pieces.
     
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    ill I got on this forum..I had never even heard of the term "shoulder season" . But I always did it in some way ! Nice to have a name to go with the method :)
     
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    "Shoulder Season" sure beats......"The time when it's too warm to burn full time, and yet you still need an occasional fire to keep the house warm."
    SS is even gooder.
     
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    If you guys haven't figured it out, I am goin to include a segment on shoulder season in my march video. Thank for all your input, going to start the script in about 7 hours.
     
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    Ah, shoulder season! First thing it means is that we may finally get to see some female skin again outdoors!

    It also means using a lot of Super Cedars because we'll be starting fires more and more from a cold stove. In the fall, it means we'll burn a lot of odd shaped pieces and some that have some punk. In spring it usually means we'll be burning more of the small rounds.

    In addition, it means snow melt and spring birds returning. It also is a quick reminder that if it is not done yet, get out there and prune the fruit trees! A great time to get out and split the wood we cut over the winter months. Of course the wood stacking comes right after the splitting. Then comes working ground for gardens and food plots. It also means that very soon I'll be able to remove the bicycle from the trainer indoors and finally ride the roads again.
     
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