Own up, who has their fire lit?

[tree monkey]

silver birch bark also if we're going proper outdoorsy, and those hard black fungus balls that grow on dead trees, think they might be called horse shoe mushrooms?

Yeah cramp balls/king Alfreds cakes, mainly found on Ash

daldinea concentrica

Edited September 16, 2015 by tree monkey

[canals are us?]

Where is the rain that was promised for the Midlands? I cancelled laying a patio for today and it's been lovely! Sunny and not bad temperature in the sun.

 

I haven't got any heating on and have just had my fan on as warm eating a curry, oven on and curry!

 

I light my fire generally with a firelighter and kindling on top, then a layer of wildfire or excel. I leave the ashpan door open to get the fire going and then close it once lit.

If I'm burning wood only I close the primary air once going well and control the burn with the secondary air inlet.

 

James

Edited September 16, 2015 by canals are us?

[craftycarper]

Where is the rain that was promised for the Midlands? I cancelled laying a patio for today and it's been lovely! Sunny and not bad temperature in the sun.

 

I haven't got any heating on and have just had my fan on as warm eating a curry, oven on and curry!

 

I light my fire generally with a firelighter and kindling on top, then a layer of wildfire or excel. I leave the ashpan door open to get the fire going and then close it once lit.

If I'm burning wood only I close the primary air and control the burn with the secondary air inlet.

 

James:cheers:

we only had a small shower here in Bristol as well, after being promised rain of biblical proportions, fire is on though as getting a tad chilly, 20 indoors is my comfort zone below twenty and I light the fire,

[bizzard]

A jam jar half filled with diesel and filled with sticks make much cheaper fire lighters, but be sure to let the sticks marinate for a day or two to benefit from a long burn.

[tree monkey]

A jam jar half filled with diesel and filled with sticks make much cheaper fire lighters, but be sure to let the sticks marinate for a day or two to benefit from a long burn.

I think we had this discussion but used tea bags work well when soaked in paraffin

[Emerald Fox]

Meths. But keep the bottle itself away from any fire. Pour some in a plastic lid of an aerosol can, for instance, and pour it over the kindling. Never fails.

It is fun to strike Swan Vestas on your flies.

Edited September 17, 2015 by Emerald Fox

[tidal]

Far too many of my methods for fast lighting tend to risk one's eyebrows

[Athy]

 

It is fun to strike Swan Vestas on your flies.

Aye, it beats the heck out of swatting them.

[magnetman]

It is fun to strike Swan Vestas on your flies.

I once lit a swan vestas match on my teeth. It is not something I have opted to do regularly since

[Rufford]

Yup, light the wrapper. Done job. Best ones are from the bargain shops.

 

I cleared poundland out of them, well the shop near me anyhow. They are great for when you come home from work and need instant fire.

[Alan Saunders]

I once visited an historic schoolhouse somewhere in the middle of England where it said that the large, solid fuel stove was removed in the spring and reinstalled on 1st October. I guess that those young 18thC pupils were accustomed to the cold and their schoolmaster strode up-and-down to keep warm.

 

Yesterday, after several treks along the towpath fetching diesel, gas and shopping I discovered that my coat was not waterproof. Wet and chilled I needed some comfort and the means to dry my damp clothes in the airing-cupboard so, 'mea-culpa', I fired up the gas-fired c/h. Cabin temperature soon rose from 19C to 23C and next morning my clothes were dry.

 

This evening, with no heating, cabin temperature is a comfortable 22C. After I have cooked a meal it will be even hotter.

 

Greetings from balmy but wet Wilts.,

 

Alan

[muddywaters]

I have not had my fire lit as such.

But I have occasionally had one of those 99p fire logs that burn for about two hours lit when it's been a little chilly

[Lmcgrath87]

It was 21 degrees on the boat last night so i was told we can't light the fire. I am determined to this weekend however.

[Biggles]

I just lit the fire. Its not been lit for nearly a year, 2 clicks on the pizzo and it lit no problem, Sod all that wood, logs, coal, fire lighters, banking, stoking, riddling and ash clearing. Gas is the future now. Sorry to upset the purists, but why go through all that bother?

https://instagram.com/p/70wchXgU-R/?taken-by=kevinwade181

Edited September 19, 2015 by Biggles

[Texasboater]

I'm still running the A/C.......It's 95f here.

[Mac of Cygnet]

I've some excellent solid dry wood at the moment - went out looking for brambles near Stone and came back with fallen tree branches.

 

It stays in all night no problem - rather too much so the other night when I got back to the boat on a dreich night and lit the stove only to have to forcibly put it out before going through Standedge next afternoon.