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Anyone got the fireplace cranking?

Posted By: lconn4

Anyone got the fireplace cranking? - 01/13/18 11:04 PM


Posted By: Westside.

Re: Anyone got the fireplace cranking? - 01/13/18 11:07 PM

All my previous homes had fireplaces, current one does not, really miss it
Posted By: lconn4

Re: Anyone got the fireplace cranking? - 01/13/18 11:13 PM

First time to use mine this year. Spent the last 48 hours trying to determine what was wrong with damper not opening or shutting correctly. So uncomfortable trying to work on that mess all twisted around while sitting on edge of bricks while looking up while trying to shine light and move things around. Finally got it back in track and making up for lost time. First fireplace I've had in 30 years. bouncy
Posted By: Dan90210 ☮

Re: Anyone got the fireplace cranking? - 01/13/18 11:14 PM

Looks good Lewis!

I've got a gas fireplace and last time I lit it I burned off my eyebrows so I kind of refrain now
Posted By: Hard Rain

Re: Anyone got the fireplace cranking? - 01/13/18 11:18 PM

Originally Posted By: Dan90210 ☮
Looks good Lewis!

I've got a gas fireplace and last time I lit it I burned off my eyebrows so I kind of refrain now


LOL I have a gas log and we use it quite a bit but not going right now...mabye in a bit. Get the long wooden matches light it and get it in place around the gas log then slowly turn the key increasing the gas until it ignites. I strongly emphasize the word slowly grin
Posted By: RATZ

Re: Anyone got the fireplace cranking? - 01/13/18 11:22 PM

have had this house for 12 years and never used the fireplace. It's half on an internal (to garage) wall and I don't trust those.
Posted By: lconn4

Re: Anyone got the fireplace cranking? - 01/13/18 11:25 PM

Originally Posted By: Dan90210 ☮
Looks good Lewis!

I've got a gas fireplace and last time I lit it I burned off my eyebrows so I kind of refrain now


Thanks for reminding me of burning hair. On my birthday about 40 years ago I got into a motorcycle accident at college. Got out of emergency room later that evening, got home and was about to light gas stove to cook when I heard about my accident on 10 oclock news on TV. I leaned away from stove with gas lit and match burning to see around corner to tv. When I turned back around gas had been running a little longer and match was now closer... BOOM. I pounded my head like a madman trying to put out the flames in my hair. Thought I might make the 10 o'clock morning news but got it put out.
Posted By: Westside.

Re: Anyone got the fireplace cranking? - 01/13/18 11:27 PM

I prefer a true masonry fireplace
Posted By: Jig Man

Re: Anyone got the fireplace cranking? - 01/13/18 11:32 PM

Yep...

Posted By: Dan90210 ☮

Re: Anyone got the fireplace cranking? - 01/13/18 11:32 PM

Originally Posted By: Hard Rain
Originally Posted By: Dan90210 ☮
Looks good Lewis!

I've got a gas fireplace and last time I lit it I burned off my eyebrows so I kind of refrain now


LOL I have a gas log and we use it quite a bit but not going right now...mabye in a bit. Get the long wooden matches light it and get it in place around the gas log then slowly turn the key increasing the gas until it ignites. I strongly emphasize the word slowly grin


Now you tell me lol.

I made the mistake of turning on the gas first, droped the match picked it up and quickly considered if there was too much gas or not to still put it down toward the gas... I guessed wrong.

Burned off my eyebrows and my boss was calling me Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer for the next two weeks.
Posted By: Dan90210 ☮

Re: Anyone got the fireplace cranking? - 01/13/18 11:33 PM

Originally Posted By: lconn4
Originally Posted By: Dan90210 ☮
Looks good Lewis!

I've got a gas fireplace and last time I lit it I burned off my eyebrows so I kind of refrain now


Thanks for reminding me of burning hair. On my birthday about 40 years ago I got into a motorcycle accident at college. Got out of emergency room later that evening, got home and was about to light gas stove to cook when I heard about my accident on 10 oclock news on TV. I leaned away from stove with gas lit and match burning to see around corner to tv. When I turned back around gas had been running a little longer and match was now closer... BOOM. I pounded my head like a madman trying to put out the flames in my hair. Thought I might make the 10 o'clock morning news but got it put out.


Epic lol
Posted By: bloo_rainger

Re: Anyone got the fireplace cranking? - 01/13/18 11:43 PM

When I was a kid I poured gas on the logs in my dads fireplace while they were gone. When I lit it the explosion blew everything off the walls and the ashes that were already in the fireplace went everywhere. It was quite a traumatic event for me. Lesson learned, don’t use gasoline to start a fire inside of a house.
Posted By: Westside.

Re: Anyone got the fireplace cranking? - 01/13/18 11:45 PM

Originally Posted By: bloo_rainger
When I was a kid I poured gas on the logs in my dads fireplace while they were gone. When I lit it the explosion blew everything off the walls and the ashes that were already in the fireplace went everywhere. It was quite a traumatic event for me. Lesson learned, don’t use gasoline to start a fire inside of a house.


Dang flame
Posted By: CCTX

Re: Anyone got the fireplace cranking? - 01/13/18 11:52 PM

I don’t trust them
When I was a kid the neighbors a few houses down had a bad fire when they ran theirs—cinders set the roof shingles ablaze
Posted By: MBradford

Re: Anyone got the fireplace cranking? - 01/14/18 12:51 AM

Sure wish this hotel room had one.

Posted By: Trickster

Re: Anyone got the fireplace cranking? - 01/14/18 12:53 AM

Nope. Don't care for and indoor fireplace. Grew up in a 6000 sq foot farm home that had a huge fire box in the basement. Can't tell you how much coal and wood went through that thing.
Posted By: butch sanders

Re: Anyone got the fireplace cranking? - 01/14/18 01:33 AM

thats nice
we are going also
Posted By: butch sanders

Re: Anyone got the fireplace cranking? - 01/14/18 01:35 AM

Originally Posted By: MBradford
Sure wish this hotel room had one.




why are you there tonight?
Posted By: fish4bass

Re: Anyone got the fireplace cranking? - 01/14/18 01:39 AM



Hot stove in the man cave. Watching the NFL. Toasty
Posted By: Billy Blazer 300 HPDI

Re: Anyone got the fireplace cranking? - 01/14/18 01:45 AM

Gas log fireplace with a remote. Which turned itself on by itself the other day. May have turned itself on night before last unless I forgot to turn it off.

My wife thinks a wood burning fireplace or stove make the house smell bad.
Posted By: chickenman

Re: Anyone got the fireplace cranking? - 01/14/18 01:46 AM

Both are tonight.

Shop heat is on too.

breakdance
Posted By: MBradford

Re: Anyone got the fireplace cranking? - 01/14/18 01:49 AM

Originally Posted By: butch sanders
Originally Posted By: MBradford
Sure wish this hotel room had one.




why are you there tonight?


Hockey tournament.
Posted By: lconn4

Re: Anyone got the fireplace cranking? - 01/14/18 01:50 AM


Dinner is served.
Posted By: Bee'z

Re: Anyone got the fireplace cranking? - 01/14/18 02:20 AM

Ran out of wood bang My own damn fault too.
Posted By: lconn4

Re: Anyone got the fireplace cranking? - 01/14/18 02:44 AM

Originally Posted By: 2 Bee'z
Ran out of wood bang My own damn fault too.


Try burning the yellow pages.
Posted By: B-rader

Re: Anyone got the fireplace cranking? - 01/14/18 02:54 AM

I have an insert with s blower , I throw a log on once an hour . My heater hasent turned on in 3 days
Posted By: Bee'z

Re: Anyone got the fireplace cranking? - 01/14/18 02:56 AM

Originally Posted By: lconn4
Originally Posted By: 2 Bee'z
Ran out of wood bang My own damn fault too.


Try burning the yellow pages.


Plenty of paper lol. Just no wood...
Posted By: Dfitz

Re: Anyone got the fireplace cranking? - 01/14/18 03:21 AM

Originally Posted By: Jig Man
Yep...



Hoarder roflmao
Posted By: fish4bass

Re: Anyone got the fireplace cranking? - 01/14/18 03:47 AM

I purchased two cords of split post oak in July. The good stuff.
Posted By: Westside.

Re: Anyone got the fireplace cranking? - 01/14/18 03:53 AM

Originally Posted By: fish4bass
I purchased two cords of split post oak in July. The good stuff.


What makes it the good stuff?
Posted By: MrRoachie

Re: Anyone got the fireplace cranking? - 01/14/18 04:02 AM

Originally Posted By: 2 Bee'z
Ran out of wood bang My own damn fault too.


Oklahoma Firewood Jackie
Mobile 5805599309
Posted By: Bee'z

Re: Anyone got the fireplace cranking? - 01/14/18 04:25 AM

Originally Posted By: MrRoachie
Originally Posted By: 2 Bee'z
Ran out of wood bang My own damn fault too.


Oklahoma Firewood Jackie
Mobile 5805599309


Thanks you Roachie. It will stay cold so I will give him a shout.
Posted By: lconn4

Re: Anyone got the fireplace cranking? - 01/14/18 05:52 AM

Originally Posted By: 2 Bee'z
Originally Posted By: lconn4
Originally Posted By: 2 Bee'z
Ran out of wood bang My own damn fault too.


Try burning the yellow pages.


Plenty of paper lol. Just no wood...


Is that what she said? bolt
Posted By: Coach Hark

Re: Anyone got the fireplace cranking? - 01/14/18 06:17 AM

If it’s below freezing the fireplace is going. No sissy gas logs, straight wood burning fireplace.
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