George Rebane

We have always had lots of firewood and kept a fire going in the fireplace most of the year.  As a camper and backpacker, I have made a fire or two in the woods over the decades.  And I've often been asked about how I build and maintain a reliable and long-burning wood fire.  As a techie, I started studying the behavior of small fires at an early age, and here I distill my approach to the care and feeding of indoor and outdoor wood fires - Download WoodFires_v160923.  In any event, it's a diversion to the usual stuff that appears in these pages.

[29sep16 update]  The pdf download above is the 23sep16 version of my paper that now includes a description and use of the Yule Log Angle and the Keeper Chain which give a new and rewarding dimension to wood fires in your fireplace.  Enjoy.