Absolute novice - how much firewood for a few hours of fire over three days?

It would really depend on the type of wood I would say.

If you end up weighing your wood, let us know what it was.

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How many pounds of firewood should I have handy for this?

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i did chuckle but not at your expense...ive just never heard firewood described in terms of pounds before

since you are traveling you'll probably buy firewood in those little bundles, usually 8-10 split pieces. every time you burn, you'll probably use up one of those. if you run out out go get more

hope this helps

I kind of laughed a little at the pounds of firewood request as well but agree that the bundle of firewood packs is the way to go. However that stuff is usually super dry and burns real quick so I would probably double that amount to be safe. Also concur on using a starter log and maybe some lighter fluid. No regular gas OP.

truckload full

white man build big fire and stand far away

Indian build small fire and stand close

350 pounds

Use local wood. It’s usually illegal to bring oak across state lines as you could be brining disease.

Order 20 pounds per night.

I burn about the equivalent amount of one of the bundles you can buy at convenience stores during a 3.5-4 hour football game in my fire pit. I usually have it going before kick off and it will be nothing but ash by the end of the game...if that helps. I like to frick with a fire a lot....picking up sticks of wood and placing them where they will burn and rolling them etc. so that makes it burn quicker. That is also wood that is greener than most of those bundles are so it burns a little slower. I start it with 1/4 of one of the fire logs. I cut them in 1/4s with a sawzall. A whole fire log will last about 2 hours in my firepit. They make them that you can roast marshmallows over and some of them will spark and act more like actual wood. They all look cheesy when burning though LOL.

One word of caution with those fire logs. Do not pick one of them up with tongs and walk through the living room with it. It will be far more exciting than one would think. I used one in a fireplace once and the flew was broke and almost completely closed. The thing had barely burnt the paper off it. I picked it up with tongs to carry it outside so the house would not fill up with smoke and about halfway to the back door it broke in half and when it hit the floor it broke into about 6 million pieces, each of which was on fire and intent on burning the house down. I had a helluva time stomping all of them small but incredibly hot fires out...and most of them had to be stomped out multiple times. Some of them would re-ignite in the dust pan and start a whole other fire....it was some kind of fun I assure you. Did not help at all that the entire reason for the fire was a romantic fantasy of my wife's and we were butt naked when we noticed the flew wasn't opened. To her credit laughing her arse off at me hopping around butt naked trying to round up those damn tiny fires proved to be quite the aphrodisiac for her......