Make sure your fireplace is prepped and the flue damper is open. Then, start stacking firewood using either the log cabin or ...

The second technique, the Log Cabin, is more stable and easier to add logs to as the fire burns. This is better suited to starting a fire in a fire pit. As the name implies, the logs are arranged in a ...

With a lifetime of heating with a wood stove, burning trees and limbs blown down in storms, and some years now of testing fire pits for Popular Mechanics, I’ve learned a thing or two about starting ...