kindling - bucks county

[Dave A.]

I get scraps from local HD or Lowes

Last time I checked in the spring, HD's around here won't let you have scraps anymore.

 

[Ram 1500 with an axe...]

I think making kindling is the easiest part of this game, why not try it?

 

[TreePointer]

I have more than enough splitter trash to use for kindling every year. It's too late in the year now, but my trick is to spread out a bunch of it on my blacktop driveway for a day or two in the hot summer sun. The wood is thin enough that it essentially will be seasoned through cooking out the moisture.

 

[Ram 1500 with an axe...]

Great tip, I tried doing that to some cherry splits this year, I will definitely do that to the smaller stuff next summer.... Thanks Treepointer....

 

[Ashful]

This is a perennial, posted here many times, but I always enjoy watching it.

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[npellegrene]

This may help....
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Hopefully you all don't beat me too it and clean it out... I'd like to get a load myself.

 

[Ashful]

Wow! That's some kindling...

 

[Dave A.]

HD's around here won't let you have scraps anymore.

Not sure if that's a company wide policy or not, but the one store here made it sound like it is throughout all the HD's. But am wondering, because google turns up nothing on this.

 

[mnowaczyk]

I live on a 40x150 postage stamp and just cleaning up my property come up with tons of kindling. I do have a 80-90 year old oak tree out front which helps a lot.

I can understand buying split cords of wood, but kindling seems way too easy to come by, heck, even the bark and scraps from deliver wood creates a good bit of kindling.

Maybe later this year I will be out of kindling, but at this time of year I'm still just burning it to get rid of it.

 

[BillLion]

I got a box of Fatwood from LL Bean as a gift from a friend this year. It's been working great! You can even order a box from Amazon.

 

[Paulywalnut]

I will occasionally but cheap two by fours and cut them 6 inches long and split them like fat wood size.
4 eight footers give you a lot of splits.

 

[Ashful]

I guess definitions of kindling vary, so let's be specific:

Fatwood, usually split close to 1/4" x 1/2" x 6". If this is your definition of kindling, then you're probably still lighting with newspaper. I used to do this, and it works, but...

My current definition of "kindling" = stuff split at 2" x 2" x 18", or smaller. Much of this is downed tree branches, from just cleaning up the yard. Put a 1/4 SuperCedar in the bottom of the stove, and three or four of these 2" x 2" sticks on top, and it'll take off just fine.

I just eliminated your need for smaller kindling, at a whopping 16 cents per fire (cost of 1/4 SuperCedar in 100 count box).

 

[RKK]

I can NOT recomend this process. Fourty years ago I knew an old timer that would cold start a fire without paper or kindling. He would place the full sized splits in the stove and dump about a cup of kerosene soaked saw dust, on top. One match, light the edge of the sawdust, open the draft and shut the door. Fire took right off.

 

[Hogwildz]

I have not problem firing up a full stove with 3 fatwood sticks, no kindling.