kindling - bucks county

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I think making kindling is the easiest part of this game, why not try it?
 
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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.
 
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....
 
This is a perennial, posted here many times, but I always enjoy watching it.

 
Wow! That's some kindling...
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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).
 
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. :)
 
I have not problem firing up a full stove with 3 fatwood sticks, no kindling.
 
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