fat wood - good or bad for kindling

[Valhalla]

We use a lot of natural kindling for startup. I occasionally hand split some spruce to mix in the kindling boxes to season.

Natural kindling works great, however just like seasoning your wood fuel, you have to plan ahead.

 

[eclecticcottage]

We used it too, but we've been splitting some bug killed (stood dead for @2yrs) scotch pine we seasoned since the summer into small pieces to use. It's not quite as pitch filled, but works well. We've got a bunch of pine from the fall sitting in rounds to be split for next year too-people give pine away free here all the time, just gotta get on it quick because the OWB folks will grab it up it seems.