HOW DO YOU LIGHT YOUR FIRE ???

[kenny chaos]

Hello- My name is Peggy. How may I help you?

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[billb3]

Bic

 

[katwillny]

In all my years of wood burning I've never had a problem where I had to heat the flue before lighting a fire.

Starting this year, we use 1/4 of a Super Cedar to light the fires. It works like a charm.

My problem is that if i dont first heat up the flue pipe, I get a room full of smoke. I get rolled up newspapers and hold them to the top of the stove but even that sometimes creates smoke depending on how cold it is. Sometimes i get really pissed with the smoke and makes me want to stick my wife's blow dryer up the flue pipe just to not get smoke. I am now burning 24x7 so that has helped alot.

 

[kenny chaos]

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[rover47]

It depends which stove I'm lighting. The monty I can use the top down method and it roars to life. The 602, if it hasn't been used in a while I sometimes have to warm up the pipe a little with a hair dryer. Only have to do this when the pipe is cold to the touch. When I open the door and can feel cold air come out I know it needs to be warmed up.That chimney is straight up from the stove. Usually the top down works in the 602 also.

 

[corey21]

I make a log cabin with ten peaces of kindling then to splits on top n/s then one e/w.

 

[Adios Pantalones]

Plug of air? Huh? Never heard of this.

On cold days, my stove starts faster and runs harder because of the relative buoyancy of hot air relative to cold.

I load up the stove to the top, throw some birch bark in front, or newspaper and bits that I rip off the splits I bring in if I don't have any birch, and away we go.

 

[mikepinto65]

Top down with criss-crossed kindling every time.

 

[ChipTam]

Newspaper, kindling loaded criss-cross, a couple of small splits, and then touch off the newspaper with a stick lighter. I have a wonderful source for kindling. My buddy has a small saw mill and I can help myself to an endless supply of lumber edges which he rips off boards when he trues up his 2x4s and 2x6s. Most of this scrap is 1/4" x 1 1/2" x 8 feet. I just cut it to 14" lenghts on my chop saw and box it up. I've got an excellent draft with my chimney and have never needed to pre-heat it.
ChipTam

 

[JustWood]

Small wad of NP ,old hemlock barn boards split into kindling and propane torch.

 

[rnlincourt]

My buddy gave me a super cedar round a couple of weeks ago and I didn't really think it would work all that well...I've used it for my last four fires and it's awesome! No more paper!

 

[ControlFreak]

I put about 1/4 cup of Coleman camping fuel in a ziplock baggy.

Now there's one I never thought I would hear. :lol:

CAUTION: this is being performed by a trained professional. DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME.

Jags --- You calling me a trained professional? Sure... trained by many years of wood heat. If I don't get flamed by at least one person, then I wonder it my post made it there.

Hey, if you can buy a goldfish in a ziplock baggy, and if they sell milk in a plastic bag in Wisconsin, why not use one to start your fire? Plastic bags are not dangerous :O

 

[ckarotka]

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Tenacious like bull!

 

[Jags]

Jags --- You calling me a trained professional? Sure... trained by many years of wood heat. If I don't get flamed by at least one person, then I wonder it my post made it there.

Hey, if you can buy a goldfish in a ziplock baggy, and if they sell milk in a plastic bag in Wisconsin, why not use one to start your fire? Plastic bags are not dangerous :O

CF - I hope you don't take my post as a flame on you. It was not meant to be, but I also hope you realize that your method is FAR from a recommended method. And that is what my post was meant to point out, professional stunt double or not.

 

[firefighterjake]

Flammable fuel in plastic baggies don't kill people, baggies do.

Not giving you a hard time Control Freak . . . but generally I don't advocate the use of flammable fuels in a woodstove . . . then again I'm a bit of a Neanderthal . . . I still use matches, newspaper and kindling to light my fires . . . although once in a while I go hog wild crazy and use these new contraptions they're selling around here where you click this metal piece and the flammable fuel in the plastic container produces a flame which I use to ignite my newspaper.

 

[Fsappo]

3 firelighting squares in the ash bed, three splits on top, light, open the air, close the door. Come back in 20 minutes, load the firebox full, close the air.

 

[bboulier]

3 good size splits N/S on bottom, 2 or 3 smaller splits E/W, super cedar resting on the bottom splits (replacing newspaper), some smaller kindling, leave the air open and the door slightly cracked. Start with a match and away she goes.