Where do you buy these, I looked and found them at the HD for $12.98
A hatchet, a hammer, split up a bunch of finger sized sticks,put em in a bucket.
A couple of 3 to 4 inch splits laid 4 or 5 inches apart,crumpled up paper between them, then lay the sticks across them ,then bigger splits on top of sticks and light
Where do you buy these, I looked and found them at the HD for $12.98
A hatchet, a hammer, split up a bunch of finger sized sticks,put em in a bucket.
A couple of 3 to 4 inch splits laid 4 or 5 inches apart,crumpled up paper between them, then lay the sticks across them ,then bigger splits on top of sticks and light
I also use the 'dog's breakfast" of kindling. There's not shortage around my place and it's a great way to clean things up a bit.Super Cedars, pine cones, cardboard, birch bark, pallet pieces, dimensional lumber scraps, kindling and newspaper . . . I'm not too picky on how the fire gets started . . . just that it does get started.
I have never had a hard time starting the stove with good dry kindling. Using an accelerant to start a fire in the stove is just plain dangerous and unnecessary. It's also more expensive. Go to some local cabinetry or woodworking shops and ask if they have any scraps you can collect. Keep a couple garbage cans full in a dry place and you'll be set for winter. Or just collect carpentry scraps and split off a bunch of kindling with a hatchet. It takes all of 10 minutes to fill a box.
I don't understand how come people burn fires to save money on heating bills, but buy products to start a fire with.
+1 on the possibility of having wet wood.
I too have tried a few different ways of starting my Fireview (I have to start it from cold a lot down here in NC). My favorite is to use fatwood. I am blessed in having an almost unlimited supply due to some pushed up stumps on my mother-in-laws property. I have heard the argument that fatwood burns with too much smoke and soot but I burn a good bit of pine and if you've ever messed with dry pine, you know that the knots are pretty much on their way to becoming fatwood if not there already.
Anyway...Dry wood+fatwood+newspaper=fire in my woodstove.
Kenny
Oh yeah . . . almost forgot . . . I also have my home-made fire starters which are sawdust and candle wax molded into the shape of Backwoods Savage splitting wood vertically . . . they kind of look like those fancy shaped soaps only with more sawdust.
So are you guys saying you can start a fire with a Super Cedar, with out using small stuff ???
Yeah, A Super Cedar is the size of a hockey puck, you only need a quarter of one to get things going. When I use a SC I grab a couple small splits (not kindling) for the bottom of the fire with bigger splits on top of that, I have the SC on the firebox floor in the middle of the pile of wood and with a simple click of the lighter your off and running.
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