It will be like the first time you had sex. You will want to kill yourself for not doing it before.
May just have to try it next fall when I light the stove .
It will be like the first time you had sex. You will want to kill yourself for not doing it before.
Newspaper knots, pffft, can't believe I ever used those myself. They work well enough if that is what you have. Check out my Magic Oak Noodles!My first year burning I used paper knots and smaller splits to get a fire going. It sometimes used quite a bit of paper!! lol
Andrew
I love the TP tube idea!I use a couple different things.
- Dryer lint and toilet paper tubes (you take your dryer lint and cram it in the toilet paper tube and it only takes a couple to get a log cabin started.
- Pine cones
If I use them both together it works even better and they are both free
I tried pine cones dipped in candle wax. OK, but then a member from Texas
put me onto pine cones soaked in kerosene. Just so happens I had a bunch
of Y2K kerosene. Heh! Too old now to use for anything other than cleaning
greasy auto parts- but boy does it enhance pine cones! Easy starting this
way. This has been so successful and reliable a method for me that I'd no
longer even bother trying other methods. But Super Cedars definitely are
awesome! Guess I've got a poor man's form of them. BTW old, sour
kerosene seems to have a very long shelf life in this particular application.
May not be a good idea if you have a catalytic wood stove.
BTW let me hasten to add that Kerosene is about the only accelerant I would
consider using this way. I know of no other which has all the necessary
properties. Many are quite explosive, like gasoline, etc.- or the flame spread
is too fast, whereas Kerosene is pretty slow.
Think of it this way- you've heard of kerosene lanterns, right? Or oil lanterns,
etc. But not gasoline lanterns, right? There you go...
I've come to think of cones and kero as quite a safe and reliable method.
YMMV...
Next best are. Rutland Safe Lite Fire Starter Squares $13 ,144-Squares
Fatwood is from the stumps of conifers. It has concentrated resins in the "sticks". They light well enough but they give off a black smoke. I used to buy them in 30lb boxes from Plow &Hearth catalogue. LL Bean is the next volumn seller.
I put them on top of newspaper and then pile kindling on top of fatwood sticks(3-4).
But I process 5cords of wood a year from trees harvested from my own woodlot. I have all the kindling Im willing to pick up.
I like the kerosene soaked pine cones idea, it sounds effective. I think Ive seen smudgepots in Plow & Hearth as well.
Ummm....
But your point is still valid.
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