How do you Kindle?

[darktower007]

Not Jenner! Lol

As in how much do you keep on hand?
Favorite type of wood to kindle?
Do you use a hatchet or a splitter device?



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[Bigger_Al]

 

[Mojappa]

Last year I used one of those metal tins that the tri-flavored popcorn comes in to hold kindling. I would just top it off as needed using a hatchet and hammer to shave kindling on a pretty big slab I brought in. I try not to make kindling intentionally when I’m splitting since any split can be split down farther if need be, but since my aim isn’t great I ended up with quite a bit. Stacked it in the rows initially, pulled them out as I brought the wood up to the house. Probably have a seasons worth about which says a lot about my splitting skills lol

 

[firefighterjake]

I have more kindling than I will ever need . . . since I have stripped off 3 1/2 walls of cedar shingles from my garage this fall.

Most of my kindling in the past has come from softwood though . . . cedar is my go to favorite species to split into kindling, but I also use pine, fir, spruce, etc.

Mostly I use my splitter to make the kindling.

 

[paulnlee]

Don't need much since the stove runs from Oct to May and this year into June. I get plenty just from the scraps. Between Oct to May I only start maybe 3 fires.

 

[EODMSgt]

I don't use much either as the stove goes 24/7 and if it gets low, one or two pieces of fatwood on the embers gets it going again.

With that being said, I have three 33-gallon roll trash cans (vented) full of scraps from cutting many cords just in case. In addition, all I have to do is walk outside and there is always kindling (branches) from the trees laying around (thanks to our endless supply of wind).

 

[Woodsplitter67]

It hasent really been cold enough to go nonstop burning. I may burn 4 days in a row thats about it. My stove is cold right now and probably won't light it tonight. That being said we actually did kindling today. All of my kindling is all walnut this time. Im sitting on about 90 lbs worth. I take some splits and cut them in half then put them thorough the splitter. There like a 1in to 1.25 in square.

 

[CentralVAWoodHeat]

We don't use kindling anymore. I stopped years ago once I started letting my wood dry to below 20% moisture.

I just put a fire starter in between the stacked pieces, light it up, and away it goes.

 

[weatherguy]

We got one guy in Jersey saying he burns non-stop until May and another saying it's not cold enough to burn full time

 

[Jazzberry]

I haven't used a single pice of kindling since I learned about Rutland Fire Starters a few years ago.

 

[paulnlee]

We got one guy in Jersey saying he burns non-stop until May and another saying it's not cold enough to burn full time

Depends on % body fat just like moisture %. Since I walk so much I'm a skinny old fart(74) and get cold if it's below 74 inside.

 

[Woodsplitter67]

My house is kinda tight. At 9am my house was 70 degrees, I let the stove go cold after an over night burn. At 8.30 pm my house just dropped from 68 to 67 degrees and my stove haddent run. There was some wind going on but its just not enough to cool the house. I could open the windows and doors but that's just a wasted heat.
@paulnlee is north jersey near rt 31. I pass that way to go fishing. Hes close to nort eastern Pennsylvania .. while im in southern nj close to Delaware. Dont get me wrong, it gets cold here.. been in the negative digits but higs in the mid 40s and lows in the mid 30s does not equal 24/7 buring.

 

[darktower007]

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[rowerwet]

I take old cedar fences off Craigslist, cut up with the sawzall, they are perfect.
Lath strips from an old house are also excellent.
My current stock is scraps of kiln dried wood from a pallet factory

 

[EODMSgt]

Fat wood has really taken the place of kindling for me and it makes it so easy to rekindle embers in the bottom of the stove. A couple pieces of fat wood in the bottom (I prop them against the lip just inside the door so air flows underneath), light and put a couple nice dry pieces of wood on top and it starts every time. If there are still embers I just drop one or two pieces on the embers and stack a couple pieces of wood on top. Don't even have to light the fatwood.

 

[Ridgewood]

I got the Kindling Cracker - makes easy/short work of breaking down wood for kindling:

http://a.co/d/f12pgDh

And I guess it was invited by some 13 yr old girl from New Zealand: https://www.kindlingcracker.ee/about

 

[hickoryhoarder]

When I have red oak on hand, I split logs or splits into kindling size. With a maul. It's very easy. Splits easier after a year or so of seasoning. About 95% of my kindling is red oak. I also use cherry -- it's incredibly easy to split. But doesn't make a nice blaze as oak does. Red oak has a lot of BTUs, but seems to have a relatively low kindling point.

If white pine is available, it is very easy to split when green. And makes good kindling, seasons in about 4 months.

I store kindling in a six-foot long log rack, with a cover. In the driveway. This system has worked really well.

I also keep a 30 gallon trash can of dead twigs and branches from the yard. As I pick them up, I snap them into about one-foot lengths. Top on can, sitting under the soffit by the house, out of rain. Not sure why I didn't think of that idea years ago.

 

[PA. Woodsman]

Silver Maple, Ash, Cherry, Sassafras, Poplar I make kindling from, just use the old log splitter and slice the pieces thin like at a deli!

 

[Woody5506]

Clean pallet wood! Usually just split with my fiskars hatchet.

 

[EPS]

Scraps from hand splitting, twigs and birch bark from the woods, also i trim off the slivers from each log before putting them in the stove so I have something small to start with the next time. I also teach at a high school and fetch as much untreated wood scraps from the wood shop classes as possible.

 

[billb3]

I've got piles and piles of pine branches. They snap into usable pieces rather readily once they have dried out in 9 or 12 months. Also have plenty of pine from whence those pine branches came from. The few straight pieces that are not naughty might get split small. Dry pine on hot coals ignite rather readily. Doesn't take much newspaper to get them going in a cold stove either.

 

[PA. Woodsman]

Doesn't take much newspaper to get them going in a cold stove either.

I have had such a tough time finding black and white newspaper here for the last few years, they have switched over to many pages being color which I can't use for starting fires. Is this the same in your area, just curious?

Thank you!

 

[paulnlee]

Why can't you use color? The Easton Express burns fine

 

[PA. Woodsman]

Why can't you use color? The Easton Express burns fine

Color print supposedly gives off toxic fumes when burned.

 

[KJamesJR]

I think it's Kendall Jenner.

We don't use it. We've been burning 24/7 since we put the stove in. I think I've only needed to do a cold start once or twice. Some birch bark works fine. Or a propane torch.