How do you Kindle?

Unlimited amount of 1x6 pallet boards from work. chop them to 12" lengths and split with hatchet. All while being paid, OF COURSE

PA. Woodsman said:

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!

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Most standard newsprint uses soy based ink, black and white and color. It's cheaper so they really have no reason not to. I do stay away from glossy/shiny paper though. Who knows what's needed to print on that. Or chipboard like cereal boxes . Supposedly use mineral oil based inks.
It doesn't take much paper to get really dry pine branches and twigs going. Sometimes just a couple of envelopes headed for the recycle bin. I don't use cardboard because who knows what they've used for glue, but that's probably safe too.
Once you start getting bombarded with AARP advertising there's a supply of paper right there. LOL

Well since a couple years ago a telephone pole broke & fell over the fence into our Hayfield... (an untreated... western red CEDAR pole) cut it into rounds and Gran dpa's old meat cleaver makes it into Awesome kindling

I just take home pallet scraps from work. Cut them up with the circular saw and split to size with a hatchet. Usually pine and oak wood so, it's a good mix for kindling. I keep a 50 gallon barrel in my garage and if it's full I start filling buckets.

hickoryhoarder said:

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.

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I do the same, and then tie them into small bundles about the size of a split. One bundle usually lights a fire. But I'm running out of bundles. I need a bigger yard, or trees that aren't as healthy.

I have a Blaze King, I can't remember what I used to kindle, September was a long time ago!

AlbergSteve said:

I have a Blaze King, I can't remember what I used to kindle, September was a long time ago!

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That aint nothing. Been around 3 years since I cut any kindling. Thank you Rutland.

I rake up the left overs of splitting into a box and I use fatwood. I just get a big box on Amazon.

Plenty of old pine branches around the yard.

Lots of chips lying around where I use the maul.

Once I start the season the stove runs weeks at a time

Lots of white cedar in my woods. There are always some down ones that get cut and stacked. I always throw in a few straight ones, split nice and fine and you can't find better kindling!

Bought a house last winter. Gutting a basement that was semi finished. Cop saw all the pine and split with a hatchet putting it in a box. Doesn't take much to get going. Sometimes I'll throw a few on the coals in the morning to get a restart. First year burning so I'm learning the stove more each week.