I spent about 45 minutes after dinner making pine kindlin. It goes quick with hydraulics. Ended up making 4 bundles and filling a good size crate. Goal is a half cord by the burn season to get us through. Enjoy the pics.......
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Thanks. With the cooler temps, I have to work with wood, even if its kindlin'
Tomorrow night low 42F, now thats what I'm talking about!
Tomorrow night low 42F, now thats what I'm talking about!
I'm getting stoked........it's almost burning season!!
I spent the past two evenings splitting that chestnut oak.......you can almost feel fall in the air.
I know! It's a great feeling.
90* here today in Eastern WA ugh. I filled my truck up with another load and came home and split half of it today. It was a 2 shower day. Looking forward to October and burning some of this stuff
I love making kindling using hydraulics. Really makes it fun and it goes super fast too.
The cold will come real soon. 90* is tough working conditions.
Dennis, do you have a favorite wood species for kindlin?
Never thought of using the splitter for kindling. I pick up the broken branches around the property and woods. And I'll occasionally buy a bag of kindling. Now, I'm thinking to give the splitter a try.
Yes. Soft maple is our favorite. It splits super easy, lights super easy and burns hot. Just have to watch it when splitting because soft maple is one of those that will send a few pieces of kindling over to your neighbor! Or they will sting you if your are in the way. Never seen anyone get hurt but have seen a few new dances.
The splitter works awesome. Definitely try it.
I had a couple flying tonight. Def need the eye protection for them little guys.
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That's roughly the size i split my kindling into. Mine might be even smaller yet....kindling that is.
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Soft maple and sas will be kindling/shoulder wood this year (gotta couple pallets laying aroung too) 
Installing my blockoff plate and painting my stove pipe today!
Installing my blockoff plate and painting my stove pipe today!
I've never realized that kindling could be split too small...
I use toothpicks for shoulder season. Hehe...
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This is my kindling production line. I get oak pallets form an OPE store near me.I cut them up with the radial saw and them split them smaller with an ax.
I have about 1/4 cord cut up in the basement and another 2 truck loads that needs to be cut up.
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This is the bin I picked up at a flea market last week. It's at least 100 years old. Have no idea what it was used for originally. The bag holds plenty of kindling. Don't fill it to the top and fold it over so it sheds water. I figure I might be able to fit 6 bags worth in there.
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Used the 5 ton electric splitter today to make some kindling. Backwoods Savage aka, Dennnis was right on the money. I tried using a hatchet and the split just laughed at me. Much easier and faster with the splitter. And like Dennis said, fun, too.
I am using an empty chicken feed bag that is made out of the same material as a tarp to keep the kindling in. Works great and I can keep it in my kindlin' bin outside on the deck.
Used the 5 ton electric splitter today to make some kindling. Backwoods Savage aka, Dennnis was right on the money. I tried using a hatchet and the split just laughed at me. Much easier and faster with the splitter. And like Dennis said, fun, too.
I am using an empty chicken feed bag that is made out of the same material as a tarp to keep the kindling in. Works great and I can keep it in my kindlin' bin outside on the deck.
That's the size I split my Pine to. You can damn near light those with a match. This year, I'm getting some Tulip Poplar that my wife's cousin wants to get rid of (not that I don't have some dead Tulip that I could cut here.) I'm going to split that a bit bigger than the Pine. Then I'll build some fires top-down, with a couple little pieces of newspaper, a few of the tiny Pine sticks, and a couple of bigger Poplar sticks on top of that, in the top/front of the load. I'll be interested to see how the Tulip works for start-ups. Should burn a little hotter and faster than the soft Maple, I would think??
Does anyone else collect the scraps from the splitter? I just started doing it and got 2 burlaps full of good size slivers I figure it will be great kindling!
I've been doing that for YEARS. I only save the "good" ones (the wood slivers, no bark or punk junk) and pack those slivers in large cardboard boxes. I put the boxes in my barn loft and bring them out as I need them. Great kindling for sure.
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