Marketing kindling

[Fuelmaker]

In our business of collecting and processing scrap wood and sawdust into bricks, we have noticed several good sources of scrap that make excellent kindling but are either burned in a pile once in a while or have to be fed into a mill of some sort and moved with the sawdust, which generally ruins the sawdust for any kind of bedding use.

I saw some shrink wrapped scrap at Lowe's once, but it looked like a messy operation to shrink wrap it and palletize it. What do people here think of buying kindling? We could include a few boxes with every pallet of bricks, but would have to figure out how to pack it in a similar solid box. It is a huge waste to grind up perfectly dry wood and make it into bricks that can't get wet. We even have a few sources that have significant quantities of cut-off blocks from truss-making and other processes that could be stacked and sold as is. Is the low density and fast burn of kiln-dried pine and poplar too much of a hassle to bother with in a wood stove? How do other people use scrap wood?

 

[smokinj]

I sell wood and people love it when you set some small kindle to the side like that, because a lot of people really dont know or have what it takes to get a fire going.

 

[Fuelmaker]

Have you developed sources of that scrap? Do you pick it up from them? It seems to be too sharp to bag. Do your customers just pick it out of a pile by hand or do you have it bundled or boxed? That gave me an idea to get scrap to the firewood bundlers so they could put a few pieces in every 3/4 cubic foot firewood bundle. Do you bundle firewood for sale through the grocery stores and convenience stores?

 

[smokinj]

Have you developed sources of that scrap? Do you pick it up from them? It seems to be too sharp to bag. Do your customers just pick it out of a pile by hand or do you have it bundled or boxed? That gave me an idea to get scrap to the firewood bundlers so they could put a few pieces in every 3/4 cubic foot firewood bundle. Do you bundle firewood for sale through the grocery stores and convenience stores?

we just split the splits down very small and use bailing twine and tie them up there about 8-10 inch's around and 10-16 in length

 

[quads]

I sell a little firewood in small amounts, mostly to campers and fireplace burners. I keep a supply of kindling that I hand split from my firewood. I offer a free armful of it to each of my customers. The campers almost never take it. The fireplace burners almost always take it.

 

[smokinj]

I sell a little firewood in small amounts, mostly to campers and fireplace burners. I keep a supply of kindling that I hand split from my firewood. I offer a free armful of it to each of my customers. The campers almost never take it. The fireplace burners almost always take it.

yep right now with it getting cold they are all loving it,but most I am selling to right now have lp furnaces and they know what that going to cost....