Recent BL scraps/shards from the splitter burn nice in the firepit after a couple weeks in the sun on the deck. Had some mill scraps/slab wood from buzz-saw's that i cut to length and split into kindling today. Some pine and cedar plus elm. Rare i use hardwood for kindling. It will get mixed in.
Same. Except we haven't had a september to burn in yet. This will be our first fall with the wood stove. Sca
What we burned first half of '21, seasoned since mid '19. What we're burning second half of '21 will be from fall of '19. Now we've finally got 3 years of wood on hand, we should be using wood drier than a year and a half. Maybe learning about different starters would be something to do. Sca
I don't have the ability to do totes here, so I built the 'shorts shed' for shorts, and a shelf for kindling. Just hoping it'll dry in the summer heat. (Shelf in back of shed) 10' long 2' tall.
I once looked at a job. Their teenage son tossed a car tire inside their fireplace while they were on vacation. They wanted me to get the melted rubber off the hearth LOL I told em to have their son get it off or I could replace the stone. Never heard back.
What do you mean? Are you referring to a lack of a forklift or machinery that can move it? I just kind of set mine in place and forget it. I have had to move 3 in the past. 1 was full so I just emptied it out halfway and then waddled it a few feet (code enforcement officer was busting my chops about it being too close to the house). The other 2 were empty and easy to move by hand. I just rolled the cages over and over to get to where I needed to go (off the driveway, moved about 40 ft). No big deal at all. Kindling is light enough that I just get a container's worth and carry it back to the house.
Partly the inability to find them inexpensively, move them around, and that the neighborhood doesn't want to see them. I'm going to stain or paint the shed in the pic just to get it more finished looking. If I had space and visual barriers, I'd have a big ol tractor...... Sca
Thanks. I didnt taste it but admittedly did sniff the cedar...more than once. Something only us crazy wood people would understand. Those will be bundled and sold, the "scraps" from it i use. I use old birdfeed bags for storage too. Works great.
If you're rich then I'm rich too. Crappy kindling. Should be split into little sticks those lazy bastards.
I use Fatwood. I use about three sticks to light off a stove full of splits. Maybe could get away with less but I don’t mind paying for the convenience. I bought a box of long brown fire starters from one of those large companies that make the compressed logs. Can’t think of the name. Anyway if you see them don’t bother buying them. They look and feel like something the dog would leave in the yard and burn just the same. Hard to believe a large company would market something like that.
I use 2 sticks of fatwood and several handfuls of kindling. Fatwood is great but I wish it were made here. I guess it must be cheaper to make in Honduras.
