Pallet wood shagbark kindling filled up the kindling box, put some in the porch rack and put some in the house The ash the poplar
Yeah I can start a fire without kindling but when you put some up on top of the splits on a cold start it gets the top of the stove and the pipe hot real fast, that's what I'm looking for, less chance of forming creosote the faster everything gets hot.
That's what I tell myself after messing with any small stuff. It needed cleaned up and now the stove will stay warm for a few days - even if junk wood maybe it's a daytime fire I put up ~1/3cord of mangled trees like that after they cleared the powerlines last spring, still have a few more pieces of cherry & dogwood to grab.
There is a bunch of little dead ash around here, solid wood ready to burn, just can't see them going to waste
I need to read up on how to start a fire; I had guessed that I would need small pieces to use as starter.
some folks make their own firestarters with old candles and wood bits from the chainsaw. If you live around woods there will be no shortage of sticks falling, just get a couple of plastic totes fill one with small twigs and a second with stuff 1/2" and larger. a handful of each and some newspaper will get a stove going the old fashioned way. Keep an eye out in the woods for old rotten pines the pith will usually remain - good old fashioned fatwood a piece with some kindling and away you go
All you really need is good dry wood and a fire starter, I use Rutland fire starter squares, some people use Super Cedar Firestarters, some people make their own
I use to throw away all the sales flyers but now I save them. My friend told me that the coated ones don't tend to start like the non-coated paper flyers.
The coating is made from finely pulverized clay - thus doesn't burn very well. plain old newspaper sometimes you can find a route runner to hook you up with leftovers or just swing by the community recycle bin and grab a stack. Some firestarter threads will come along within weeks - I'm going to soak some cheap ALDI's charcoal in wax for a test run
Instead of, "No, I don't feel like cooking tonight!" to "Dear, we need more firestarter so we should order a pizza."
Dude, I SERIOUSLY hope you ate the pizza first. I still have a small stack of pizza boxes in the stove room.......they're decoration until burned.