Does that mean a girl wants to play on the baseball team? Ooooh! Watch out ....masculinity on the chopping block...
I use 3oz paper bathroom cups filled with noodles from cutting large rounds in half. I then add a little bit of lamp oil. I can get a lot fire starters out of this method and get it all at Walmart.
Well I do not live close to a Walmart but when in town I will buy 3 quartz of lamp oil at a time. That will last me 3 years.
The actual time I spend making these is probably less than 10 minutes. Hardest part is walking out to the shop and back to get the sawdust. Maybe I should keep a coffee can full of sawdust in the same cabinet where I keep the Gulf Wax. I've been eating eggs more often so I can make more, but the need should drop off once the OAT gets colder. Tried doing the toilet paper roll method, but I found it tough to get the wax to penetrate the sawdust far enough in the tube. Also, w/o a bandsaw, those are tough to cut into pucks. Anyone got cutting suggestions for those?
Bench vise, plank, 2 screws, screw gun, jigsaw, tp fire stater roll... I could draw a picture of a banana for yooperdave......
We use pine needles and slash. Both are items we need to remove around the house for fire mitigation. Two handfuls of pine needles will start a fire easy as can be. I need to get off my lazy butt and rake up a few trash bags worth before snow hits.
MacgyverVW I suppose I could try mounting the jigsaw upside down in the vise, then running the tube across the blade. No idea why I'd need the other stuff, but I'm not MacgyverDave.
Screw packed tp tube to board(plank), mount board vertical in vice, operate saw along horizontal plane (as if cutting pvc pipe), cut tube into pucks. Easy peasy, lemon squeezy. MacGyvering accomplished.
Let it go brother, let it go! My partner at work opened his lunch pail that his wife had packed to find a banana with a message written on it...."thinking of you" ! I asked him "so what are you two doing tonight?"
Never used a "homemade" firestarter in my life. It's always been either crumpled-up newspaper and small pieces of pine kindling, or paper birch bark.
Kindling , used fryer oil and a squirt can when I light the shoulder stove. Kindling and fryer oil soaked sawdust/bark/floor sweepings wadded up in newspaper balls to light the furnace. Tried a lot of different start processes over the years. I thnk every stove setup/location is different which plays a part in methodology . My furnace room is separate from the main part of a tri-level house. Doesn't matter how dirty it gets in there. Kinda doubles as a boot and work clothes storage drying area. I keep a 5 gallon pail with sawdust and bark chunks soaked down with used fryer oil to start fires. Not a big deal out of site from the Mrs. And an oil squirt can by the shoulder stove in the great room isn't a big deal either as long as she stays warm. Burning wood takes up a lot of room. I would imagine for most a small box of firestarters is more appealing than a big box of kindling next to the stove.
I agree with JustWood that different setups and different locations will have an impact on how you start your stoves. I do not use newspaper because of all the smoke I get, Sometimes on a cold stove the draft is not good enough. Just my location and setup so once it gets going then it drafts really well. Lamp oil has no smoke.
That's a darn gooder idea right there. I could back off on the egg intake doing it that way. Not that I wanna' do that, just sayin'................
My dad does a lot of woodworking, so I can get a paper sack full of sawdust any time I go to their house. And my mom goes to a lot of garage sales and buys candles for me when she comes across them for nearly free. Combine that with a stack of cardboard egg cartons above my kitchen cabinets and I can make about a year's worth of starters in 30 minutes.
