Doing some pine this afternoon. Rounds are fairly knotty so I'm not getting a lot of kindling. I have a couple of pine logs I put aside debarked 3 years ago to maybe slab and that's not happening so I may cut some rounds short, like maybe 8 inches for quicker kindling and see how much faster that is. I found the splitting maul head with the broken off handle and the handle I bought a while ago so I fixed it and tested it out. The rounds needed splitting .
Nice pile o' kindling, rebelduckman . I loves me lots of nice, dry kindling, gets the stove chooin' quick!
I kinda thought that was your total wood pile for this winter......im sorry....i just had to pick on somebody from the south...NICE KINDLIN..
I recently upped my kindling game. I’m splitting pine much thinner than I had been and using more of it. Really gets the stove going a lot faster.
Hey Rebel, that is some nice looking kindling. I see you painted some of it! Sorry, couldn't help myself there. We just don't have any of that pretty wood here.
No red cedar in MI? We have it in NH, maybe ornamental, but I get some fairly often. You might have it there, but you'd be scavenging it out of peoples' yards.
Just finished up my new wood shed complete with a separate area for kindling. You got the right idea, do it now. Nothing worse than running out on cold azz day midwinter .
I usually cut up a small dead standing cedar and fill up a few buckets. But just today I picked up a interior door and some trim from my local and only family owned lumber yard and mill shop...he asked if I was still burning wood...heck yeah I said...he asked If I wanted the end cuts and scraps from the mill shop....I told him I would take everything he was willing to give...my barn always has room for more.
Good to see another southern feller on here. I have some friends that live in Rainesville and Mentone Al. We are over in mid-state GA.
My friend stopped in the other day to chat, and said that he had just got some kindling from a slab pile over in Wayne, Maine; a ride of about 1-1/2 hours from here. I kind of laughed because I have a huge pile on top of the hill from the sawing I have been doing. He could have got all he needed a mile from home. I was in no way laughing at him, just laughing at how a lack of communication can make things so much harder for people. It was in NO WAY his fault of course, just too bad he did not know before hand. :-(
There is lots of cedar in MI, especially northern MI. We just don't have much here. I do have a couple small cedar on our place but they will stay.
Here's our kindling hoard. Got some cut, more to process. A couple lighter stumps and one prime piece of fat wood, sure wish y'all could smell that, it's strong.
