Does anyone still use kindling?

Are these just random sticks he grabs out of a pile and says hey playtime!

 

I grabbed cedar fences off CL, cut them up and throw them in the tote tank I use for kindling.
I also have a box under my splitter, the little stuff that falls in goes into the tote also.
We keep a bucket of kindling on the porch, and my wife often empties it into the stove

 

We have woods all around us. Every time Ruger goes out he runs and picks up something to play with. Sticks from the woods, splits, tire chalks, a quarter of tranny fluid, rag, glove, hat, 2x4, a bucket, a mouthful of grass, you name it.
He is a riot!

 

I do love him.
Labs have SO much personality! Can't help but smile just thinking about him. Makes it hard to leave for work in the morning

 

Around here when people replace their old fencing they cut up the old cedar into small sections and put out by street for pickup. I always pick up several and leave it out in the sun all summer.
In the fall I cut it up short to fit in milk crates and stack them.
Usually go thru a couple of the crates in shoulder seasons. Fire usually doesn't go out from Nov - March
Never use matches map gas with click start!

 

He is
I know ya love him , can't help but
He was the one almost got ahold of my pop bottle last year

 

Thats one happy lab!

 

I've been using these, $10. for 100 packets at the local stove store.

 

I use kindling when I have it, but hate making it. Splitting small sticks even smaller with an 8 pound axe scares the bejeepers out of me. Well, recently, I had an epiphany. I like knives and was watching a few you-tubes and you know how it goes. You start at one video and wind up who knows where, but I came across this mysterious term - "batoning". So I did a search for batoning and after watching a few videos of these "survivalist" types batoning, I saw a use for it.

Now I am certainly not a survivalist and absolutely detest camping, but making kindling would be right up the idea of batoning. So, a perusal of the local flyers, I see a 6 1/2 inch no-name fixed blade knife on sale for $10, down from $30. A reviewer even mentions it is good for batoning. So I am on my way uptown to get me a "kindling maker" and I can even use the bleeding thing to carve me out a really nice "whacking stick", or baton, to beat said item.

 

I do the same. Works great!

 

I'm going to try that out with my new Woodman's Pal

 

I would not want to meet anybody in the woods holding on to one of those.

 

I know that's right
They were actually designed as a weapon and a survival tool
From what I understand they are still issued to some military


The History and Explanation of The Woodman's Pal

 

I take that back they didn't design it as weapon,, but obviously when issued to the military could be used as one.

 

Must have been useful for someone who got handy with it....

 

I use a lot of kindling. I have a small stove and it goes out pretty frequently even in cold weather. A few sticks of dry kindling on marginal coals will get the fire going a lot faster than whole splits will.

 

what is the kindling wood Wood Duck? Picked up a bunch of dry western white pine boards about 9 inches or so. Very easily split it feels like sin doing it but guaranteed to flame though.