Homemade fire starters...on the cheap.

Might have something to do with cheep beer ?

 

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Thank you for sharing!! What an awesome thread, not sure how I missed this. I am running super low on firestarters and was going to head down to tractor supply this weekend.

But I'd love to start making my own, I need to start setting aside some of my wood shavings, looks like fun I am booking marking this one!

 

ReelFaster You can also use dryer lint to make firestarters.

 

Thank you, good to know! So I could substitute the wood shavings with the lint?

 

You could use either. Whatever you have available at the time. Cardboard egg cartons and wax are the only 2 other things you need. I got a lot of dryer lint when I cleaned out the exhaust pipe from the dryer. I keep an empty coffee can by the dryer for my wife to throw the lint into when she cleans the lint trap. Don't have to wait for the lint to dry either.

 

Awesome info, thanks so much, gonna try this out.....!

 

When I used to have more time to make firestarters.

Lazy man's cheeseburger fire starters

 

Can't wait to try making some, kids will love doing this with me!

 

For those of you that use noodles to make fire starters, does it make any difference whether or not the noodles are dry to freshly cut from a green piece of wood? I had to noodle a couple pieces of oak today and I picked up the noodles and put them in a burlap sack.

 

I bet by the time you get ready to make the starters, they'll be just fine.

Such a delicate thin stirp of wood can't retain much moisture.

 

I just finished the annual fire starter chore yesterday. Two hundred paper muffin tin liner cups (Walmart sells 300 for $4), sawdust from our table saw, and paraffin wax, melted on an old marine alcohol stove.

 

^^^dedicated!

 

Anyone try shredded office paper (by itself, no wax or accelerant)?

 

Yes. I think it definitely works BETTER than sawdust! Easier to light. (But I no longer have an office so no access to shredded paper.)

Also I’m going to go back to 3oz Dixie cups instead of paper muffin tin liners. The paper cups are falling off the wax/sawdust puck and as a result they are hard to keep lighted. Dixie cups stay in contact with the wax/sawdust puck and burn hotter/longer than the thin paper muffin tin so it works more like a wick and starts the wax/sawdust puck burning better and quicker.

 

How much wax did the 200 cup batch take and do you use kindling in addition to the cups?

 

I used all of a ten pound block of candle wax from Hobby Lobby. I do not use kindling when I use these starters. They burn hot and long enough that they start full size splits pretty consistently

 

Interesting, I may have to give this a try.

 

Works particularly well for a top down fire. The wax melts and spreads down through the pile of firewood.