Bought a box of 100 unwrapped Super Cedars for $55 shipped in Feb 2011.I still have half the box left....they really last a long time since I break each one into 4 or 5 pieces.... I break up 5 or 6 into an old 3lb metal coffee can with lid stored on the floor next to hearth.Storing them in the can catches the crumbs - those are poured out onto the shavings/kindling before adding more from the main box.
That's my experience. I quarter mine but I only light a couple fires a week. I go through about 20 Super Cedars a season on the high side.
After an addition and remodeling a few years ago we had lots of cut-offs. Actually did not use many for kindling though as we just burned them up during the fall months. Even had some left over for the next spring. And the Super Cedars, they are great.
I'd love to try them but I light about 3 fires a day at least. I'd go broke if I had to buy the stuff.
We still use paper, cardboard and kindling around here, we always have an excess of that paper and cardboard lying around anyway, so starting fires is one way to get rid of it. For sure I'd be using Super Cedars if we had an excess of them lying around too, but for some reason we just don't seem to have that same problem with supercedars that we do with the paper and cardboard. Of course I still need kindling, and that requires a little more effort. For the last few years we had been burning the old wood siding we stripped off the house, but that's all been used up, so we are back to making kindling from our cord wood, and that is a bit of a chore, not to mention it slowly eats into our wood supply. I know of little mill that leaves a pile of cedar mill ends in front of their place for the public to take for these sorts of things, maybe I'll stop by and see what they have.....?
I made boxes full of fatwood starters out of ancient pine barn beams last fall and let me tell you, wow do they ever take off when lit! One match, a small pile of splitter scraps, and its off to the races!! I used the scrap ends off of my mantel and mantel standoffs to make the kindling, then cut it into 4" strips in bundles on the miter saw. I've got enough of them for several years, but I'm going to make more because they are fun to make!!
