I plan to add a bucket hook to my new splitter and throw all the splinter crap that happens when you're splitting.
I use hard wood.. cherry black walnut or maple.. kiln dried.. from local furniture manufacturer.. fill car run thru chop saw.. done no muss no fuss.. but with new stove IS I always have coals so not much is used anymore... all scraps go to bonfire.. that's how ya celebrate when done a few drinks around fire!
I usually get kiln dried cut offs from a furniture manufacturer. But so far this year I haven't been able to get it. But luckily, with the new IS, I don't have much need for kindling. After 12 or so hours there's still plenty of coals to get a fire started.
I've always been partial to soft maple for kindling because it splits so super easy, lights off super fast and it will still give coals if you need them, but that is minor as we don't need coals from kindling as kindling is used just to help get the bigger stuff to catch fire quicker. btw, making kindling, especially using soft maple is really fast, simple and fun making using the hydraulic splitter. I look forward to making some every year and will save out any logs that don't hand knots just for making kindling. I usually make the kindling a bit smaller but in the pictures below the wood was starting to turn a bit punky so I made it bigger so it would not break up when splitting. It still worked great.
I prefer vertical. I tried horizontal with the X27 and didn't like it at all. ~smile~ Sent from my XT1030 using Tapatalk
Great technique Dennis I split like that too, but it's the one time I'll choose horizontal non- vertical
I only use two or three pieces of kindling at a time, split them to 1x1 to 1 1/2". Biggest source is pallet wood which are usually 3/4 thick, sticks from trees I cut ,from the yard, from the woods, splitter scraps, Shagbark Hickory bark, old cedar fence rails, I have made quite a bit of kindling from Ash because it splits so nice n straight and I can make kindling down to 1x1" easy. All the pine I have ever had does not make good kindling because it's just too knotty. Oh yeah I forgot Poplar makes great kindling
Whatever falls off the splitter, or falls off of trees around the yard, plus lumber cutoffs. Don't have to start too many fires with the owb - usually just in the shoulders.
