Where I work at about once a week when the crate shop scap dumpster gets full they will give it to any emloyee that wants it. It works real good on starting fires and running a couple of stove loads through my moma bear the old girl is HOT and ready for some good seasoned wood. The wood is pine 1 x 5 2 x 4 and 2 x 6. Does this sound like good kindling to yal? What do yall use? 1 thing I read about several years ago was the dryer lint was good to start a fire and boy was they right !!
I agree, pine is a great starter for a cold stove. I get simular sizes as Grizz when I take scraps from the job sites. Mostly pine, spruce and fir. I cut the scraps for length and then use the splitter to size them down, it works great.
I found a source for kindling like that years ago, got greedy and brought home so much I ran outa places to put it. Dangit, that's all used & gone, the source dried up and now I'm always looking for kindling. Using smaller sticks from tops, splitter trash and splitter-smashed uglies for now.
Yea a place to put is the problem. I would get every load I could if It was not for that. It got to be in the dry and I just barely got enough room for my lawn mower lol Every dry spot on the place is full of woodWife says no more lol
I use every piece of the wood. I always burn all the scaps that pile up under the wood buster. Maybe not a good idea becuse its usualy green but I do it.
I use about 4 wheelbarrow loads worth of the larger kindling pieces for the entire winter. Since I can get it easily I don't worry about stocking up. I put just what I need under my back deck and cover it. Since it's kiln dried (which doesn't mean much these days) the remaining moisture lessens by the time October rolls around and I'm good to go.
I go by the pallet shop in town and pick up lumber scraps too. Frankly, its what got me through last winter. If it wasn't for that, I would have froze. I haven't picked up any this year at all since I now have dry wood, but I should do that anyway before it gets cold out and reminds the other people around here to snag it all.
Great kindling wood and also great to hold some fires in shoulder season. We had lots of cut-offs after an building an addition and one fall we burned for about a month using the scraps. We have always made kindling from soft maple but don't use as much as we used to. We also use Super Cedars for lighting the fire no matter if we have kindling or not. Makes a great starter. The pictures below the wood was just a little punky so I made the pieces a little larger so they'd hold together. Still worked like a charm. Making kindling like this using hydraulics is super fast and I love to do it.
Love the pics there !!!! Sounds like you found some great kindling wood GRIZ ! Ive been known to run out of kindling... And start widdling down 2x4's to get by
The Man, The Myth......The LEGEND. Love seeing pics of the "Sav" working his splitter on the milk crate. That's how she's done, boys and girls....
I've been very blessed the last 3 or 4 years as a couple that we met and became good friends with, the guy has a hardwood saw mill and also a wood working shop that he builds several different candle style boxes for a craft lady. He gives me 2 or 3 of the large dog food bags full of scraps every fall.
I get tons of kindling every year from various sources. Scrap softwood construction lumber from jobsite dumpsters I'm working at,slivers etc from hand splitting everything,scrap from my shop,twigs from the yard,corn cobs from feeding the squirrels etc etc.... Several lidded metal trash cans full in backyard,a few big cardboard boxes in garage/shop.To keep the amount under control since I'm constantly accumulating more a couple days in late Spring and & early Fall I burn nothing but kindling in the house,a few handfuls at a time..... Plus sister gets a lot of branch stubs,offcuts/scrap from the Granberg Alaskan mill,stuff that's too big for the kindling barrels but too small for the wood stacks for her firepit. At parents place in the woods I save everything down to 1" that isn't soft or punky.Doing regular cleanup or pruning at my place here in town I save everything down to almost 1/2",just to cut down on the amount of brush I have to dispose of.When doing tree removals either the occasional paid job or a CL score,I normally will NOT haul away the brush - unless they pay me extra.
If anybody lives near me and can come this weekend on Saturday or Sunday I've got a big pile of kindling that isn't needed.... Free for the taking! Griz that goes for you too if your near me.
