Starting a Stove Fire

[Diggin It]

I use jelled hand sanitizer myself. Couple of squirts and it's off ti the races.:laughing:

I don't understand.

It's alcohol based. And sticks to stuff. Like napalm.

 

[Industrial Toys]

Oh, I get it. I thought the subject was getting wood to dry out after cutting. Home made napalm, gasoline and laundry detergent.

 

[rockinmywaypa]

I don't understand.


I wonder what kind of industry I could go to that has dressed hard wood scrap cheap or for the taking, for use as kindling.

Industrial. if you happen to have any furniture builders around then there is a good source of super dry small cuts to get a fire going. You may have to do a little dumpster diving though dince they may have contractors taking it away.

 

[rockinmywaypa]

Or if you want to get together for a coffee I can give you a half a load of barn boards since the wind blew our barn down.

 

[Industrial Toys]

Thanks. Are the barn boards not pine. This area was ripe with furniture builders. Many, giving the (all gone now) railroads a lot of business. There is Durham furniture, but I bet you, those scraps are accounted for, given the high cost of heating.

 

[goeduck]

Exactly!
I've never experimented with this theory, but heard some old timers say:
Drop a tree with leaves on it, and let it lie on the ground with the branches and leaves on, the leaves will suck water out of it. ???

Similarly, if you cut a live tree in winter, will the wood be drier than if you cut it in summer

Well if you pull a bunch of carrots and do not take the tops off the carrots get rubbery quicker because the roots are feeding the tops reducing moisture in the root.

It is different with trees but the leaves would certainly be a place for evaporation of moisture.

As to the cutting about the only way to tell is to cut two of the same size trees one in the summer and one in the winter but cut them at the same time so you can tell which dries faster
:shocked: :hypnodisk: :shocked:

 

[5030]

It's alcohol based. And sticks to stuff. Like napalm.

Exactly and burns hot too. I like the little dispensers with the push to dispense tops. Put it right where you need it, a match and off to the races (provided the wood is dry).

 

[rockinmywaypa]

Thanks. Are the barn boards not pine. This area was ripe with furniture builders. Many, giving the (all gone now) railroads a lot of business. There is Durham furniture, but I bet you, those scraps are accounted for, given the high cost of heating.

yes the boards are pine and dry too. I've been cutting them about 10 inches or so and splitting for kindling to get the real wood going hence the name of the thread,

 

[Industrial Toys]

I guess I have used dry pine to god effect as kindling. But nothing beats the foot long inch by inch (approx) sticks I used to get from a customer (now gone) Hanover Kitchens.

 

[Doofy]

I just buy "Fatwood" which is made from old resin rich pine stumps (I think). Super dry and not a bit sticky but they light easily and burn like a torch. I use three each time I build a fire so a 10 pound box lasts me a whole season or two.