Anyone know where you can purchase kindling?
Posted by mantl7fan on 12/13 at 03:08 PM
I was surprised that Gardners does not sell kindling!
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Buy kindling? Thats the silliest thing Ive ever heard of.
Old sticks from the yard work okay, but the best is “fat lighter” or “fat wood”, which is easy enough to find. Go out in the woods with an ax and find an old pine stump. Chop it up. It is usually very hard, and orange looking inside. It has a sharp, slightly sweet odor. It can also be lit with a match, and will burn hot. All it is, is the sap-soaked pine wood from the old tree. Its like wood soaked in turpentine. Starts great fires!
Im lucky I have a lot of them on my property, and cut one up every now and then with a chainsaw. They’re pretty tough.
Comment by: therealist on 12/14 at 08:51 AM
Thanks for the tips.
I was asking the question for an elderly couple.
I retired my axe, chainsaw and maul years ago after using a wood burning fireplace and insert as my sole heating source for too many years.
Comment by: mantl7fan on 12/14 at 12:38 PM
Check at the local hardware store. We sell it at ours up here. I think its kind of funny, but the people up here don’t see the humor in it. I tell them in the south we walk out in the back yard and just cut up what we need. Guess they don’t have the right kind of pine trees around here.
Comment by: kingfish on 12/14 at 08:59 PM
I can buy fat lighter at hardware stores out here on the west coast. The company that produces it has offices in VA. Great for lighting charcoal but produces lots of smoke (not optimal for use in urban settings.)
Comment by: Ted King on 01/24 at 01:46 PM
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I’m surprised that people buy kindling down here… don’t y’all just chop up some or use the little bits of sticks in your yards?
(they do have fire-starter bricks at BiLo, though)