What do you use to light your wood burning stove?

[Ratman]

Fire lighters or gel, just depends on whats on offer at the time ?‍♂️ then my unlimited source of pallets knocked down in to kindling [emoji108] my stoves a peach though with a tremendous draw on it so its kinda hard to fail though too ?

[westphalian]

7 hours ago, jamallio96 said:

Try dead fluffy gorse, a whiff of a flame and that stuff goes up lovely!

on a wild camping trip a few years ago  i went for a dump behind some gorse. as a committed environmentalist i always burn my bog paper and put a rock on my coil. the fucking gorse went up like external cladding. i ran pants round my ankles shouting to my brother to get the fuck out of there. he is greenpeace to my friends of the earth and insisted we stay and douse the flames with the whole weekends water supply.

[westphalian]

also i am one of only several hundred people in the UK who have made fire with friction on a Ray Mears weekend course. (true)

 

i use petrol now to start my wood stove going (less than true)

[daveatdave]

2 sheets of news paper a few sticks and clearings up from the splitter I do have a box of fire lighters for the odd time it will not go that I got about 2 years ago still half a box left 

[jamallio96]

Yeah, the gorse can be a little scary - good fun to find a big dead branch at the end of the night, light it from the embers in the campfire and dance around gliding this enormous flaming mass on the end of a stick :-P
Hehe, I'm very impressed! Me pa tried (and failed) to start a fire using friction with a bow, and ended up sticking the bit of wood in a battery drill to get the fire going so he felt better about it all!

[Steve Bullman]

11 hours ago, ostosix said:

8-10 sheets screwed up newspaper, handful of small sticks, 3-4 smaller pieces as thick as your wrist, once established normal logs on.

I leave plumbers torch to hand for misses if sticks aint ideal but to be fair she's better at it than me.

people still buy newspapers?

[daveatdave]

1 minute ago, Steve Bullman said:

people still buy newspapers?

yes I tend to nick them out of folks recycling bins

[Bob_z_l]

7 hours ago, Steve Bullman said:

people still buy newspapers?

Nah...not me. Get a copy of the metro every now and then. Lasts depending on whether it's a good news day or no.

 

[ostosix]

Misses barber shop brings me a nice supply, id never pay to read that sh#%

[Alycidon]

The issue with newspaper is that it smokes quite a lot so unless you have a good pull from the chimney from the off you may get some smoke back in the room,  but it works and works well.

 

Personally I use the small wood shaving/wax firelighter,  kindling is usually processor waste.  

 

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