Best Kindling Wood?

[gensetsteve]

It’s crazy we can buy ash cheaper than softwood and nearly half the price 

[Big steve]

We’re using red cedar nice wood but not cheap 

[Guest Gimlet]

From a lighting point of view, best kindling I've ever had was western cedar flitches from a mate's saw bench. Pretty much lights just with a match without paper.

 

Hazel is good too. 

[Billhook]

Branch logged Ash is a brilliant way to use the brash for kindling

[spandit]

I use Corsican pine - some of it is so fatty that you only need one stick to get a fire going. Had a few tonnes dropped off some time ago.

Willow splits easily and dries quickly - plenty of that around, I find

[CanopyCoops]

I’ve always used seasoned sweet chestnut, off cuts from chestnut coppice products. 

[Rough Hewn]

Faggots.

[openspaceman]

12 minutes ago, Rough Hewn said:

Faggots.

Pimp

[Rough Hewn]

Pimp

Twigs!
Bundled up with string.
Dry in a few weeks.
Why cut wood when you don’t have to?
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[openspaceman]

8 minutes ago, Rough Hewn said:

Twigs!
Bundled up with string.
Dry in a few weeks.
Why cut wood when you don’t have to?

I was being a bit facetious Saul

 

I do store some small loose cuttings in an old coal bunker but generally twigs, faggots or bavins take up time and space to store whereas I can chop kindling as I need it from a piece of (typically) leylandii firewood straight from the stack.