Which timber have you found best for kindling and why

[delabodge]

sequia,,,,or any redwood,,,,,lovely,,,,,jubbly,,

[Matthew Arnold]

We use offcuts of pine from the local post making plant. You would expect it to be a massive factory but its just a corner of a farm warehouse and we can take on the offcuts from where the point is made and where the post is made completely round or square. But generally we use Poplar or Ash.

[dave fox]

the best kindling is of pine, i use the old stake posts from the orchards we take up.

[Highland Forestry]

I would be using nice slat sized sitka spruce...

 

very light when dry, straight grained barr the odd knott, burns fast and hot - ideal for kindling

[log_hauler]

Any dry pine is good- lightweight and full of resin. We use sofwood offcut waste from the local joinery shop. It can burn too fast though. I've lit the kindling, gone and answered the phone or something, then come back to a dead fire before I could get the logs going!!

Edited October 19, 2010 by log_hauler

[gensetsteve]

Any dry pine is good- lightweight and full of resin. We use sofwood offcut waste from the local joinery shop. It can burn too fast though. I've lit the kindling, gone and answered the phone or something, then come back to a dead fire before I could get the logs going!!

 

We use off cuts at the moment but we are getting short and I have found it takes 4 times longer to prepare than round timber through our processor. How do you cut yours to size.

[log_hauler]

How do you cut yours to size.

 

All splitting done by hand- not enough throughput to justify any machinery yet.

[Luke Quenby]

Dry cherry is pretty good for kindling, well seasoned ash or hazel from coppicing / thinning work should be small enough to go through the machine or poplar like everyone else says!

[chestnut]

we use dead wood from chestnut - burns lovely and very easy to split into kindling sticks

[renewablejohn]

We use off cuts at the moment but we are getting short and I have found it takes 4 times longer to prepare than round timber through our processor. How do you cut yours to size.

 

I use a browns sliding top logging sawbench for the joiners waste and leave the palax for cutting and splitting round wood.