Which type softwood for good kindling?

[kindlett]

larch .

[mendiplogs]

Poplar makes good kindling too

 

HI MATE im told poplar to mate thanks jon

[Mark Bolam]

Anything straight grained. Love splitting kindling for my own use..

 

Even fresh felled stuff is good to go after a couple of days next to the fire.

 

Commercially I wouldn't have a clue.

 

 

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[mendiplogs]

Anything straight grained. Love splitting kindling for my own use..

 

Even fresh felled stuff is good to go after a couple of days next to the fire.

 

Commercially I wouldn't have a clue.

 

 

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HI MARK your right my GAMP GO OLD CHAP used ash for just his self to use thanks jon

[b&a forestry]

Pallets realy good get them for free and u get the blocks aswell win win all the way

[woodrascal]

Larch or very dry Sitka

[difflock]

I find that if I take in a random pick of sticks (carried in by the Bananna Box full), and simply select the most resinous, fiberous, finest split/most "edgy" bits, and arrange them around the rear and sides of the grate, a couple of handfuls of scrumpled up newspaper and the Morso is roaring, in a very few minutes.

The random bits I split across the grain, with the 17tonne hyd splitter, are really really the "bees knees" for lighting as the crushing is very effective at opening up the endgrain fibres.

Either Sitka or Lodgepole.

Ps

I have left a few Lodgepole stumps over-high, to harvest the oozing resin, when I cut them next year and split them, they should light like candles for kindling, or indeed make Superb Swedish Candles??

Edited December 19, 2014 by difflock

[Lucan]

I use spruce in the kindling I sell, it has the lowest density when dry (most air) so lights easy and burns hot. Also you can get green wood to <20% in a week if cut small enough. I prefer Sitka as it is not as knotty as Norway.

 

Any of the knotty stuff I cut to 2-3" diameter and sell to customers who have their own supply of hardwoods but need something to get the stove up to temperature. I try not to let anything go to waste.