Canadian Fire Starter/ Kindling

[FirewodGuy]

Better than ending up in the ditch!

https://youtu.be/GI2RSo-WYGY

[Species8472]

I use a single cup and put a single squashed up blue shop towel soaked in diesel inside the cup. Works every time.

[WillieBeno]

Good use for them, they don't recycle them here anymore. What do you use the fire bricks on top of the stove for?

[oaknut]

I don't drink enough of that stuff to make it worth while. I use egg cartons from the large boxes of 15 dozen eggs.

For lighting fires with ease while out on the lake I take one cup from an egg carton, stuff it with dryer lint (or my saved up belly button stuff) and pour melted wax over top. Even if you don't have kindling it will burn for a good 15 minutes.

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[impact]

Nice tip utilizing cups.

About 20 years ago my son needed to create and present a video project at school so we came up with a plan.
He filmed me cutting logs with the chainsaw from a load I had just received.
We had laid down a tarp on the ground to collect the saw dust chips.

Got a pail and collected a few shovels of it.
Let it dry for a while and proceeded one evening to start rolling the chips into a layer of newspaper about 6 inches long by about 2 inches in diameter.
Held it together with masking tape. We made a bunch of them which he took to class to present with the edited video.

Called the product Kwik start fire sticks from what I recall.

It was a hit, especially with the enviro teacher and kids.
It worked surprisingly well to start my morning fire.
I wish I could find it and share but it was all on analog tape back then.

[FirewodGuy]

Good way to get rid of oil. I got donated some racing fuel so I dilutes it with oil because it will blow the doors open of they aren't locked, ash everywhere.

[FirewodGuy]

I got some extra woodstove bricks in my travels, so I use them to retain heat. I have some cinder blocks on the sides. Same purpose as a stone chimney

[FirewodGuy]

I've heard that trick before. Dryer lint added as well. I try not to give hortons my money. I buy their jumbo cans at costco and make at home in the morning and try to limit my visit to the drive thru for my evening coffee and nothing else. I have friends who always leave them lying around at work.

[FirewodGuy]

That would be cool to see.

[mosquito]

I've heard that trick before. Dryer lint added as well. I try not to give hortons my money. I buy their jumbo cans at costco and make at home in the morning and try to limit my visit to the drive thru for my evening coffee and nothing else. I have friends who always leave them lying around at work.

Egg carton, dryer lint and and old birthday candle (washed after taken out of the cake, dried) and "IT WILL BURN" .... For camping I save the wax off of Baby Bels or other cheeses (rather than just throw it out) and melt a layer on top to make sure it stays dry.

I know someone that I stole part of their idea, they use the dixie cups, Tim hortons are bigger and would likely work too, fills it with dryer lint and puts a birthday candle in and a layer of wax on top so only the wick is out, they do camping way out so they take a few ziplocks of these along as firestarters. The dixie or Tim Horton cups are for liquids so they should keep the lint dry and the wax and candle to get the burn and the seal.