I have access to pallets which I cut with a circular saw and chop into kindling with a hatchet. Also burn the bigger blocks from the pallets in my stove. Some burn quickly but hey they’re free heat. Had my Clearview Pioneer stove for nearly 20 years and never had to buy kindling. Also bought a battery chainsaw from Lidl for 49.99 which is very handy if I see any fallen branches when I’m out and about. Got quite a nice wee haul from Fridays storm! Cheers Paddy And yes wear the safety glasses!
hi paddy thanks for watching :] 20years that's a great investment ya iv got one of them cheap hand saws mines come in hand quite handy infect do you buy wood or is all yours free ?
Hi Ryan Yes I’ll probably buy a couple of builders bags of logs each year to supplement the free stuff and when it’s really cold also use smokeless ovoids which are great for all day burning. I don’t like cold so my stove could be going most days. I live in Northern Ireland and buy Golden Glow smokeless. 3 x 20 kg bags for £22.50. Great stuff. Not sure if you can get it in Wales. I enjoy cutting the pallets and logs. Good therapy. The Clearview is a great wee stove. Have only had to replace the baffle plate and fire bricks twice in all those years. Obviously get the chimney swept every year too. Keep up the good work
hey mark thanks for watching. i used a rubber mallet ffor a bit but it broke haha i am in the process of sorting the log shed out so eventually ill have a chopping station
I tried softwood for kindling and couldn’t get on with it - I build my fire using the ‘top down method’ so just get hardwood logs delivered and chop different sizes to suit. Nothing like cutting your own wood up for the log burner. As you’ve said in a previous video, it’s a lifestyle choice - I 100% agree. Keep the videos coming, mate, enjoying them here in Yorkshire 👍
hey chris thanks for the support means a lot thank you :], ya i would choice hard wood over soft to personally but when i get my sacks of wood i don't really get to pick the guy knows me down so chucks in some good stuff but still a bit random i need a woodland haha, What burner do you have chris ?
@ I have 2, both Dunsleys as I like to support local companies where I can. Have an Avance 400 in dining room and a 500 in living room. Don’t use the 400 much as no need but we bought an old farmhouse 6 years ago and stripped it back to bare stone throughout downstairs and discovered stone fireplaces so unbricked them, lime harled the insides and put burners in them both and then converted the big shed outside into log store. Best thing we’ve ever done.
Hey Ryan, I have a broken handled chopping maul inset into a log section sharp bit up. I then place potential kindling logs on the blade & hit down with a lump hammer. An old woodsman showed me the trick-its a gift. I've used it for decades & way easier & quicker. . .Safer too.
I get my kindling from work, any small diameter steel bars we have delivered come on rough sawn timber planks, they're abou 4" wide but 3 to 4 metres long. I cut them up on the band saw take them home and split them with an axe. I also make my own fire lighters with the lint from our tumble dryer, an egg box and wax from the wifes leftover candles. It saves money and i reckon they're pretty environmentally friendly too.
I don't buy from the supermarkets, I like you buy Ash ,Alder ,Birch and oak luckily I've got ten tons in storage at my wood supplier but as for kindling I do as you only on a tall oak blank . Good video mate 👍
I like your mindset 👍👍👍 I don’t bother with kindling any more one fire lighter under the logs door open one inch light fire lighter wait till fire is raging then shut door hey presto. One box of 32 fire lighters the white ones £1.25 a box usually buy 6 boxes end of march when the shops what to get rid of them 👍👍👍
I scavenge kindling from discarded pallets. I also (if it's easy) strip off the bark from logs and put it into a metal bucket near the stove to dry it out - it works both as kindling and a firelighter.
hey mike thanks for popping in ya i need to get hold of some pallets this year chop them up the bark is great tho as you say i keep most of the stuff i can get !!!
You take a 12 liter bucket. You put an iron disk from the scrap yard in it that is a little smaller than the inside of the bucket. You weld an old axe onto the middle of this iron disk with the blade pointing upwards. Then you put the wood on the wedge and hit the wood directly with the heavy hammer. The small kindling then falls into the bucket and it is also much safer because you no longer have to wobble with the axe.
This is a great way of doing it iv seen a few things like this on the market !!!! im looking forward to sorting out the log store so i have a wood chopping bench so it be a bit easier thanks for popping in and watching karie :]
Your know its interesting to see what people have paid for stoves, their installation, even the logs, brickets and fire lighters, all much more than our local prices.
Hi Ryan, funny, i also use an axe with a lump hammer, works a treat. This season I've been mostly using salvaged (from local skips) untreated 4x2 chopped down for my kindling, works a treat. I also chop a couple of weeks supply at once. i wouldn't dream of buying kindling... I'm not made of money😂
Hey mark glad its not just me haha !!! ya i got about 2/3 ton of free wood seasoning now for next winter and i will try to get a lot more free wood this year, i did buy 1 bag of kindling and it burns so fast its crazy haha thanks for the support and watching :]
I bought one of those 4t log splitters from screwfix a few years ago. For £100 quid or there abouts u cant go wrong. Even for making kindling. And yes wear safety specs. There are a must.
@ it’s a game changer buy for me they are a good machine. The stroke of the machines is slow but u don’t use the full stroke it’s quicker. I consider a 7 ton but it was £450 so took this as a start but I don’t need any thing more powerful. I would recommend it for sure
I use Some old pallet cut foot length and then split with a bill hook. Then just snap the lengths as needed. I tend to avoid the kindling. Just put some split logs on and a inch of firelighter (white parifin ones). Quite often i give the logs a splash of diesel then light the firelighter. A tip i learnt years ago for splitting your logs - get yourself an old tyre stick your LOGS in the middle on end and then your not restanding your wood after every swing. Ive had 2stoke or electric log splitters they're handy for the knotty shit but you still you need to face each log to activate the splitter. If you're hot big stuff 15 inch or more rings. Score them accross the diameter with a chainsaw (electric or 2 stoke). Then its easier to set a log wedge into them & use a sledge on them. If you splitting big rings a log wedge is worth its weigh in gold.
Some great tips there thanks for that !! im in the process of sorting the log store out so it should be a lot more user friendly come next winter so ill be able to stand up and do it a bit better shall we say haha thanks for your support and input means a lot
I find the secret is to handball them as little as possible. I get them forklifted in 1 cube fruit creates. Put the trailer close to the house & cover it with a tarp. Then take what we need in tub ny tub. As the selker doesn't want the fruit creates back ehen both are empty (month end) i just put the chainsaw through them and stack the wood close to house undercover. Again just once from the pile to the stove At the moment..... Were going through about 2 cube a month. We tend to use thus for Dec, Jan & Feb. That's running the stove from about 6.00 through to 23.00 daily at on ave 150 - 250c (flue temp) And the excess heat is dumped through the heating system
Another great informative video! Ive been buying a few bags of the kindling from home bargains in the past for £2.50, the pieces in it are quite chunky so i split them into 2 or 3 pieces with my log splitter and hammer, but i have 3 spare heat treated pallets in my garage atm which i bought when i built my 2 logstores and they were left overs, so im going to chop those up for kindling. Ive been seeing local sellers on fb marketplace selling the builders bags of softwood timber offcuts so i have thought about maybe buying 1 of those to but up for kindling..i usually stick to burning hardwood logs although recently ive started using those heat logs from homebargains and some sawdust briquettes i bought from a local woodyard, but ive also thought about getting a cubic meter bag of soft wood logs and chopping those up for kindling as your doing here, not sure what the best option would be 2bh
Hey thanks for watching as always very kind :] Ya its a tricky one really i do it like this as it does save a load of money, How have you been getting on with the heat logs ? i just picked some new ones up to try im in search of 3hr + heeat logs haha iv been enjoying the heat logs longer burn times and hotter than wood win win for me !!!
Yes I agree they do seem to change a lot for kindling , and it will be produced by a machine very quickly . I could probably get an adapter for my forester wood splitter , but when we had a new roof on the house I kept all the old tile batters . So I been using that for a few years now , it still has the nails in it . But I just collect them up after when I clean out the fire , and being over 40years old it’s definitely well seasoned and of course free . Obviously the new battens are treated , but I can’t see any evidence of treatment with the old ones . Happy kindle making 😂
Hi sir The splitter has been excellent but it is the 16 ton model with a blade back and front . I’ve managed to split some quite large logs with it , the secret is to find a weak spot if it’s struggling . And it’s never been beaten so far , presumably when we have to start buying wood it probably won’t see a lot of action. Time will tell , years ago I borrowed one of those gravity splitters . A metal pole with a blade at one end , a heavy weight is used that slides down the pole , which you slam down as hard as you can . Surprisingly it was very effective , and you could stand up and not have to bend your back to use it . 👍
To make it a bit safer I use the first piece of kindling cut to hold the logs in place on the first strike with the axe just to keep your hands a bit further away from the swing of the axe. (This was a lesson hard learned)
Hi the only problem with hitting axe with a lump hammer it will open up the eye of the axe and therefore you will have a lose handle just my experience nice video though,
Hey Allen, Ya im defiantly looking at making a wood chopping station in my log store so hopefully ill have a better way to do it soon (spring time) thanks for watching and the support :]
I think kindling is a word retailer called it , I’ve always just known it as sticks ,for the fire , having said that I just chopped a large tub today should last a while 👍
Hey Steve I'm not to far from you best place is to check Facebook market place I pay around 50 to 60 for a ton sack I collect it so may be more of you get it delivered
@RyansGardenDiaries I'm not on FB, might have to get the missus to look for some. I did sign up to that tip site for logs, unsure how good that will be though, thanks for the reply
That’s how I do it except I wear ear protection, I can’t stand the noise. Unfortunately I have tennis elbow at the moment so am having to buy them from my local coal company.
Hey Ian thanks for popping by :] ahh that's what they are there for no shame in buying it at all if it was cheaper i would buy it myself to haha what's your stove and log storage set up like ?
@ I have a dovre 250 multi fuel I store my logs in the garage. Then stack them on the floor beside the stove to bring them to room temperature before burning. I also put my kindling into an old oven tray and put under the stove to bring them to room temperature.
Growing up in a house with just coal fires kindling was used every day! My question is back then everyone just called them sticks!!! When did it become Kindling?
Love this mark Kindling means pieces of wood and twigs used to start a fire oxford dictionary says its been around since 1700s i like sticks and twigs more tho haha thanks for watching mark :]
I have access to pallets which I cut with a circular saw and chop into kindling with a hatchet. Also burn the bigger blocks from the pallets in my stove. Some burn quickly but hey they’re free heat. Had my Clearview Pioneer stove for nearly 20 years and never had to buy kindling. Also bought a battery chainsaw from Lidl for 49.99 which is very handy if I see any fallen branches when I’m out and about. Got quite a nice wee haul from Fridays storm!
Cheers
Paddy
And yes wear the safety glasses!
hi paddy thanks for watching :] 20years that's a great investment ya iv got one of them cheap hand saws mines come in hand quite handy infect do you buy wood or is all yours free ?
Hi Ryan
Yes I’ll probably buy a couple of builders bags of logs each year to supplement the free stuff and when it’s really cold also use smokeless ovoids which are great for all day burning. I don’t like cold so my stove could be going most days. I live in Northern Ireland and buy Golden Glow smokeless. 3 x 20 kg bags for £22.50. Great stuff. Not sure if you can get it in Wales. I enjoy cutting the pallets and logs. Good therapy. The Clearview is a great wee stove. Have only had to replace the baffle plate and fire bricks twice in all those years. Obviously get the chimney swept every year too. Keep up the good work
Great video, I would use a mallet on the hand axe rather than the lump hammer. You will mushroom the pole of the axe as it is not hardened steel.
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hey mark thanks for watching. i used a rubber mallet ffor a bit but it broke haha i am in the process of sorting the log shed out so eventually ill have a chopping station
I tried softwood for kindling and couldn’t get on with it - I build my fire using the ‘top down method’ so just get hardwood logs delivered and chop different sizes to suit. Nothing like cutting your own wood up for the log burner. As you’ve said in a previous video, it’s a lifestyle choice - I 100% agree. Keep the videos coming, mate, enjoying them here in Yorkshire 👍
hey chris thanks for the support means a lot thank you :], ya i would choice hard wood over soft to personally but when i get my sacks of wood i don't really get to pick the guy knows me down so chucks in some good stuff but still a bit random i need a woodland haha, What burner do you have chris ?
@ I have 2, both Dunsleys as I like to support local companies where I can. Have an Avance 400 in dining room and a 500 in living room. Don’t use the 400 much as no need but we bought an old farmhouse 6 years ago and stripped it back to bare stone throughout downstairs and discovered stone fireplaces so unbricked them, lime harled the insides and put burners in them both and then converted the big shed outside into log store. Best thing we’ve ever done.
Hey Ryan, I have a broken handled chopping maul inset into a log section sharp bit up. I then place potential kindling logs on the blade & hit down with a lump hammer. An old woodsman showed me the trick-its a gift. I've used it for decades & way easier & quicker. . .Safer too.
hey rob :] thats a great idea !! thanks for watching :]
I get my kindling from work, any small diameter steel bars we have delivered come on rough sawn timber planks, they're abou 4" wide but 3 to 4 metres long. I cut them up on the band saw take them home and split them with an axe. I also make my own fire lighters with the lint from our tumble dryer, an egg box and wax from the wifes leftover candles. It saves money and i reckon they're pretty environmentally friendly too.
Ohh id love to make my own fire lighters ill give this a go in the spring for sure thanks for the support frag :]
I don't buy from the supermarkets, I like you buy Ash ,Alder ,Birch and oak luckily I've got ten tons in storage at my wood supplier but as for kindling I do as you only on a tall oak blank . Good video mate 👍
hey Stephen thanks for watching apricate the support ten ton i need some of that haha :]
I like your mindset 👍👍👍 I don’t bother with kindling any more one fire lighter under the logs door open one inch light fire lighter wait till fire is raging then shut door hey presto. One box of 32 fire lighters the white ones £1.25 a box usually buy 6 boxes end of march when the shops what to get rid of them 👍👍👍
Hi Glyn thanks for watching as always :] have a great week :]
I scavenge kindling from discarded pallets. I also (if it's easy) strip off the bark from logs and put it into a metal bucket near the stove to dry it out - it works both as kindling and a firelighter.
hey mike thanks for popping in ya i need to get hold of some pallets this year chop them up the bark is great tho as you say i keep most of the stuff i can get !!!
You take a 12 liter bucket.
You put an iron disk from the scrap yard in it that is a little smaller than the inside of the bucket.
You weld an old axe onto the middle of this iron disk with the blade pointing upwards.
Then you put the wood on the wedge and hit the wood directly with the heavy hammer.
The small kindling then falls into the bucket and it is also much safer because you no longer have to wobble with the axe.
This is a great way of doing it iv seen a few things like this on the market !!!! im looking forward to sorting out the log store so i have a wood chopping bench so it be a bit easier thanks for popping in and watching karie :]
Nice .
Your know its interesting to see what people have paid for stoves, their installation, even the logs, brickets and fire lighters, all much more than our local prices.
hey where are you from ?
Same place as last week
Belgian dutch German border
Hi Ryan, funny, i also use an axe with a lump hammer, works a treat. This season I've been mostly using salvaged (from local skips) untreated 4x2 chopped down for my kindling, works a treat. I also chop a couple of weeks supply at once. i wouldn't dream of buying kindling... I'm not made of money😂
Hey mark glad its not just me haha !!! ya i got about 2/3 ton of free wood seasoning now for next winter and i will try to get a lot more free wood this year, i did buy 1 bag of kindling and it burns so fast its crazy haha thanks for the support and watching :]
@RyansGardenDiaries my pleasure Ryan
I bought one of those 4t log splitters from screwfix a few years ago. For £100 quid or there abouts u cant go wrong. Even for making kindling. And yes wear safety specs. There are a must.
i need a cheap one of these!! cant wait to make my wood chopping station, have you had any issues with your 4t log splitter ?
@ it’s a game changer buy for me they are a good machine. The stroke of the machines is slow but u don’t use the full stroke it’s quicker. I consider a 7 ton but it was £450 so took this as a start but I don’t need any thing more powerful. I would recommend it for sure
I use Some old pallet cut foot length and then split with a bill hook.
Then just snap the lengths as needed.
I tend to avoid the kindling. Just put some split logs on and a inch of firelighter (white parifin ones).
Quite often i give the logs a splash of diesel then light the firelighter.
A tip i learnt years ago for splitting your logs - get yourself an old tyre stick your LOGS in the middle on end and then your not restanding your wood after every swing.
Ive had 2stoke or electric log splitters they're handy for the knotty shit but you still you need to face each log to activate the splitter.
If you're hot big stuff 15 inch or more rings. Score them accross the diameter with a chainsaw (electric or 2 stoke). Then its easier to set a log wedge into them & use a sledge on them.
If you splitting big rings a log wedge is worth its weigh in gold.
Some great tips there thanks for that !! im in the process of sorting the log store out so it should be a lot more user friendly come next winter so ill be able to stand up and do it a bit better shall we say haha thanks for your support and input means a lot
I find the secret is to handball them as little as possible. I get them forklifted in 1 cube fruit creates. Put the trailer close to the house & cover it with a tarp. Then take what we need in tub ny tub.
As the selker doesn't want the fruit creates back ehen both are empty (month end) i just put the chainsaw through them and stack the wood close to house undercover. Again just once from the pile to the stove
At the moment.....
Were going through about 2 cube a month.
We tend to use thus for Dec, Jan & Feb. That's running the stove from about 6.00 through to 23.00 daily at on ave 150 - 250c (flue temp)
And the excess heat is dumped through the heating system
Another great informative video! Ive been buying a few bags of the kindling from home bargains in the past for £2.50, the pieces in it are quite chunky so i split them into 2 or 3 pieces with my log splitter and hammer, but i have 3 spare heat treated pallets in my garage atm which i bought when i built my 2 logstores and they were left overs, so im going to chop those up for kindling. Ive been seeing local sellers on fb marketplace selling the builders bags of softwood timber offcuts so i have thought about maybe buying 1 of those to but up for kindling..i usually stick to burning hardwood logs although recently ive started using those heat logs from homebargains and some sawdust briquettes i bought from a local woodyard, but ive also thought about getting a cubic meter bag of soft wood logs and chopping those up for kindling as your doing here, not sure what the best option would be 2bh
Hey thanks for watching as always very kind :] Ya its a tricky one really i do it like this as it does save a load of money, How have you been getting on with the heat logs ? i just picked some new ones up to try im in search of 3hr + heeat logs haha iv been enjoying the heat logs longer burn times and hotter than wood win win for me !!!
Yes I agree they do seem to change a lot for kindling , and it will be produced by a machine very quickly . I could probably get an adapter for my forester wood splitter , but when we had a new roof on the house I kept all the old tile batters . So I been using that for a few years now , it still has the nails in it . But I just collect them up after when I clean out the fire , and being over 40years old it’s definitely well seasoned and of course free . Obviously the new battens are treated , but I can’t see any evidence of treatment with the old ones . Happy kindle making 😂
hey Kx FREE Kindling is the best kindling haha how do you find the forester wood splitter ? iv budgeted for 1 hour a week to the kindling making haha
Hi sir The splitter has been excellent but it is the 16 ton model with a blade back and front . I’ve managed to split some quite large logs with it , the secret is to find a weak spot if it’s struggling . And it’s never been beaten so far , presumably when we have to start buying wood it probably won’t see a lot of action. Time will tell , years ago I borrowed one of those gravity splitters . A metal pole with a blade at one end , a heavy weight is used that slides down the pole , which you slam down as hard as you can . Surprisingly it was very effective , and you could stand up and not have to bend your back to use it . 👍
To make it a bit safer I use the first piece of kindling cut to hold the logs in place on the first strike with the axe just to keep your hands a bit further away from the swing of the axe. (This was a lesson hard learned)
Hi clark thanks for popping in :] , Now you have to tell us what happened !!! great advise thanks
@RyansGardenDiaries let's just say one thumb is a bit shorter than the other!
@@clarkfinlay78 Ohh ouch !!! lesson learnt
Hi the only problem with hitting axe with a lump hammer it will open up the eye of the axe and therefore you will have a lose handle just my experience nice video though,
Hey Allen, Ya im defiantly looking at making a wood chopping station in my log store so hopefully ill have a better way to do it soon (spring time) thanks for watching and the support :]
Hi Ryan I use my forest master splitter to make kindling
i need to have a go at one of these allan i would love a smaller 4ton one how do you find yours ?
I think kindling is a word retailer called it , I’ve always just known it as sticks ,for the fire , having said that I just chopped a large tub today should last a while 👍
Hi john thanks for popping in ya i think kindling refers to wood to start the fire, Ohh have you enjoy that !!! :]
where do you guys get logs from? i can get pallets from work to split as kindling but struggling to get logs around merthyr way
Hey Steve I'm not to far from you best place is to check Facebook market place I pay around 50 to 60 for a ton sack I collect it so may be more of you get it delivered
@RyansGardenDiaries I'm not on FB, might have to get the missus to look for some. I did sign up to that tip site for logs, unsure how good that will be though, thanks for the reply
That’s how I do it except I wear ear protection, I can’t stand the noise. Unfortunately I have tennis elbow at the moment so am having to buy them from my local coal company.
Hey Ian thanks for popping by :] ahh that's what they are there for no shame in buying it at all if it was cheaper i would buy it myself to haha what's your stove and log storage set up like ?
@ I have a dovre 250 multi fuel I store my logs in the garage. Then stack them on the floor beside the stove to bring them to room temperature before burning. I also put my kindling into an old oven tray and put under the stove to bring them to room temperature.
Growing up in a house with just coal fires kindling was used every day! My question is back then everyone just called them sticks!!! When did it become Kindling?
Love this mark Kindling means pieces of wood and twigs used to start a fire oxford dictionary says its been around since 1700s i like sticks and twigs more tho haha thanks for watching mark :]
It amazes me that a lot of people have no idea how to use an axe or hammer god help them if they decide to get a chainsaw 😅😅😅
I'll leave the chainsaw in the shed haha
Mind if i ask where abouts you are?
Hey thanks for watching South wales :)
Bit more precise? If you don't want to no problem
I'm cardiff
Ahh not to far brecon area
Could have got you some soft wood kingling if you were closer..