How To Make The Best Kindling 

I harvest all my firewood from my ten acres. Don't have cedar at my place, but lots of red oak, cherry, white oak. beech, & hard maple. Of all of them the red oak with no knots splits like a dream. I split 16" logs into squares & from there can drop a hatchet onto the squared log & get splits as small as 1/4", nothing else will split into such a small splits. I sun dry the splits in the sun for a couple weeks. When I set a flame to them they go up almost as if lighting gasoline with no smoke.

Try metal kitchen tongs for holding the wood while splitting. Saves any potential finger incidents!

I grew up in Denver so in my mind cedar was like a precious resource like oil and gold. Moved to Kansas then Missouri; You have me a good idea; I'ma gunna go cut me a tree down n make kindling... But... I'll do do it safely!!! Have a swing double bit x slam it down in there then you put that your kindling on top of that and smack it! No loss is fingers or thumbs like people are going to find out doing it like you show...

I’ve been clearing eastern red cedar from my property all winter. It’s been going in a huge burn pile , tossed in a ravine, or taken to the local mulch company where they pay me for the logs. Never once considered it for kindling. I use pine scraps from construction projects or the slivers of hardwood after splitting for firewood for kindling.

Your soooooo right about kindling a fire to start one😊

Good video! Thanks from Southwest Michigan. God Bless

Really great video, well explained. I’m spending more time here in Port Jervis, NY and start the potbelly each morning. One tip, slowing down or explaining that first cut of the 9” rounds. Looks like you simply hacked at it a bit but wanted to see it in more detail. Keep posting!

We don't have cedar around here, but I have used some scraps of cedar and old shingles from teardowns to start fires. We do have juniper which we call "eastern red cedar" that has a much greater aroma. I keep some around to put on the coals under the cannibal cauldron when I take a soak.

Great video, I guess you don’t live in the Pacific Northwest. we have an abundance of cedar over here which makes it a lot less expensive. Keep up the videos, I found your channel when I googled how to make a saw buck.

I have an almost unlimited supply of cedar when I pick up my daughter every 2 weeks . Will pick some up!

150 yr old pine scraps from historical restoration of window sash & doors lights up pretty quick. Lots of patches

The best way to make kindling: Square up rounds on your splitter. Take slabs off the square and stack them on the splitter. Using the splitter multi cut the stack to the width you want them. Lots of kindling in a short time...

Pretty neat stuff! Thx

Great idea to go get a cedar post and cut that up!

Thanks !

Neat idea to use posts. It just seems to be a really slow way to do kindling.

Where do u find the cedar post everything I am finding says it’s treated

Hi , good review , but for that job , X7 fiskars or X11 fiskars is better ? I don't have any of them and I want to buy X7 or X11..

You can shave with that axe. I have one. I handed it to my grandson. Hey for a few seconds and handed it back to me when I went to put it back in the little sheath I slipped it went through my glove heavy thick glove like butter and nicked my thumb and my forefinger I would not ever use it for for somebody that hurt themselves cut their thumb really bad or cut a finger really bad. I made a device in a kitty litter container plastic cable later jug it in there with the blade up with some screws and I can put it in there and pick the whole thing up about an anchor down to a piece of a 2x6 so it's a platform holds all the killing inside and it's totally safe cuz I just put the wood on top and then smack it with another piece of wood for a sledge or a hammer or whatever...

Great video... but those logs do look bigger than three inches

Small tire screwed into the butt will hold the kindling from falling off. Bill is in the mail.

I cannot find these style cedar posts anywhere!

why are you cutting up kindling when you have a ton of it on the ground (bark wood is the best kindling by far) its a no brianer.

i am from michigan what part of mi are you from?

You need a kindle cracker

The little

As you can see, it smells amazing…. 😂😂😂

The chainsaw in the background is very distracting while watching a firewood video....😉