I've been burning wood since 1999 and......

[WILCO]

have found it a chore to build a starter fire with kindling wood. Have used a variety of tricks with paper, those starter sticks, WD40 and so on.
Recently cooked a pack of bacon and the idea came upon me to use the bacon grease on the kindling wood. I tried it and works like a charm. No fuss, no muss.
Even mixed in some chicken grease from the crockpot. Only takes a small amount smathered on a chunk or two and away it goes when lit. Just thought I'd share the discovery............

[hoosierlogger]

plus it probably smells good too.

[WILCO]

plus it probably smells good too.

It does!

[44man]

NO THANKS----I would be chewing on the firewood!

[JSnover]

Must be tough to keep the dogs out of the kindling....

[c3d4b2]

I have had some success using newspaper soaked with grease or cooking oil to start fires.

[fishhawk]

just use a trioxane bar under the wood and it takes right off. steve k

[imashooter2]

I have one of those ceramic eggs on a stick that you soak in kerosene. Best fire starter ever. When camping, I always bring a few fire starters made from old candle stubs melted and poured into paper egg cartons.

[waksupi]

I buy a Presto log, and chunk it into small egg size pieces. Works great. One of the logs will last me pretty much all winter. They also sell smaller versions for fire lighting, but they cost a lot more, for the same stuff.

[WILCO]

I buy.......

That's the thing, I'll never need to buy another fire starter again.

[Shepherd2]

We have an outdoor wood burning furnace. I light a fire with kindling and a trioxane bar in October and let in burn out in May.

[dragonrider]

I burn coal, start the fires with wood pellets, denatured alcohol. I use 1/2 of a 1 pound coffee can of pellets, pour on some alcohol, add kindling when going well, when that is going well layer some coal on top.

[jhrosier]

I would get a bucket of parafin and soak some thumb sized pine sticks in it.
One of those citronella candles in the little galvanized bucket sold for outdoor use would prolly work fine.
I worked for an outfit that used wood heat and we used parafin soaked kindling.
It was scraps from a company that made wooden bearings.
It works great.

Jack

[sundog]

Coarse sawdust (seasoned or dead wood), like from a chain saw rip cut, in cup cake paper poured over with some paraffin (used candle), but not too much, regular or mini size. Put'em in a zip lock bag to stay dry. They need to have a bunch of whiskers to work best. Paper can be peeled back for additional get'er started help.

Best make these in a cup cake tin so they do not wilt and go all over.

[bigdog454]

Don't use much kindlin, my fire hasen't gone out since about the middle of NOV. When I do, a shaved stick works good.

[Jbar4Ranch]

I've always used sawdust mixed with diesel. I keep a coffee can of it outside the door. I wonder if one of those self-lighting charcoal briquettes would work...? Maybe I'll break some of 'em into smaller pieces with a hammer and keep a can of 'em outside the door to try.

[John Guedry]

I used to soak corncobs in diesel. Works pretty good.

[timkelley]

I use a paper sack with a couple handfulls of paper chips from the shredder in it. It stays burning for a good long time.

[Typecaster]

Hey Sundog—
Maybe Pat Marlin can add another product to his line-up…

Richard

[pressonregardless]

Guy's, I don't what to think about the problems your having starting fires. I just start with dry wood, take the maul to it and bust off a bunch of pieces about three fingers size. The process results in lots of splinters on the pieces that when you throw them in the remaining coals seem to take off in a minute or two. If I brought kerosene or diesel soaked anything close to our woodstove my wife would grab the broom and beat me. Come to think of it, birch seems to be about the best starting wood we have.