A Backup Crib Of Kindling

Making kindling is more intensive than just splitting wood pieces for the firewood project. I look for logs that are straight with few or no limbs so that I can split the pieces down to kindling size. Butt pieces don’t split well for kindling because the fibers that hold the tree in place while growing are like well-toned muscles, bulging and gnarled.

Fir logs that are about a 10 to 12 inches across or larger(without knots) tend to split the easiest and quickest leaving straight, true pieces. That is as long as I am able to pick up the heavy chunks to begin the splitting process. Sometimes I have to split them in half with a maul and wedges in order to have pieces small enough to set on the Super Splitter.

With the week of extreme fire danger and active fires dotting the West, my backup kindling supply was slow to get completed. It took more than a month of working on it, in small increments between other tasks, to get the crib filled.

This backup supply crib of kindling is cured and dry, the crib can rest in the barn across the river so it is out of the way until it is needed to replenish my supply of wrapped kindling bundles. At that time, we will use the forks on the front of the loader tractor to bring the crib to the bull barn for bundling.

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