Hi Eric! Permit me to introduce myself. My name is Jimmy O'Connor, a retired Police Officer with 26 years of loyal, dedicated service to the citizens of the great state of New Jersey. I've heated my humble expanded Cape Cod home in Millington, NJ for the past eleven years with a Jotul Oslo 500 wood burning stove and it's one of the best investments I've ever made for my home. I adopted a Special Needs baby boy when I retired from the force 11 years ago so I HAVE to have a sure fire way to heat my home and keep him toasty warm and that's EXACTLY what my wood burning stove has done! I want to tell you that I LOVE your PASSION for wood burning stoves and for burning wood! I'm the EXACT same way! I've found over the years that the people I've had the pleasure of meeting who own wood burning stoves are ABSOLUTELY PASSIONATE about their wood stoves! There's no "middle of the road" when it comes to wood burning stoves, either you love them or you don't! I absolutely love your videos and I subscribed as soon as I finished watching the first one I viewed which was the one on making and storing kindling with the vintage berry box. The vintage box struck home with me because I have a vintage wine box that I fill with kindling and proudly display along side my wood stove hearth and in using your own words, "it just looks beautiful!" Thank you for your wonderful videos and for your passion and love of wood burning stoves! You inspire me to keep striving to have the ultimate and most beautiful wood burning stove and hearth! Your passion and attention to detail do NOT go unnoticed! Thank you very much for taking the time to read my comment and if you'd like to see some pictures of my handsome son, Aiden (who just turned 13 in January) as well as my stove and hearth setup, which, I will be posting new pictures of in the next week, please look us up on Facebook under James Joseph O'Connor. If I can ever be of assistance to you here in the Great Garden State or if you need a contact here, please don't hesitate to contact me at Scarecrowjj@aol.com. Stay well, keep warm, and keep those videos coming!!! Great job, Buddy!!! Sincerely and respectfully, Jimmy O'Connor Millington, NJ
Loved your video and wow! Love your prep too. So many good tips taken from this. I chop all my own wood, kindling and starter messy bits - I'm not sure what they're called, but just the tiny sticks about a pencil lead diameter as they get the fire burning so fast! I need to build myself a better area to store my kindling. All my bigger bits of wood are well stored, just need to take care of the smaller stuff now and make it look a bit prettier than the very haphazard way I care for it right now. Although, have to say the messier the piles, the faster they seem to dry out. Thanks for your video!
Catching up on more videos ... can't believe I missed this one! And, just in time, too, as my *LOGOSOL SMART-SPLITTER* arrived MONDAY, 10/9/17 ... RIGHT on schedule!!! Thank you SO VERY MUCH, again, Eric!!! :-D :-D :-D Prayers
Some lovely footage in this video again and I loved that vintage looking Cranberries box. You really do turn the simple act of creating firewood into an artform and a science, thoughtfully considered with a beautifully structured approach and an impressive attention to detail. A fascinating and informative video, thank you.
Excellent video on kindling, loved the tips on splitting it. I use branches and keep them in a shed. I do not heat with wood primarily but use it as an adjunct. Thanks again for sharing and see ya on the next one.
I love your videos. Seeing a young man like you working so hard and honestly, and expressing yourself in such a clean, civilized fashion gives me hope for the future. :-)
Thanks for the excellent content, as much as I enjoy summer I'm a fall cool weather man like yourself nothing beats the cool breeze and smell of decomposing leaf fodder while harvesting firewood , perhaps rewarding yourself with a dark ale after. Here in Manitoba Canada 🇨🇦 the leaves are already showing yellowing and I'm not sad at all cheers 🍻 Eric were enjoying your wife's bread very much ! 🌲🔥
Great tips. I was splitting some kindling today for our fire pit in the back yard. I store it in a tote. Along with old newspapers, matches, and the Shrade fro that I split the kindling with.
Eric, well done and often under thought part of burning wood. I however am blessed to teach HS woodworking. Scraps get to come home instead of hit the landfill. Now, give me a good idea for all the sawdust. Take care
Great tip on using the splitter to control the split and direction of the pieces. Nothing like taking a "projectile" to the (you know what). I tend to be dense and stubborn, but I learned my lesson in only 1 take. Note to self.
Some smashing idea's there chap... I've been knocking out kindling for a good few years now and a couple of thoughts there I'll put to good use. I do a bit of wood work here and there. Shavings and whatnot make for an easy fire on a cold damp day... Offcuts of kiln dried timber are easy to split and make the best kindling. Often you'll find builders and carpenters have a lot of that stuff to give away!
A lot of good tips here bud! I think kindling gets forgotten about when collecting firewood, but your right, having a nice pile of kindling really helps when you need to light a fire! Someday I will have neatly stacked firewood like you.. lol
I have been watching some of your videos over the last month and they are excellent. I have graduated from a "normal" fireplace to a catalyst insert (Fed gives 26% tax break on cost) and feel like a need a graduate degree to run it efficiently. Getting dry wood in the Boston area is not easy. You buy it wet and store it for 6-12 months to dry it out. You have taught me a lot about it, especially when it comes to kindling. The best thing though is the likability you have that shows through. I kinda wish we were neigbhors.
Hey Eric! Firewood videos are what brought me to your channel. Thanks for the well edited and informative video. Btw... stickers should be on its way !
Cool video Eric. Seems like it won't be long now til you're stoking the stove. Woke up this morning and I couldn't believe how cool it is this morning. Low 50's here in Chicago. Thanks for sharing and we'll catch you on the next one. ATB Mike
i get a lot of 1ft or so pieces of 2x material from work and what my own projects and split that up. I store it in 5gal pails up in my attic of my garage. always keep 5-10 pails up there and store smaller kindling pieces of firewood with my firewood. i have a small row for all those little guys. When i load the stove up to the top, i use the small pieces to fill in the gaps. Great video as always!!
Over the past year I have collected several bags of kindling just by picking up the debris around my splitting area. Works really well. Plus, it keeps the yard clean by doing so. Thanks for the info!!
Thanks for the reminder Eric! Just looked at the date realized it's already August and haven't done any scrounging around the property. Only have about 2 cords left here hope it's not a cold one definitely not as prepared as you!
Hadn't really noticed that you have not done a video like this before. Great timing, as many of us are starting to prepare for the colder seasons now! Fantastic video..........and only 6 weeks til HOCKEY!!
I got a half cord of wood this fall, to heat my home office which I work in all day and which is cold and drafty in the winter (and hot in the summer). I love my antique wood stove, but it is quite a bit of work to split the wood down to a practical size for the stove and it gets used up pretty quick so I'm out there every day splitting more wood. I'm going to use some of the tips from your video and try and plan ahead for next winter! Subscribed, and looking forward to learning more. Nothing more satisfying!
I've got several large piles of hedge/osage orange that were left over from post cutting. They're mostly the tops and limb pieces that wouldn't work for posts. The interesting thing is that these piles are probably 50 or 60 years old at this point and are beyond seasoned. They make fantastic kindling. They catch easily and burn extremely hot. A couple handfuls starts even damp wood.
Awesome video man. Love them all. Hey, if you can, get some cedar wood! I got some logs delivered and use it strictly for kindling. Not only smell nice but they split easy, they catch easy, and they last long enough for the bigger piece to catch. Cedar is my go to Kindling. I'm thinking of planting some Cedar trees now.
The kindling I like to get is the kindling that comes out of the woodshop in high quantity with every project. My brother just yesterday emptied out a large trash can. We have so much kindling we don't know what to do with it all. Lol.
pallets can also be in your mix of kindling , they are easy to cut/split and provide great start-up heat. also you can use a facing up wegde for your splits.
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As long as I can remember we are using kindles from pinewood which has resin in it. Works like a charm every time.
Some helpful tips for some. Nice vid with some good pointers. I've been heating with wood for 20 yrs and typically have a 24/7 burn once the season sets in. There are times where I'm away a little to long and come back to a small bed of coals. In this case I use a bit of kindling to generate some fast heat and push the cold out of the stack. Then I have a nice base fire to add my firewood to. I burn in a wood stove and hope to add an outdoor boiler in the near future. Mine will be a home built gassifier. BTW the only processing I do with box alder is thru a 22'' chipper. That wood is garbage. Has very little BTU value and not worth the time of making firewood from it.
I do have a question about using tarps? Seems at times tarps trap moisture and reduces air circulation. What are your thought about covering wood vs. not covering and focusing on air flow?
New subscriber here, I live near Elk River, MN. I have found a cabinet shop by me that throws away the end scraps from the cabinet making process. Kiln dried strips about 8 feet long and about 1x1 inch in size. I find all types of wood, oak, maple, anything they make cabinets out of. Worth checking into if you have a cabinet shop near you.
OH, Im fortunate enough to have a wood splitter =) coming for you bwhahahahahahahahahaha =) great tips and another great video =) (nice pickaroon and wood logosol)
I am surprised that you didn't show the safest way to split kindling. Lay the piece *down* on your splitting block, hold the bottom end off the block, and put your hatchet through the top end. Then a twist of the hatchet splits off your piece and your steadying hand is out of the way the whole time. Great video, though.
H. White we live in MN. We try and keep a three year supply on hand. Ready the worse it can throw at us. Gives it plenty of time to dry and can take my time bring wood in, instead of racing in the spring so it is dry for winter.
Hi Eric!
Permit me to introduce myself. My name is Jimmy O'Connor, a retired Police Officer with 26 years of loyal, dedicated service to the citizens of the great state of New Jersey. I've heated my humble expanded Cape Cod home in Millington, NJ for the past eleven years with a Jotul Oslo 500 wood burning stove and it's one of the best investments I've ever made for my home.
I adopted a Special Needs baby boy when I retired from the force 11 years ago so I HAVE to have a sure fire way to heat my home and keep him toasty warm and that's EXACTLY what my wood burning stove has done!
I want to tell you that I LOVE your PASSION for wood burning stoves and for burning wood! I'm the EXACT same way! I've found over the years that the people I've had the pleasure of meeting who own wood burning stoves are ABSOLUTELY PASSIONATE about their wood stoves! There's no "middle of the road" when it comes to wood burning stoves, either you love them or you don't!
I absolutely love your videos and I subscribed as soon as I finished watching the first one I viewed which was the one on making and storing kindling with the vintage berry box. The vintage box struck home with me because I have a vintage wine box that I fill with kindling and proudly display along side my wood stove hearth and in using your own words, "it just looks beautiful!"
Thank you for your wonderful videos and for your passion and love of wood burning stoves! You inspire me to keep striving to have the ultimate and most beautiful wood burning stove and hearth! Your passion and attention to detail do NOT go unnoticed!
Thank you very much for taking the time to read my comment and if you'd like to see some pictures of my handsome son, Aiden (who just turned 13 in January) as well as my stove and hearth setup, which, I will be posting new pictures of in the next week, please look us up on Facebook under James Joseph O'Connor.
If I can ever be of assistance to you here in the Great Garden State or if you need a contact here, please don't hesitate to contact me at Scarecrowjj@aol.com.
Stay well, keep warm, and keep those videos coming!!! Great job, Buddy!!!
Sincerely and respectfully,
Jimmy O'Connor
Millington, NJ
I love all your videos but your firewood uploads have a special warm spot in my heart (pun intended).
Loved your video and wow! Love your prep too. So many good tips taken from this. I chop all my own wood, kindling and starter messy bits - I'm not sure what they're called, but just the tiny sticks about a pencil lead diameter as they get the fire burning so fast! I need to build myself a better area to store my kindling. All my bigger bits of wood are well stored, just need to take care of the smaller stuff now and make it look a bit prettier than the very haphazard way I care for it right now. Although, have to say the messier the piles, the faster they seem to dry out. Thanks for your video!
Catching up on more videos ... can't believe I missed this one! And, just in time, too, as my *LOGOSOL SMART-SPLITTER* arrived MONDAY, 10/9/17 ... RIGHT on schedule!!! Thank you SO VERY MUCH, again, Eric!!! :-D :-D :-D
Prayers
this will be my first year with a wood stove and this helps. thanks so much!
I love this! Thanks for the videos and info! Firewood is amazing. God made energy that is stores for years. I love it.
Some lovely footage in this video again and I loved that vintage looking Cranberries box. You really do turn the simple act of creating firewood into an artform and a science, thoughtfully considered with a beautifully structured approach and an impressive attention to detail. A fascinating and informative video, thank you.
Excellent video on kindling, loved the tips on splitting it. I use branches and keep them in a shed. I do not heat with wood primarily but use it as an adjunct. Thanks again for sharing and see ya on the next one.
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I love your videos. Seeing a young man like you working so hard and honestly, and expressing yourself in such a clean, civilized fashion gives me hope for the future. :-)
Great video! This serves as a good reminder for me to check out my kindling stash.
Thanks for the tips, will try and use them as I go from a passive wood heater o mor of an active one.
Thanks for the excellent content, as much as I enjoy summer I'm a fall cool weather man like yourself nothing beats the cool breeze and smell of decomposing leaf fodder while harvesting firewood , perhaps rewarding yourself with a dark ale after. Here in Manitoba Canada 🇨🇦 the leaves are already showing yellowing and I'm not sad at all cheers 🍻 Eric were enjoying your wife's bread very much ! 🌲🔥
Great tips. I was splitting some kindling today for our fire pit in the back yard. I store it in a tote. Along with old newspapers, matches, and the Shrade fro that I split the kindling with.
Excellent (and beautiful) tutorial Eric :0)
Greetings from the Emerald Isle of Ireland, great tips and advice on firewood,love your channel, keep up d good work
Wow. Looking at line of cords was impressive. Thousands of $ and hard work
Eric, well done and often under thought part of burning wood. I however am blessed to teach HS woodworking. Scraps get to come home instead of hit the landfill. Now, give me a good idea for all the sawdust. Take care
Great tip on using the splitter to control the split and direction of the pieces. Nothing like taking a "projectile" to the (you know what). I tend to be dense and stubborn, but I learned my lesson in only 1 take. Note to self.
Some smashing idea's there chap... I've been knocking out kindling for a good few years now and a couple of thoughts there I'll put to good use.
I do a bit of wood work here and there. Shavings and whatnot make for an easy fire on a cold damp day... Offcuts of kiln dried timber are easy to split and make the best kindling. Often you'll find builders and carpenters have a lot of that stuff to give away!
A lot of good tips here bud! I think kindling gets forgotten about when collecting firewood, but your right, having a nice pile of kindling really helps when you need to light a fire! Someday I will have neatly stacked firewood like you.. lol
Very well-thought-out video Eric. I enjoyed it very much. Thank you for your hard work and putting it together.
Great stuff!! I really liked that smart splitter. Very cool
Great video !
I have been watching some of your videos over the last month and they are excellent. I have graduated from a "normal" fireplace to a catalyst insert (Fed gives 26% tax break on cost) and feel like a need a graduate degree to run it efficiently. Getting dry wood in the Boston area is not easy. You buy it wet and store it for 6-12 months to dry it out. You have taught me a lot about it, especially when it comes to kindling. The best thing though is the likability you have that shows through. I kinda wish we were neigbhors.
Hey Eric! Firewood videos are what brought me to your channel. Thanks for the well edited and informative video. Btw... stickers should be on its way !
Great video. Super insightful. Thanks!
You are definently the firewood guy.
Cool video Eric. Seems like it won't be long now til you're stoking the stove. Woke up this morning and I couldn't believe how cool it is this morning. Low 50's here in Chicago. Thanks for sharing and we'll catch you on the next one. ATB Mike
mfavia620 we had very similar weather. 80s one day and 50 the next. The Midwest sure keeps you on your toes. 😀
i get a lot of 1ft or so pieces of 2x material from work and what my own projects and split that up. I store it in 5gal pails up in my attic of my garage. always keep 5-10 pails up there and store smaller kindling pieces of firewood with my firewood. i have a small row for all those little guys. When i load the stove up to the top, i use the small pieces to fill in the gaps.
Great video as always!!
Great info! I'm a wood guy and always tell folks to get it cut!!
Been so busy we've missed recent uploads. This was an already wonderful video - great tips, excellent editing (as always)!
Great information. Thank you for sharing.
Over the past year I have collected several bags of kindling just by picking up the debris around my splitting area. Works really well. Plus, it keeps the yard clean by doing so. Thanks for the info!!
Great video! Great timing!
Thanks for the reminder Eric! Just looked at the date realized it's already August and haven't done any scrounging around the property. Only have about 2 cords left here hope it's not a cold one definitely not as prepared as you!
Good video! 🖒 always enjoy your wood stove videos! 😊
My favorite kindling is the lath from inside the walls of houses I work on. Crispy dry & ready to go.
BUT your video is spot on. BEST PRACTICES.
I used lath once & 2:00 in the morning someone driving by knocked on the door said there was sparks shooting out of the chimney
Great tips!
The logosol splitter looks good. I normally use an axe to make my kindling, but my forearm gets really tired after an hour or so of splitting.
Excellent tips. Love your videos.
Great info! Thank you!
Great video, Thanks.
Hadn't really noticed that you have not done a video like this before. Great timing, as many of us are starting to prepare for the colder seasons now! Fantastic video..........and only 6 weeks til HOCKEY!!
Adam Croker can't wait until the season starts!
I am sorry we have such a rivalry, but it is a glorious sport. Let's Go Hawks!!
Adam Croker we are coming for you guys 😀
Gonna be a good year for hockey. Hope you enjoy it, too!
GO BLUES!! =)
Great info. Thanks so much🙏🏼🇺🇸
Great cranberry box from WI - I have some 1960 apple boxes
I got a half cord of wood this fall, to heat my home office which I work in all day and which is cold and drafty in the winter (and hot in the summer). I love my antique wood stove, but it is quite a bit of work to split the wood down to a practical size for the stove and it gets used up pretty quick so I'm out there every day splitting more wood. I'm going to use some of the tips from your video and try and plan ahead for next winter! Subscribed, and looking forward to learning more. Nothing more satisfying!
I've got several large piles of hedge/osage orange that were left over from post cutting. They're mostly the tops and limb pieces that wouldn't work for posts. The interesting thing is that these piles are probably 50 or 60 years old at this point and are beyond seasoned. They make fantastic kindling. They catch easily and burn extremely hot. A couple handfuls starts even damp wood.
WOW! I thought I had a lot of firewood.... you must do this for a living.....
Awesome video man. Love them all. Hey, if you can, get some cedar wood! I got some logs delivered and use it strictly for kindling. Not only smell nice but they split easy, they catch easy, and they last long enough for the bigger piece to catch. Cedar is my go to Kindling. I'm thinking of planting some Cedar trees now.
nice job young man !
Very nice tips ! thanks a lot
Great tips. I'm going back to look if you did a video on that pickaroon...been thinking about getting one.
thanks for good tips and a good video :-)
Kindling is the best and most important tool to make a warm fire
Well said!
The kindling I like to get is the kindling that comes out of the woodshop in high quantity with every project. My brother just yesterday emptied out a large trash can. We have so much kindling we don't know what to do with it all. Lol.
Love2boat92 with all your milling projects piles up quick. You been busy this summer 😀
pallets can also be in your mix of kindling , they are easy to cut/split and provide great start-up heat. also you can use a facing up wegde for your splits.
As long as I can remember we are using kindles from pinewood which has resin in it. Works like a charm every time.
Firewood God. Love your tips.
Ps. 2yr old stalks from giant sunflowers work as kindling too.
Thanks so much
Pretty impressive
I've found that twigs and small branches easily provide about 90% of my kindling needs. Don't really need to split bigger pieces very much.
Some helpful tips for some. Nice vid with some good pointers. I've been heating with wood for 20 yrs and typically have a 24/7 burn once the season sets in. There are times where I'm away a little to long and come back to a small bed of coals. In this case I use a bit of kindling to generate some fast heat and push the cold out of the stack. Then I have a nice base fire to add my firewood to. I burn in a wood stove and hope to add an outdoor boiler in the near future. Mine will be a home built gassifier.
BTW the only processing I do with box alder is thru a 22'' chipper. That wood is garbage. Has very little BTU value and not worth the time of making firewood from it.
I do have a question about using tarps? Seems at times tarps trap moisture and reduces air circulation. What are your thought about covering wood vs. not covering and focusing on air flow?
I use milk cartons (plastic ones) easy to cary and stack.
Nice Killians Tshirt, have you ever tried "Smithwicks (Irish) red ale"?
I love Smithwicks. Fantastic beer!
Life in Farmland totally agree!
What type of camera do you use for your videos?
Great job btw
New subscriber here, I live near Elk River, MN. I have found a cabinet shop by me that throws away the end scraps from the cabinet making process. Kiln dried strips about 8 feet long and about 1x1 inch in size. I find all types of wood, oak, maple, anything they make cabinets out of. Worth checking into if you have a cabinet shop near you.
OH, Im fortunate enough to have a wood splitter =) coming for you bwhahahahahahahahahaha =) great tips and another great video =) (nice pickaroon and wood logosol)
I am surprised that you didn't show the safest way to split kindling.
Lay the piece *down* on your splitting block, hold the bottom end off the block, and put your hatchet through the top end. Then a twist of the hatchet splits off your piece and your steadying hand is out of the way the whole time.
Great video, though.
I store my kindling in milk crates and it stores well
This was a great video. Do you sell firewood? You have quite a large storage of wood. What city/state you live?
H. White we live in MN. We try and keep a three year supply on hand. Ready the worse it can throw at us. Gives it plenty of time to dry and can take my time bring wood in, instead of racing in the spring so it is dry for winter.
Man I wish I could move to a farm brother it’s my dream to retire or move to at least a plot of land and make a homestead
I started to cut up some OSB that was waste. About 1 1/2 inch on the table saw
I used old pallets before we switch to oil
I would say the your log pile would fire my burner for around 20-25 years . Clearly we live different lives 😀
I split the easiest splitting wood into kindling.
Do you not tarp your firewood? Is it necessary?
darn it now i have to start splitting my wood it's hot out 110
We use natural gas + we live in the southern U.S.
..nuts be good to fry with
Perry stone
damn you have a toooonnnnnnn of firewood. last me like 10 years minimum :)
:) we burn through 6 - 8 full cords a winter and like to keep a three year supply for the worse winter can throw at us. Thanks for watching!
Get some food in ya.
Save a bend over. Wrap a bungee cord around the log before splitting.
Your welcome!
Great tips!
Great tips, thanks!