What Price kindling ?

[rusty69]

9 hours ago, Mike the Boilerman said:

I can earn six quid in about 90 seconds. 

 

 

What do you do? 

13 minutes ago, Jennifer McM said:

Sister in Law gave us a Chrissy present a couple of years ago bought from a twee source, probably a craft fair. It was a beautifully crafted paper bag of 'no doubt' expensive firelighters.

You smelt tree rong! 

 

 

Something is wrong when my reply is one of the few that answers the OP. 

[MtB]

4 minutes ago, rusty69 said:

What do you do? 

 

I sell kindling....

[Athy]

9 minutes ago, Jen-in-Wellies said:

Cooking oil works really well as a fire lighter. Catches easily, burns for a long time, but no explodey tendencies. Wipe the frying pan round after cooking with a paper towel and put in the stove ready for lighting.  Saves the sink drain getting blocked with mini fatbergs.

Yes indeed, we do this at home. As for "fatbergs", we keep an old coffee jar near the sink and pour off the fat from the roasting tin etc.  into it before washing up. We started doing this after paying quite a lot of money to have years' worth of far-from-mini fatbergs removed: there's no access to our drain from outside the kitchen, and the specialists had to get to it via a manhole cover in the garden.

10 minutes ago, rusty69 said:

 

 

Something is wrong when my reply is one of the few that answers the OP. 

I think several people did. I'll add my answer: nothing. We collect and store fallen twigs, bush clippings and the like during the summer, and they gradually dry out. This winter we'll be using last year's.

[rusty69]

22 minutes ago, Athy said:

 

I think several people did. I'll add my answer: nothing. We collect and store fallen twigs, bush clippings and the like during the summer, and they gradually dry out. This winter we'll be using last year's.

Q. How much would you expect to pay for a year's subscription to waterways world magazine ? 

 

A. Nothing. I read it free up the library

 

 

[mrsmelly]

Very good, dry kindling is sold here at 3.75 for a large net. One lasts me for a year as a full time liveaboard. Thats less than a pint of beer, each to their own but I aint peeing about with pallets and the like for the price of a beer.

[Captain Fizz]

The beer is much cheaper at Aldi!

[MtB]

2 minutes ago, Captain Fizz said:

The beer is much cheaper at Aldi!

 

"There is nothing in this world a man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper."

 

John Ruskin.

 

And boaters by and large are mug punters for this!

[Tumshie]

1 hour ago, Jennifer McM said:

Sister in Law gave us a Chrissy present a couple of years ago bought from a twee source, probably a craft fair. It was a beautifully crafted paper bag of 'no doubt' expensive firelighters.

 

Basically the 'firelighters' were pine cones as big as goose eggs, dipped into something that smelt of accelerate, then dipped into 'pretty' coloured wax. Each cone was tied neatly with a pretty hessian ribbon around it's girth which colour coordinated with the wax. The ribbon acted as a wick.

 

We had to be brave to use them . I'm pretty certain they wouldn't have passed any consumer safety test. 

Pine cones work really well with out all the carp on them but then the crafts people couldn't justify selling pine cones if they were just plain old pine cones. ?

 

1 hour ago, Jen-in-Wellies said:

Cooking oil works really well as a fire lighter. Catches easily, burns for a long time, but no explodey tendencies. Wipe the frying pan round after cooking with a paper towel and put in the stove ready for lighting.  Saves the sink drain getting blocked with mini fatbergs and keeps the cholesterol levels in the canal fish down!

 

Jen

I don't use fire lighters very often so if I buy them a pack can sit around for ages and they tend to stink out the kist that all that stuff lives in so I bought a pack of Biofuel fire lighter that use veg oil instead of pertol, I'm only using them to make it easier to light a garden fire pit type thingy. They work a treat and don't stink the kist out. For someone who uses fire lighters regularly in the house the veg oil and paper towel option is a rather good idea. 

[Jen-in-Wellies]

2 minutes ago, Tumshie said:

kist

Lovely Scottish word!

[bizzard]

Cheap fire lighters. Keep thin sticks soaking in a jam jar half full of old white spirit, diesel or paraffin. One lit will set your kindling alight a treat.

[Tumshie]

2 minutes ago, Jen-in-Wellies said:

Lovely Scottish word!

I'm a bit bi-lingual and tend to forget when I'm using Scottish words then I confuse the locals up here by using words very specific to certain parts of England. 

[mrsmelly]

38 minutes ago, Captain Fizz said:

The beer is much cheaper at Aldi!

I am not keen on Aldi booze, however they do do a couple of decent ciders cheaply.

[Athy]

7 minutes ago, Jen-in-Wellies said:

Lovely Scottish word!

Yes indeed, and one which I had not previously encountered.

[Tumshie]

17 minutes ago, Athy said:

Yes indeed, and one which I had not previously encountered.

My great aunts had sea chests that came form their father who was in the navy that were always referred to as kists, and we had storage kists and I've been racking my brains to think what the other name for them is and its a trunk. Obvious once I remember it. 

 

ETA - a quick online search says they're steamer trunks. Kist = sea chest or steamer trunk. 

 

Edited August 22, 2019 by Tumshie

[Athy]

15 minutes ago, Tumshie said:

My great aunts had sea chests that came form their father who was in the navy that were always referred to as kists, and we had storage kists and I've been racking my brains to think what the other name for them is and its a trunk. Obvious once I remember it. 

 

ETA - a quick online search says they're steamer trunks. Kist = sea chest or steamer trunk. 

 

You have just reminded me that my Mum had a similar item which was always called 'the blanket chest', and yes, she kept spare blankets in it. Oddly, it lived in the hall rather than upstairs.

[haggis]

Ah, memories! I well remember the kists we had in the farmhouse where I was brought up. Some had blankets but the one I particularly remember was the one where all the Scalextric and Meccano stuff was stored. I had lots of brothers and was never a "doll" child ?

 

haggis 

[Bod]

4 hours ago, bizzard said:

Cheap fire lighters. Keep thin sticks soaking in a jam jar half full of old white spirit, diesel or paraffin. One lit will set your kindling alight a treat.

Yup, works very well, and the colour of the paint in the bottom of the jar, makes no difference.

 

Bod

[tree monkey]

7 minutes ago, Bod said:

Yup, works very well, and the colour of the paint in the bottom of the jar, makes no difference.

 

Bod

Old tea bags work as well

[GUMPY]

4 hours ago, mrsmelly said:

I am not keen on Aldi booze, however they do do a couple of decent ciders cheaply.

And their own brand Gin (Oliver Cromwell)  is excellent.

 

[mrsmelly]

20 minutes ago, Loddon said:

And their own brand Gin (Oliver Cromwell)  is excellent.

 

Indeed it is!!

[Lily Rose]

3 hours ago, tree monkey said:

Old tea bags work as well

I've been doing that for a couple of years now, works really well. I am intrigued by Buzzards suggestion though so I might give that a try as well this autumn. It's something I had been wondering about for a while as it sounds like it's a form of integrated firelighter/kindling all-in-one jobbie.

 

7 hours ago, mrsmelly said:

I am not keen on Aldi booze, however they do do a couple of decent ciders cheaply.

Do you mean their own-brand?

 

I am very partial to a bottle or two of Hobgoblin Gold which they (and Lidl) sell for £1.25. It's normally £1.60 in other places so I tend to stock up on my roughly once a month trips to Aldi.

 

Edited August 22, 2019 by Lily Rose

[bastion]

1 hour ago, Lily Rose said:

I've been doing that for a couple of years now, works really well. I am intrigued by Buzzards suggestion though so I might give that a try as well this autumn. It's something I had been wondering about for a while as it sounds like it's a form of integrated firelighter/kindling all-in-one jobbie.

 

Do you mean their own-brand?

 

I am very partial to a bottle or two of Hobgoblin Gold which they (and Lidl) sell for £1.25. It's normally £1.60 in other places so I tend to stock up on my roughly once a month trips to Aldi.

 

Lidl do a very good range under the Hatherwood label, brewed at Witney in the same brewery as Hobgoblin. Not all to my taste but cannot fault them.

[Lily Rose]

 

2 minutes ago, bastion said:

Lidl do a very good range under the Hatherwood label, brewed at Witney in the same brewery as Hobgoblin. Not all to my taste but cannot fault them.

Good to know thanks. I normally drive 12 miles return to Aldi once a month to stock up on various bargain stuff but a Lidl is due to be built very soon where I live so I'll be switching to them next year.

[nbfiresprite]

21 hours ago, Mike the Boilerman said:

When I get home from the pub after bellringing the last thing I want to do is go out looking in pine woods to gather pine cones to light the stove.

 

I can earn six quid in about 90 seconds. 

 

 

After some careful investigation, I found some footage of Mike putting kinding on his fire.