Any wet firewood tricks?
Any tricks to dry out wet (as in damp from rain, not green) firewood? We typically use the dryer pieces and stack the wetter ones around the outside of the fire ring so they can start to dry a bit as...
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Dakzuki wrote:
I also empty the paper shredder and take the contents in a paper bag. It makes a pretty fast big flame to start things off. corrugated cardboard boxes used to haul stuff get re-purposed as fire starting material too.
The paper shredder idea is a good one, I'll have to try that this time!
This weekend, I got lucky. We have our RV parked in one park for a couple of months, so my mother in law went up the day before DH and I did. When we pulled up, she had a fire going already! So my new answer to how to start a fire with wet firewood? Get your MIL to do it! :W
The wood had actually dried out quite a bit (it has been under the RV, but we had a lot of rain and wind a few weeks ago so it was pretty wet). So that helped... then she used some paper and some firestarters I made (lint and wax in egg cartons) and started with the smallest/driest pieces of wood and kept going from there.
