This WOODSTOVE TRICK blew my MiND!

Me and wife used toilet paper rolls and paper towel rolls. Cut into 2 inch length set on used paper plate or news paper, put small quantity dryer lintel then saw dust and top off with more dryer lint , pour in wax and if it runs out bottom wait until it cools of and reuse wax. Works great.

i am lazy, use a 20 lb propane with plumber airpropane torch and heat the chimney for 2 minutes while loading the stove then put torch under wood to get that working............all while doig something else

They do put espresso in the metal cans though, Cody. Then you'll need an espresso maker. I'm an Irish Breakfast Tea lover, and I don't really care much for coffee, but I do like espresso.

Do you have/need a heat barrier behind the stove... ie... brick or is the wood panel if Sufficient?

So I've recently lost my dad and now I have to learn everything, because my dad didn't teach how to start a fire. But he did teach me how to prep fire wood and split kindling. This saves my day. I'm only 16 years old and I have to be the man of the house. You are a blessing for me sent by our creator. Thank you so much for teaching me.

cool trick

reminded me of the cubscout buddy burner

You can also clean your glass with the ashes. Just dampen a paper towel and dip in the ashes and clean your glass. It works great. 👍🇨🇦

Im glad I'm not the only one who gets a "Mean one" every time I try to split kindling" . 🤣

Cody, have you a leaking roof??? your floors wet, by the looks of it???

Truck traders. Pick them up all the time. Store them in the bench. Gather bark all summer in a big trash can. Pile one truck trader in your lap. 2 today, they are thin. Lay bark and thing on the truck trader and light. Open ash trey and go get wood. It's so simple. I use a bunch of them in the spring and fall. As soon as it's cold the fire never goes out here.

I have a wood stove in my cabin as my main source of heat and doubtfully tried your method of starting a fire. It appeared to me to be counterintuitive...Wow!! Game changer! Thanks for the tip! L

Where do you purchase your wood stove?

I use “birch bark” for kindling, it gets a fire 🔥 going quickly!

You can still get Heinz Ketchup in the tin cans.

I use oil on mine.

If feminists saw this video 😂😂😂

If you could pick your neighbors, Cody would be first on my list. Thanks for another useful how-to Wranglerstar!

You need a splitting maul or a wood grenade

If that blew your mind, you have a very small mind!

super video thank you! I recently moved into a home with a wood burner and absolutely love it! Going to try this technique tomorrow! 🔥❤

IF YOU HAVE SMOKE COMING BACK INTO THE ROOM WHEN LIGHTING THE STOVE, JUST OPEN A WINDOW OR EXTERNAL DOOR AND THAT WILL BALANCE THE AIRFLOW AND THE PROBLEM WILL DISAPPEAR IMMEDIATELY. sorry about the shouting but I ain't gonna type it again, hello from the UK.

Just throw in your big pieces and a cup of diesel and a match,instant hot fire.

A cotten ball filled with Vaseline works just as well.

The upside down fire. I’m an expert at watching USmuchs videos about it. :)

coffee cans Chock Full o Nuts is the only steel can coffee

I've been using dryer lint for years. I don't use anything containing wax into my stove.

I have a catalytic stove, and I find the top-down method takes a much longer time to get the catalytic burner up to temperature. If I do the traditional bottom-up approach, I can control the speed of the fire build and get the catalyst going in under 30 minutes, but of course this needs my attention ever 5min or so. When I tried the top-down method, the cat was still sitting at 400F an hour later.

Looks like you have gained a bit there guy.

Title is correct! *Uses torch to light fire*....MIND BLOWN!! AMAZING!!!

I find a gallon of petrol works quite well

Excellent. I've been using dryer lint for about 3 or 4 years now. Works great!

Game changer. Makes so much sense for indoors and out. Thank you!

Waste of time just start it the normal way.

The greatest advantages with upside down method inside a cottage is that you get less smoke in the pipe/room. Outside it makes less difference.

when you're banging away at those sticks with one hand, splitting down through the wood, be damned carefull not to run a nice, big, long splinter right up your first finger and into your hand. Trust me...

I think Tim hortons coffee comes in metal cans still

Ive been doing the upside down fire for well over 10 years i dont think there's a better way. Regards from sub zero Poland

Ive been at this for years...for campfire starters. First you put used candle glasses in an old slowcooker on high then pour them over lint filled dixie cups...Viola! Gets wet wood going every time!

What brand of stove is that? I see it's got a close clearance to the combustible wall.

Whats the name of that song you used for the time lapse. Sounded beautiful

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That's a good way to crack your floor

For your coffee cans, Chock Full of Nuts coffee still comes in a metal can.

You should get a wood stove fan, it sits on top and runs from the heat of the stove they are super cool

I thought this was obvious. I'm Scandinavian tho

I love this method I learnt it several years ago and it's awesome Another tip when buying groceries ask for paper bags they work great

With that amount of kindling and firestarter, I could light my stove every day for a week.

About the old metal coffee cans.... I bought a lot of Mountain House freeze dried food for emergencies....all in nice #10 steel cans.

Don't need a dryer, my belly button provides enough lint.

Ive been doing this for a couple of years now with my Fireplace insert . I can get a full armload of birch jackpine mix lit with a handfull of cedar kindling and shavings from the planer. light it and walk away ! another neat trick for the cold huntcamp stove is a few chunks of charcoal on top lit before I light the kindling a few minutes later, warms up the cold flue for a good efficient smoke free draft :)

Awesome

Vaseline and wood chips from your chainsaw. Put em in a cupcake paper. Slop a little of the melted vaseline on the top of the paper so it will ignite quickly. Good fire starter also

So I tried this tonight. The fire starters I already knew but this method of starting fires in your wood stove was amazing. I will have to do it a few more times to prove it out but the first time tonight I got amazing results. I left it and went out and did evening chores and when i came back had a nice bed of coals. Stoked it and loaded. Great technique, been lighting fires for 50 years and didn’t know this trick. Thank you.

Building the start on top only works because the coals eventually fall to the bottom and the actual fire burns normally from the bottom up. Side note; ANY stove that needs the door open to get the fire going is a poor design.

My Amish friends advised me to get a wood stove fan for heat distribution efficiency.

this is probs useless saying bit lay your logs down then split,less chance of the axe getting stuck half way

Tried a couple of times Works great Thanks

Dose that wax not cause creasasote build up? In ur pipes

Good will kettle and candles are cheap. I use sawdust from my wood working and mix with melted wax in egg cartons, it works great .

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Hey man, while you're waiting for your wife to get back from the laundry room, I'm hoping you'll clarify a few things for me. Firstly, could you please define "professional homeowner?" Thanks. Secondly, you've been "doing it wrong [your] whole life?" Really, that implies you've never successfully started a fire. Maybe you should get your wife to help.

diesel fuel in a squeezy sauce bottle

Why is it grey? because each dyed fiber reflects only a couple frequencies of light. That means it's absorbing all the other colors. Black clothing absorbs nearly all frequencies of light. White clothing reflects nearly all frequencies of light. The average of all your clothes absorbs, ie the lint from all your clothes will be absorbing nearly all frequencies of light, but also has a little bit of reflection. Mix white and black together, what do you get? Grey! Science Rules!

Still get metal cans with survival food

fire starters from BSA

Easy way to clean the glass on a wood stove: Take a very damp paper towel and lay it on the cold fine ashes. The ashes will stick to the paper towel. Use the paper towel and ashes to clean the glass. Works so amazingly easy. Finish up with another clean paper towel.

Thank you. All really good stuff. Allow me to say just one thing: I will never again leave a wood stove door open. I was charging ours on a very cold winter day, had cracked the door open a little bit, then got called to the phone. Fifteen minutes later I remembered the open door. I raised down stairs to find my stove heating at 900 F with the chimney red hot ten inches above the stove top. I consider myself and family extremely fortunate to have made this discovery when I did. As a result, a baffle plate in the chamber was warped and never fitted properly thereafter. Door control valves are there to let air in. I concluded that opening the stove door means you are too much in a hurry; never a good idea with fire.

Thank you!

Works fantastic for starting our stove with our seasoned mill ends. So much better way to do it. We make fire started like that but use very fine fir chip instead of dryer lint.

The egg carton fire starters are great. In my shop, I take 5 gallons of saw dust and pour one gallon of used motor oil. To start my fire, I use a 2-inch layer of oil saw dust as my base with my fire wood on top

I've been saving drier lint like that for years as well. A big ball of that stuff wrapped in a paper towel or something similar makes an excellent charcoal chimney starter for the grill

Empty toilet paper rolls and lint are a great fire starter too. Without the wax.

Do you think that method would work outside, or only in a stove?

In the time it took him to split one piece of wood I loaded my stove with larch and birch bark, threw in some chips and sticks collected from stacking the woodshed, lit it and walked away. Ain't no one got time for the Swedish way, and I'm a swede lol.

THANK U for this game-changing technique! Saved this 70 yr old woman a lot of time & effort this morning & from now on!

I do this with toilet paper cores it burns longer

Fire starters from egg carts, lint and wax... have’t done that since I was a young Boy Scout 🔥

Yikes! No backer board between the stove and wood-panelled wall?

reverse log cabin 🔥

Always chop with the knot not against a not not (:)

Is he getting uglier or just fatter? Real answers appreciated.

The double wall vent pipe should provide enough insulation for proper venting no matter how u start a fire. Good video from Sacramento

That is a totally different way to make a fire.Why wasn't this method used instead of the traditional kindling on the bottom?I'm going to do this from now on.Thank you.

good video. thanks!

Come to Canada 🇨🇦 coffee cans are alive and well!

Sorry but I do it the another way, I (wife) take some garbage can and pick up branches dropped from my oak trees and then lay a 2-3in branch against each side of the stove and then add 2-3 handfuls of the dropped material followed by a shot of lighter fuel ( grill stuff ) and then lay the 1/2-1in stuff on tip followed by my split wood, no problems, one match does the job, she picks o the sticks so mower does not hit in mowing season but do your way when deer hunting

I tried this method and it worked first try without much effort at all

I just tried this and then went and did some work for an hour and when I came back, there was a great fire in there. Amazing! Thanks, Cody!

In the Boy scouts we used collect all the un unseable candles and wax , melt in down the pour it over the whole tray, great video

Brilliant method! Can't wait to give it a go. Been fighting the wood stove first light for too long with way too many matches lol

Have my wife collect dryer lint?! You obviously aren't retired. Ha ha

I'm convinced that dryer lint is from that missing sock. We have part of a dresser drawer dedicated to single socks with no mate. Jerry Seinfeld said years ago that that's something you get back when you go to heaven. 😁

Handy hint: Don't try to split a cross a knot (see 4:00 to 5:00), Also suggest some crotch protection!

Just wad up up the carton light it with your smaller pieces and done. I've heated my home in Iowa all my life with wood and never took that long to start a fire. The wax thing is fine for a gift from grade school kids but not worth the effort.

Fatwood and a Burnzomatic. So quick

For my outdoor fire pit I use a few pieces of cheap no name charcoal on top of the kindling and wood after I get it going in a charcoal starter or take some charcoal out of my grille after cooking a meal.

A little splash of charcoal lighter fluid works good too

I use sawdust mixed roughly 1:50 with waste oil (vegetable, mineral, even grease will work). With this starter I can get a very hot fire going with small pieces in any configuration, just throw it all in there lite it, been doing it for decades.

looks like you got a piece of eastern firewood there....