What's your go to method for building an indoor fire?

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Posted: 11/11/2018 10:46:53 PM EDT

How to Build A Fireplace Fire | The Art of Manliness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZEcWTORIVg

Going to try that method the next time.

Posted: 11/11/2018 10:47:22 PM EDT

[#1]

Gasoline and a match.

Posted: 11/11/2018 10:55:51 PM EDT

[#2]

My furnace.

Posted: 11/11/2018 10:56:33 PM EDT

[#3]

Kindling shavings and old newspaper

Posted: 11/11/2018 10:56:44 PM EDT

[#4]

Invite a few Buddhist monks over...

Posted: 11/11/2018 10:57:10 PM EDT

[#5]

Flip the switch.

Posted: 11/11/2018 10:58:45 PM EDT

[#6]

I start the fire from from the bottom because heat fucking rises.

Posted: 11/11/2018 10:58:45 PM EDT

[#7]

Balled up newspaper and kindling.

How the fuck else is it done?

Posted: 11/11/2018 10:59:33 PM EDT

[#8]

Gasoline or off-road diesel

Shit, read that as “outdoor”

Usually shavings under a criss cross pattern

Posted: 11/11/2018 10:59:38 PM EDT

[#9]

Quick start and some logs; less smoke

Posted: 11/11/2018 10:59:44 PM EDT

[#10]

Top down if I have the time

Or

I build a Lincoln log type square structure with kindling and throw newspaper in the middle until it’s caught.

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Posted: 11/11/2018 11:00:27 PM EDT

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Posted: 11/11/2018 11:00:44 PM EDT

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Like a man, with fat lighter. Place smaller split pieces in the rack with fat lighter pieces going underneath. Then as that catches, add bigger pieces.

Posted: 11/11/2018 11:01:33 PM EDT

[#13]

I put some pellets in the hopper then push the button to start the stove. It does the rest.

Posted: 11/11/2018 11:01:50 PM EDT

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Posted: 11/11/2018 11:02:37 PM EDT

[#15]

Turn the stove knob

Posted: 11/11/2018 11:03:14 PM EDT

[#16]

Mappgas tourch

Posted: 11/11/2018 11:03:34 PM EDT

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And use a BenzoMatic torch.

Posted: 11/11/2018 11:03:38 PM EDT

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Cured, dry hardwood, and a propane torch

Posted: 11/11/2018 11:03:40 PM EDT

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This.

Posted: 11/11/2018 11:03:58 PM EDT

[#20]

3 or 4 pieces of matchlite charcoal, dry wood of various sizes, and a propane torch as a positive source of ignition.

Posted: 11/11/2018 11:04:04 PM EDT

[#21]

Firelog.

Posted: 11/11/2018 11:06:14 PM EDT

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I lived in a wood heated home for a few years. It became second nature.

Old bills/paper at the bottom of a loose stack of graduated kindling. I tended toward a Lincoln log shape. Light it and close the stove door to a crack. Main thing is to start an air/heat draw in a gradual way so that you have a draft from the stove up the pipe/flue. Gradually add larger pieces. I stacked them in reverse so everything was handy.

When I was splitting wood I would just take the last piece and resplit it a few times. Then take one of those pieces and resplit that. Then carve off a few shavings with the axe. Bundle it all in the wood carrier and bring it in. I kept unsplit wood by the door and would feed that once the fire was going well.

With the new house I turn this new-fangled dial on the wall. Huge improvement.

Posted: 11/11/2018 11:06:35 PM EDT

[#23]

fat wood
and a little newspaper

Posted: 11/11/2018 11:07:52 PM EDT

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Same. Must be a Georgia ~~thing~~ thang.

Posted: 11/11/2018 11:11:23 PM EDT

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I just walk in the woods and find it. It’s everywhere down here.

Posted: 11/11/2018 11:11:32 PM EDT

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Never anything to do in this town. Lived here my whole life.

Posted: 11/11/2018 11:12:42 PM EDT

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Like a man, with fat lighter. Place smaller split pieces in the rack with fat lighter pieces going underneath. Then as that catches, add bigger pieces.

Same. Must be a Georgia ~~thing~~ thang.

It’s funny, but I’ve never seen it mentioned in any outdoors, camping, survival, etc books.

Posted: 11/11/2018 11:13:09 PM EDT

[#28]

Form a tipi against the back wall with newspaper, cardboard,kindling and then logs. Light, walk away.

Posted: 11/11/2018 11:13:39 PM EDT

[#29]

I basically do that same thing. Usually just light off some newspaper to get a little draft going up the chimney, but an open window also helps quite a bit. Never tried the upside down fire, but even outdoors I build a cross hatch pattern of kindling much like the video does.

Posted: 11/11/2018 11:18:46 PM EDT

[#30]

Depends on how much time I've got. Usually it's twisted up newspaper and kindling but if I need it right away or I'm busy then I just throw a fire starter log in there, surround it with real logs, light it and walk away.

But the kicker for me is that I have two fireplaces. One on main floor and one beneath it in the basement. So I have to run a kerosene heater in the fireplace in the basement if there won't be anyone down there that wants a real fire. I do this because I have to keep a column of rising air in that chimney too. If I don't, some of the smoke from the upstairs fireplace will go back down the cold chimney and stink out the basement with smoke.

Oh, and I always, always prime the flu with burning paper.

Posted: 11/11/2018 11:21:16 PM EDT

[#31]

Newspaper, lighterd, kindling, sticks, small log.

Posted: 11/11/2018 11:21:53 PM EDT

[#32]

Top down in Keith J’s memory. It works.

Buy a crooked ass red cedar 4x4 for dirt cheap and split that for kindling. Lights with a match and a hand full will get arm thickness oak burning no problem.

Posted: 11/11/2018 11:22:17 PM EDT

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Posted: 11/11/2018 11:23:51 PM EDT

[#34]

I can't believe men need tips for how to start a fire...
Is this how emasculated men have become????

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