Kindling cracker?

[ANewSawyer]

I don't heat with firewood but I saw this on a toolsellers website that I frequent. I don't want to put a link since it isn't a site sponsor. A quick google should pull it up though. I can't decide if it is genius or stupid.

 

[zogger]

Looks fast!

 

[ChoppyChoppy]

Northern Hydraulics sells it...

this HTML class. Value is http://m.northerntoo

Hmm... not sure why the forum doesn't like cut/paste on links?

I cut a good chuck off my left index finger about 15 years ago while splitting kindling. Axe in right hand, stick of wood in the left and I got "a little" too close.

 

[Jim Timber]

How is cast iron going to hold up on keeping an edge?

I think you'd be money ahead buying a decent parang and learning to baton with it, and saving the other $50.

 

[USMC615]

Neat idea I suppose but $100 seems a little much for no more than what ya get...I find the Estwing Fireside Friend and either a 2lb or 4lb small sledge, if still green, to be my kindling-makin buddies on half or qtr splits. Works like a champ...and both for half the price of this thing.

 

[svk]

I don't heat with firewood but I saw this on a toolsellers website that I frequent. I don't want to put a link since it isn't a site sponsor. A quick google should pull it up though. I can't decide if it is genius or stupid.

As long as you aren't involved in said company you are allowed to put a link for informational purposes that doesn't send the user to the home page of a competing forum.

 

[ANewSawyer]

As long as you aren't involved in said company you are allowed to put a link for informational purposes that doesn't send the user to the home page of a competing forum.

Ok, I wasn't real sure. Useally I don't worry about it but my post would look like an ad if I weren't careful.

Even if I heated with wood or built a lot of campfires, I don't think I would buy one. To specialized. Wonder how it will do with knots?

 

[Jim Timber]

Cast iron and a side load on those little bars is going to make for a cracked cracker.

Sticking a knot on it, or maybe even some green wood? might not make the owner too happy about their $100 buy.

 

[svk]

Interesting piece. IMO the price is way too high for what you are getting.

I have years of dimensional lumber scraps that easily split with a hatchet so personally wouldn't use one.

 

[Jim Timber]

But you could cut yourself with the hatchet. (or a tree should the need arise)

 

[ANewSawyer]

It seems like one of those solutions in search of a problem. Almost an "As seen on TV!" item. Good idea, in theory. But, like you guys said, too high.

 

[brenndatomu]

I'm still trying to figure out what the heck OP is even talking about. No pic...no link...no clue(me)
I thought by the title maybe this was gonna be some type of firestarter in a wafer (cracker) shape.

BTW, greasy "crackers" like doritos, tater chips, and the like are excellent firestarters if ya need or want to cheat. Try it sometime, one match...POOF!

 

[USMC615]

I'm still trying to figure out what the heck OP is even talking about. No pic...no link...no clue(me)
I thought by the title maybe this was gonna be some type of firestarter in a wafer (cracker) shape.

BTW, greasy "crackers" like doritos, tater chips, and the like are excellent firestarters if ya need or want to cheat. Try it sometime, one match...POOF!

Search 'Kindling Cracker' or look at it on Northern Tools site.

 

[Jim Timber]

I'm still trying to figure out what the heck OP is even talking about. No pic...no link...no clue(me)
I thought by the title maybe this was gonna be some type of firestarter in a wafer (cracker) shape.

BTW, greasy "crackers" like doritos, tater chips, and the like are excellent firestarters if ya need or want to cheat. Try it sometime, one match...POOF!

I prefer eating the chips and burning something that doesn't look quite as tasty, but that's just me.

http://www.kindlingcracker.com/the-product.html

"Tell your friends and family about my idea so we can help them from chopping their fingers off with an axe."

 

[brenndatomu]

http://www.kindlingcracker.com/the-product.html

thanks

 

[unclemoustache]

That's a great concept.

I know what I'm going to do now - find a piece of steel or an old axe head and weld it to a plate for my kids to use. No need for any stinkin' safety bars around it. My kids are currently using hatchets anyway, so anything will be safer for them. I make them wear a heavy glove on the wood-holding hand, and have taught them how to avoid injury, but I really like this concept, especially since kids are always misplacing the hatchets!

 

[Jim Timber]

 

[woodchuck357]

Looks like a waste to me, wouldn't use it if it was free.

 

[turnkey4099]

Interesting piece. IMO the price is way too high for what you are getting.

I have years of dimensional lumber scraps that easily split with a hatchet so personally wouldn't use one.

I have used a splitter to make bunches of kindling for starting brush piles. Slab a chunk then stack the slabs and split the pile several times.

Harry K

 

[treebilly]

I welded a wedge on a stand about ten years ago. Perfect height while sitting in a chair drinking beer. It works great but ussually the fire gets lit in November and goes out mid April so not much use.