Firelogs production in the forest of Michoacan Mexico

Natural pine’s fire starter, it is a substitute for other chemical fire starters. The pine fire starters that we offer is found in natural forests in the state of Michoacán, Mexico.

It is made from the pine stumps left in the areas that are legally authorized for forest exploitation in Mexico. In these forests, along with timber exploitation, it is also carried out the legal extraction of pine resin, due to the height where the resin pocket is placed on the tree for the resin extraction, makes the stump or fraction of the tree, left with a high content of resin, therefore it makes Wood with the perfect fire starter characteristics. Because of the low quality of the tree stump to produce timber, it is commonly left abandoned in the field.

The woodsmen in this area of the state of Michoacán, Mexico, collect these stumps for the artisanal production of firestarter strips. Turning these abandoned stumps into a product with high value for the creation of jobs within the rural forest áreas in Michoacán, since with this collection activities are activated work in the areas of, transport, and elaboration of our handmade fire starters.