Alternative fuels for small firepit?

[PlacidWaters]

I have a UCO Flatpack. Sawing and splitting small-size wood (8" and 12" long) is laborious. Would either of these work?:

(1) Sawdust bricks: Can they be split smaller? Do they burn fast or slow?

(2) According to my local Tractor Supply, you can burn pine bedding pellets in a camping stove. But how would you create air for the fire?

 

[Ragman]

Perhaps regular smoker pellets would work, the ones like Traeger uses? I have tried some of those pressed bricks before and had pretty limited success, perhaps user error but I never went back to them.

 

[sancap]

I have used a variety of these, most grocery stores cary some version of these. https://www.amazon.com/s?k=hickory+...611822&tag=googhydr-20&ref=pd_sl_983pypj4xg_e

 

[NatersXJ6]

I haul and burn almost exclusively off cuts from my various woodworking projects. Find a custom cabinet shop or flooring contractor and ask to dumpster dive. A bucket of chicken can move mountains with respect to getting permission. Very few thing burn as nicely in a campfire as unfinished oak flooring, and it stacks really nicely!

 

[Hnoroian]

Are you using it to cook or just ambiance and marshmallows?

 

[Buddha.]

Sometimes I’ll use regular charcoal briquettes in a fire pit for cooking. Not much ambiance though.

 

[PlacidWaters]

Are you using it to cook or just ambiance and marshmallows?

Ambiance and warmth.