a good harvest early this morning

[Bushman5]

Went out at 0300 hours and hit the woods. Had coffee at first light (around 0345 hours) and then did a walkabout for a bit. Tripped over what i thought was a rotten log, only to discover a massive plank of premium douglas fir fatwood. The stuff pictured is 30lbs of fatwood from the much larger piece. Due to limited pack space and the almost 200lb weight of the entire fatwood slab, I could only haul out this small amount.

had i been able to haul out the whole slab, and if i had a thickness planer, I would have been able to plane down the entire log into a 2" x 8" x 10 foot long plank of fatwood.

still processing this down to usable pieces (no moss, outer wood). Haven't decided if i'll leave the big piece as one slab or slice it down to smaller pieces.

Going to be a good fire tonight with all the scrap.

 

[dboles]

Nice haul Going back for the rest?Thats mighty early for a stroll
Dan'l

 

[Diomedes Industries]

Dude - have you come to the point where you have... enough?

TF

 

[Bushman5]

^ nope. I have plans.


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Nice haul Going back for the rest?Thats mighty early for a stroll
Dan'l

yea, the GF was grinding her teeth all night, couldn't sleep.

 

[Diomedes Industries]

World dominance through fatwood?

TF

 

[Bushman5]

fatwood pendants/buttons

 

[ChapmanPreferred]

Wow..

 

[Big K]

That looks like a nice piece, I can almost smell it!!!

 

[Rockywolf]

Awesome. 0300? Bro, we need to talk. Did you have coffee before bed? Lol. So tell us about these pendants.....

 

[theobetts]

Damn nice haul of fatwood!

 

[Skimo]

Great haul, Wish I could be there to help you tote out the whole sucker.

 

[lk3331]

i need to get some big pieces like that.

 

[Rupestris]

Had coffee at first light (around 0345 hours) and then did a walkabout for a bit.

First light at 0345? I'm thinking your idea of first light and my idea of first light are quite different

Congrats. Nice haul. :thumbup:

 

[DOC-CANADA]

Finally figured out why I've never used fatwood. Rumour has it that Bushman5 used to live in Ontario, until the fatwood ran out.

Doc

 

[Bushman5]

i'm getting a bit woozy from the fatwood smell.

Decided to process the fatwood in the GF's kitchen. This of course means using the dining table and the good towels.

getting ready for the big slab, got WD40 to keep the saw lubricated and running smoothly (anti-stiction), got ziplocs to put the processed pieces into, got some beers left to keep me well lubricated, bunch of knives for skinning out the fatwood and a saw for cutting the fatwood bones.

First we start by de-hairing the fatwood, using a knife to scrape it:

then we split the fatwood carcass with a large butcher knife, in this case a SY SOD: (in the background, Fatwood The Cat is eagerly sniffing the carcass)

then we section the piece

the sectioned piece, 6lbs of Grade A premium fatwood

 

[Bushman5]

next we process into small pieces, using the saw:

each one of these pieces will yield 6 x 1" x 1" x 6" long pieces of fatwood.

and last we bag and tag!

 

[JOSH111]

And here I though you were going to make pitch from all of that. Hell there sounds like enough left in the woods do a good batch

 

[Bushman5]

And here I though you were going to make pitch from all of that. Hell there sounds like enough left in the woods do a good batch

funny you mention pitch glue! last year i found a semi hard glob of pitch about the size of 24 beers. I sacrificed a good windbreaker to haul it home. After melting it down and straining it thru the GF's strainer (tee-hee ) i ended up with about a liter of premium yellowish color pitch. I still need to make pitch glue out of it...........

 

[srobin59]

You shouldn't have bagged it up that way. You could get nailed for distribution of a controled substance.

 

[Bushman5]

:thumbup: