Collecting fatwood

Thanks, cutting this stuff up with a saw is a real PITA, I took WD-40 the blade started gunking up pretty bad.
 
yea it will gum up yer saw teeth REAL fast. A kerosene lube works great on bigger cuts.

also, use a saw with wide offset teeth (wide kerf). It binds less
 
This is a really nice piece , i was trimming is up when we took this pic..:thumbup:

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The only fatwood ive ever found around my neck of the woods was at walmart :(

I got some just to have it. I love the stuff and would really like to be able to find it in the outdoors...

I used my son's chinese SAK's saw to get some maya dust and it did gunk it up quickly. thanks for the wd40 tips. made some good fluff and stuffed it into an edcdepot.com spy capsule that Marc from edcdepot sent me along in a trade. popped some out yesterday to show my dad and POOF we had fire!
 
theedge13, leave me a PM with your number, I'm sure we can work out a place where I can hook you up!
 
theedge13 said:
Not really...in central OK. we mostly have hardwoods. The pine family trees are usually in peoples yards and are ornamental. I dont think they would be too happy if i hack them up :D
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i'd love to hook you up with some BC fatwood, but Customs is real antsy about ANY wood products coming into the USA. even fire starter fatwoods.... :(
 
I live in the same city as he does, and he's right, most of it is hardwood.

Hopefully he gets my messages for free fatwood.
 
skimo...didnt even remember ya live in OKC.... ill resend an email w/ my number.

edit.

Email sent.

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Bushman5 said:
i'd love to hook you up with some BC fatwood, but Customs is real antsy about ANY wood products coming into the USA. even fire starter fatwoods.... :(
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Appreciate it my bro. Looks like a fellow okie has come to my rescue. :thumbup:

Thanks!
 
I find my own. I just don't try to take very much, I often wonder what some people are thinking when they take 20+ ponds of it out of the forest.
 
mrappraisit said:
I find my own. I just don't try to take very much, I often wonder what some people are thinking when they take 20+ ponds of it out of the forest.
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hmm.. I'm sure some people wonder why someone would spend more than $20 on a knife.... or why someone would own more than one or two? but still people do.

I would imagine people get it burn it...possibly give to friends? that's what I do.
 
Easier to carry in bulk, process it on your own time at home, that's my take on it. :D
 
mrappraisit said:
I find my own. I just don't try to take very much, I often wonder what some people are thinking when they take 20+ ponds of it out of the forest.
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well, i live in a large land mass region that has billions of stumps from 200+ years of logging. Those stumps are just going to rot anyways, might as well use what God and the Universe provides us. Its going to go right back into the soil once it burns anyways. Never mind the annual forest fires that burn up the fatwood......


I could harvest 1000 lbs a day for the rest of my life and not make a dent in even .000001% of the stumps here.

other regions might vary.

I have my uses for it. fire kits, teaching fire starting skills, giving away to people who dont have such rich resources, emergency use, signalling ec etc etc

EDIT: adding info for perspective: BC is home to 4.9 million people province wide. B.C.'s total land and freshwater area is 95 million hectares, larger than France and Germany combined. British Columbia occupies about 10 per cent of Canada's land surface.
 
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Bushman5 said:
well, i live in a large land mass region that has billions of stumps from 200+ years of logging. Those stumps are just going to rot anyways, might as well use what God and the Universe provides us. Its going to go right back into the soil once it burns anyways. Never mind the annual forest fires that burn up the fatwood......


I could harvest 1000 lbs a day for the rest of my life and not make a dent in even .000001% of the stumps here.

other regions might vary.

I have my uses for it. fire kits, teaching fire starting skills, giving away to people who dont have such rich resources, emergency use, signalling ec etc etc
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+1

Good post :thumbup:
 
Ah ha, now I know what some people are thinking when they take that much. It's cool if it's to teach or share w/others that don't have pine nearby, or even to give to people who cannot "get out" to harvest some.
 
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