Fat wood in 100+ yr old floorboards

[ISKski]

the title says it all, i believe the house we were working in was built in the 1870's. Sadly, i had to take out the floor in the third story bathroom so that it could be re-plumbed... But as I broke one of the last pieces in the bathroom, I got the OVERWHELMING scent of pine (fatwood smell) .. The resins have been settling for well over a hundred years, could be the most flammable fatwood i've ever come acorss...

Not very woodsy or anything, but it shows that you should be resourceful and surprises hide in all sorts of places
*I do not condone or endorse the destruction of public/private property, nor mother earth for the retrieval of fatwood

[video=youtube_share;F8L4hyU0CW0]http://youtu.be/F8L4hyU0CW0[/video]
My first youtube video too, (just got an iphone so i have upgraded pocket technology, hopefully bringing more to share)

ISK

 

[hung-solo]

cool...just think. one nice spark and that whole house would be up in flames. dont you love old school pine houses?

 

[CWL]

Yep, the first thing I thought about is the high fire hazard resinous pines would be in a house.

Needs to be removed and put to good use elsewhere!

 

[hung-solo]

Yep, the first thing I thought about is the high fire hazard resinous pines would be in a house.

Needs to be removed and put to good use elsewhere!

one of my cousins bought the 100+ yr old house my great grandparents used to live in and had to totally take it down, saved what he could and rebuilt the house. he used what he could from the old house. the resinous thick pine supports were used to make a table and chairs that sit in the dining room. smells like pine.. love it. he did that house right. he knew that pine would light up in no time so he didnt put that back into the structure of the house

 

[Shotgun]

I work in shipping and receiving and you can find pitchwood in pallets every now and again. Especially in the knots.

 

[upnorth]

Great score for you and kind of spooky if that place ever lit up with someone home.

 

[infocus2006]

Early houses had a lot of fatwood in them. Never had to worry about termites and other bugs when fatwood was used. I know where a fence line is that is probably 2 miles long and every fence post is fatwood. A guy i work with is from Alabama and his grandpa was a volunteer fireman in Alabama. He was telling us that old houses in Alabama had mostly fatwood lumber in them and that they didn't even waste water on them cause they knew that they couldn't put it out.