Fatwood questions

fatwood is NOT just limited to pine trees only. Douglas fir, hemlock etc all yeild fatwood.

Another excellent way of making a firestarter is to collect chucnks of pitch/sap/resin) boil it down for an hour, pour thru cheese cloth into a waxed condiment cup and let cool. You then shave off PURE resin flakes and light them with a fire steel or lighter.
 
Bushman5 said:
fatwood is NOT just limited to pine trees only. Douglas fir, hemlock etc all yeild fatwood.

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I have yet to find fatwood in Hemlock. I have tried and searched but never once have succeeded in finding it. Hemlock is the dominating conifer around here, and I wish it did produce fatwood, but I am gonna need to see it to believe it.
 
Loosearrow said:
We called fatwood pitch or pitch wood in New Mexico. I've heard greasewood as well.
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learnme said:
Back home in the Philippines it is called "Salin" pronounced as sahling, with a silent emphasis on the ng. The really juicy fat wood that's so fat its dripping is chewed on by some folks, just the sap, not the wood.... I tried it and it tastes like how gum tastes after you've chewed out all the sugars and flavors but with a hint of life;p Cant wait to go back and get that sweet sweet smell of some really fat fatwood.
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While the subject of this thread is not exactly a new one, I am really enjoying this thread. One of the things I really love about this forum is the contact with people in far away places and learning new things and new words. Often for some of the same things I have right here at home. I'll have to add those to my mental notes.


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tonym said:
I have yet to find fatwood in Hemlock. I have tried and searched but never once have succeeded in finding it. Hemlock is the dominating conifer around here, and I wish it did produce fatwood, but I am gonna need to see it to believe it.
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Same here. I love to hike among all of the Hemlocks that grow in the higher elevations here. There are some large stands of them here that create dark...mystical looking areas carpeted with lots of ferns that traverse kilometers along streams at the bottom edges of the upper most bluffs. They have always been one of my favorite trees. I have yet to find fatwood in any of the hemlock stands.


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mistwalker said:
Same here. I love to hike among all of the Hemlocks that grow in the higher elevations here. There are some large stands of them here that create dark...mystical looking areas carpeted with lots of ferns that traverse kilometers along streams at the bottom edges of the upper most bluffs. They have always been one of my favorite trees. I have yet to find fatwood in any of the hemlock stands.


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Yeah but the little dead twigs found on them burn almost as good no matter how much it has been raining. I grew up in the western NC mountains yall are making me homesick. Chris
 
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