Fatwood Score...

matthewdanger

matthewdanger

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You are probably expecting a thread about me hiking through a pine forest and hacking my way through a rotting stump to find that pure gold we call fatwood... but this thread is going to be far more pedestrian than that. :p

It goes against my nature to pay for fatwood but this was too good to pass. If you live near a Meijer go check out the camping section. I found large containers of fatwood on sale for $1.50!

I checked out in the back wooded lot and it works great.

Go get it!
 
i have yet to expirience the magic that is fatwood, but now i plan on getting some, especially since its only a dollar fifty!
 
This summer, our campsite for nine days included a row of pine stumps - large Austrian Pine killed by a fungus. After a rain, I noticed that one stump didn't look wet. Sure enough, except for the outer 1" the stump was saturated with pitch. I harvested at least ten pounds, but that was just a start. First I've found in Ohio. Gives me hope for more.
 
Thomas Linton said:
This summer, our campsite for nine days included a row of pine stumps - large Austrian Pine killed by a fungus. After a rain, I noticed that one stump didn't look wet. Sure enough, except for the outer 1" the stump was saturated with pitch. I harvested at least ten pounds, but that was just a start. First I've found in Ohio. Gives me hope for more.
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After hacking up many dead stumps, I have never found fatwood in ohio.
In fact, my small amount of fatwood was harvested in colorado on my sisters mothers property.
Other bits have been given to me.
 
Fatwood is starting to flare up all over. I have seen some at Wally world, safeway, etc., but none of it is as good as the stuff I can find while up camping. It works, but is no where near the resin content that I have found recently. A $1.50 is a lot less to fork out than a half hour of chopping and scraping though.
 
This stuff actually appears to have pretty good resin content. It makes nice sticky curls that look slightly "wet" when you use the spine of a knife. It is some of the better commercial fat wood that I have used.

The package has simple pictorial instructions on the front and text in both English and French. It is called "Magic Igniter".
 
macgregor22 said:
After hacking up many dead stumps, I have never found fatwood in ohio.
In fact, my small amount of fatwood was harvested in colorado on my sisters mothers property.
Other bits have been given to me.
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Never saw it in Ohio before. The tree was alive two years ago when we last used Camp McKinley. Nothing special to explain why one stump out of five turned out that way. Email me your address and I'll send you some. You'll know the package by smell.
 
Thomas Linton said:
Never saw it in Ohio before. The tree was alive two years ago when we last used Camp McKinley. Nothing special to explain why one stump out of five turned out that way. Email me your address and I'll send you some. You'll know the package by smell.
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Thats ok mate, I have more then I can use right now.
Really generous of you.
If you want to go backpacking or something though just email me.
I did an ohio wilderness gathering awhile back and will probly do one in the future, you should come down.
 
I "scored" some fatwood, found this about 3 minutes away from my house. The stump must weigh atleast a couple hundreds pounds. -



Now to go back down sometime, and harvest some.
 
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