First fire from fatwood!!!! Finally

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Well after two trips to the woods and failling to find real fatwood I finally found some and today processed the wood into small carry size pieces. I scraped the wood with my BECKER NECKER and made my pile of dust and used a LMF amy model steel and no sh!% it worked! was very pround and happy to get it done. I could only get cotton and dryer lint to light before and with a few good suggestions and help here I now broke my fatwood virginity! thanks guys, told my wife and she just looked at funny nlike whatever. lol so I'm telling you guy's:)
 
Great stuff buddy! Only problem is, now the addiction has hit ,you will be making the bloody things everytime ya hike....trust me on this one !:o
 
Congrats ... before I joined this forum I had no idea that stuff even existed, now I have about 15lbs of it :D
 
Fatwood is some great stuff. Fun to look for, and even more fun to burn :thumbup:
 
I like it. I've never made a fire out of it, but I was sent some and it's tru what they say about it. Lights up really easy and is waterproof. Get's your hands kinda sticky though...
 
it rained here all morning and was very damp but it lit right up. I think I am gonna try to find some even better wood cuz this was sticky but not reall sticky, I think I should have dug deeper into the stump. is it better in the center or is it the same on the outer edges? the stump was rotten around the stump and I dug out till I reached solid wood but stopped there, should I dig to the very center or is this as good as it gets?
 
It's a good feeling to get it to work! Congrats!


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Good stuff! I wasn't familiar with fatwood until I read a thread on BF not to long ago. Now finding some a processing it is on my list of things to do. Just something else to look for while out wondering in the woods.
 
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Well after two trips to the woods and failling to find real fatwood I finally found some and today processed the wood into small carry size pieces. I scraped the wood with my BECKER NECKER and made my pile of dust and used a LMF amy model steel and no sh!% it worked! was very pround and happy to get it done. I could only get cotton and dryer lint to light before and with a few good suggestions and help here I now broke my fatwood virginity! thanks guys, told my wife and she just looked at funny nlike whatever. lol so I'm telling you guy's:)
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Cool, good job. Don't worry...most womnen don't get it...until you warm their @$$es up in a cold rain using it. Then you get brownie points :D
 
I tried for the first time today and no luck. At least your story gives me encouragement. Cool, good job.
 
Congratulations! I'd much rather have some fatwood on me than that magnesium stuff...

Now it's time to graduate to starting fire with just plain wood. Same as with fat wood, only you don't have to find fatwood...
 
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