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We all know the great qualities of finely split, or shaved fatwood for firestarting in less than ideal situations. What we have here is 1000% different. We spent a few hours gathering fatwood along the lakeshore, and then built a ridiculous fire, reaching more than 12 ft. high at it's peak. I had to snap a few shots just to record the abuse of resinous wood. It was all to bug my dad, who is always on us to never use more rich pine than absolutely needed, even though we keep literal logs of it on hand all the time. He was out of camp all day Fri., and so we laid this giant crosshatch fire about 20 minutes before he arrived back at camp. He pulled up, just shook his head in dismay, and set a chair about 15 feet back and asked what we were gonna tell the forest service after they mistakenly dispatched fire fighters to extinguish half the county, only to find 2 goofy goobers and about 100 lbs of fatwood aflame!
Seeing his face, and listening to his chiding and sarcasm all night was well worth the sweat, sawing, chopping , and splitting it took to prep that beast. Anyway, here are the pics:
Seeing his face, and listening to his chiding and sarcasm all night was well worth the sweat, sawing, chopping , and splitting it took to prep that beast. Anyway, here are the pics:
