Making Pine Pitch Fire-Starters !

pitdog · Mar 7, 2011

Took the WSK out today and gathered some Fatwood and Pine Pitch to make some fire-starters.

Splitting fatwood is no problem for this beast of a knife, a little extra blade length would have been nice but I still managed to get more than enough fatwood for what I needed...

By pitdog2010 at 2011-03-07

Second split....

By pitdog2010 at 2011-03-07

That's two decent sized bits for my needs...

By pitdog2010 at 2011-03-07

Once home I filled a section of an egg box with the pitch mixture and made some fatwood shavings with the WSK...

By pitdog2010 at 2011-03-07

Topped it off with the shavings and I had my completed fire-starter !

By pitdog2010 at 2011-03-07

cody1 · Mar 7, 2011

Nice! Toss that in the pit, and things will go up pretty quick.. Fire made easy!

Cascade_mtn's · Mar 7, 2011

Good Lord Pit. You have enough tinder in this pic to last you 1-2 seasons.

I don't collect fat wood really. I do collect birch bark. There is more than enough fat wood here in the N.W. Birch bark is harder to find. Great pic BTW!!!!!!!!!

GRIM 62 · Mar 7, 2011

Great pics pit,you like your blades wide eh?.

m. wohlwend · Mar 7, 2011

If fatwood was gold , would this be the motherlode? ...... lol

norcalblacktail · Mar 7, 2011

Very cool Pit. How long do you think it will burn?

TheGame · Mar 7, 2011

Fatwood is some really great stuff. I rarely use it, but that's only because I don't need it that often to get a fire. But in bad conditions, it always has worked.

fugawee · Mar 7, 2011

ive never used pine pitch,
does it burn black and sooty
like it does when it settles in fatwood?

Diomedes Industries · Mar 7, 2011

Fug,

Yeah - it burns nasty just like it should!

TF

pitdog · Mar 7, 2011

I'd say they would burn for between 8 to 12 mins....maybe longer and very hot !

And yeah it does start off burning with a lot of black smoke, I observed this this evening as I watched it fill the living room amid a torrent of swear words from Mrs Pit.
Maybe they are best kept for the camp fire !!!!

Bushman5 · Mar 7, 2011

pitdog said:
I'd say they would burn for between 8 to 12 mins....maybe longer and very hot !

And yeah it does start off burning with a lot of black smoke, I observed this this evening as I watched it fill the living room amid a torrent of swear words from Mrs Pit.
Maybe they are best kept for the camp fire !!!!

I would pay good money to have been there for that, on the sidelines.....

John G · Mar 8, 2011

Pitdog's posts have convinced me that Vancouver Island is nothing but a floating mound of fatwood.