Maybe My Best Fatwood Yet !!!

pitdog

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Got myself a little bundle of Fatwood yesterday and secured it with some cedar root to make a carry handle ( Like a little woodland handbag eh !:D).

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Anyway I processed it today and had to show ya how good it is:

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Almost pure resin all the way through:

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Even Snicker knew this was special !

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Pretty sad what I get excited about nowdays eh !:o
 
YEA BUDDY! THATS FATWOOD HOLY GRAIL MAN!!!!

WOOOOOOOOOTTTTTT!


good score!

nice handbag Pittyboo..........;):D:thumbup:
 
I'm having myself a little fatwood scraps fire right now, man this stuff is awesome.

That's some real nice stuff Pit, I dig the cedar root man purse too;)
 
so, i'm new and unsure what your use for the fatwood might be? and where do you find it?

Man-bag, it's a european man-bag! ;)
 
grlangr said:
so, i'm new and unsure what your use for the fatwood might be? and where do you find it?

Man-bag, it's a european man-bag! ;)
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fatwood
 is very resinous wood that is waterproof, and if you scrape off a bunch of shavings, it will ignite even in the rain and burn rather violently. It is a lifesaver in the wilderness.

check your email :)
 
Bushman5 said:
fatwood
 is very resinous wood that is waterproof, and if you scrape off a bunch of shavings, it will ignite even in the rain and burn rather violently. It is a lifesaver in the wilderness.

check your email :)
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Bushy, are you spamming fatwood now? :eek:
 
Iboschi said:
Bushy, are you spamming fatwood now? :eek:
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Bushy is always spamming fatwood.:D

I think he has an "Infomercial" running at 3:00 in the morning, nation wide.:D

That's some nice looking stuff, Pitdog. Looks like Snicker thinks so, too.
 
Bushman5 said:
fatwood
 is very resinous wood that is waterproof, and if you scrape off a bunch of shavings, it will ignite even in the rain and burn rather violently. It is a lifesaver in the wilderness.

check your email :)
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Great link, and explanations and pictures.

I got some absolutely awesome fatwood from some really unexpected wood in the back yard. I was splitting logs for the wood stove, and pulled a bunch out of the pile that just would not split. It was bouncing my 10 pound maul off without even creasing the wood. In 20 years of splitting firewood for the stove, I have never chopped anything that took as many full power swings to split. Some of that stuff took 20-30 full strength hits in the same spot to split. I tried using my splitting wedges and it was so hard to get them started I only did one that way. But at the middle, was some really dense fatwood. Works great for fire starting, and I did not really have to even leave the back yard (unless you count going into the mountains with my dad and chain saws, cutting the trees down, limbing them, loading them into the truck, and making the trip back to the house 3 hours away.......).
 
a theory on why we get so excited about fatwood......

first one has to go find it, so that means going out into the woods with knives and axes! hell ya! we are away from the nags, this is our time! most likely we are with our buddies and there is beer. Then there is the hunt, the anticipation as one chops into a fallen log to see if its resin saturated. The heart quickens and the breathing increases as the outer layers of moss and bark are shorn off violently, exposing the gleaming golden or purplish hues of resiny rich wood. The turpentine smell reaches our noses and causes us to inhale deeply. Then we cleave off chunks of fatwood and hold it high above our heads the blood, er resin staining our knives and hands. HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHHAHAHAHA we exalt! BOUNTY!

we get more excited as we shave off bits of fatwood, into a pile and light them. The black oily smoke caresses us and drifts up into the sky.....
 
Bushman5 said:
a theory on why we get so excited about fatwood......

first one has to go find it, so that means going out into the woods with knives and axes! hell ya! we are away from the nags, this is our time! most likely we are with our buddies and there is beer. Then there is the hunt, the anticipation as one chops into a fallen log to see if its resin saturated. The heart quickens and the breathing increases as the outer layers of moss and bark are shorn off violently, exposing the gleaming golden or purplish hues of resiny rich wood. The turpentine smell reaches our noses and causes us to inhale deeply. Then we cleave off chunks of fatwood and hold it high above our heads the blood, er resin staining our knives and hands. HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHHAHAHAHA we exalt! BOUNTY!

we get more excited as we shave off bits of fatwood, into a pile and light them. The black oily smoke caresses us and drifts up into the sky.....
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:)


This reminds me, anyone have experience with Ipe? It's a wood that's naturally very resinous (entirely waterproof as a result). I lit some shavings up over the summer after working with it, and they burned with a thick black smoke. I'll have to experiment with it as a firestarter at some point.
 
Bushman5 said:
a theory on why we get so excited about fatwood......

first one has to go find it, so that means going out into the woods with knives and axes! hell ya! we are away from the nags, this is our time! most likely we are with our buddies and there is beer. Then there is the hunt, the anticipation as one chops into a fallen log to see if its resin saturated. The heart quickens and the breathing increases as the outer layers of moss and bark are shorn off violently, exposing the gleaming golden or purplish hues of resiny rich wood. The turpentine smell reaches our noses and causes us to inhale deeply. Then we cleave off chunks of fatwood and hold it high above our heads the blood, er resin staining our knives and hands. HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHHAHAHAHA we exalt! BOUNTY!

we get more excited as we shave off bits of fatwood, into a pile and light them. The black oily smoke caresses us and drifts up into the sky.....
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LOL...good stuff !:D:thumbup:
 
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