PITDOG! I'm throwing the fatwood torch gauntlet down!

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Pitdog! this is a torch off! you and me man! the gauntlet has been thrown down, :D

here my entry for tonight:

A patio torch, made from all the bits of fatwood slivers i made today.

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cat food tin torch, in planter base (safety)
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gust of wind!

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I burnt a whole stump once didnt realize it was fat wood until i saw the pool of hardened resin it left on the concrete part of my back yard.
I was wondering how it burnt so damn long.....
 
I have several hundred pounds of fatwood in several boxes. I'm almost tempted to light it all on fire just to see how long it would burn. I don't think the fire station down the street would appreciate it much, but at least they would be temporarily entertained by my stupidity.
 
I was just watching some of the Olympic torch run,was sorta expecting to see a couple guys running alongside with burning fatwood sticks
 
Living in a part of the country where all the stumps are frozen solid and buried under a foot of hard-packed snow, I'm horrified to see all that fatwood burned at once when I can't even dig out a splinter of the stuff! :D

That is pretty cool, though.
 
That's pretty cool but it's not really a torch.

Definition of torch :a light usually carried in the hand; consists of some flammable substance.

What else you got ? :D
 
when i was out hunting the other day i found a nice fatwood stump, so i hacked into it with my axe and got about 10lbs of it and then burned it all cooking my lunch..i wish i had my camera.
 
Two years ago the forestry department did a controlled burn where I hunt elk, they had been in there burning around trees and burned up a few hundred old pitch stumps. The stump would burn all the way down and follow the roots leaving little tunnels. The ODFW guy I spoke with said they had been in there two weeks prior and there were still stumps burning. Pitdog, I wish you luck on that one.... :-)
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