The Great Fatwood Showdown

If the conditions are right, the core of a fallen tree can be good stuff. The closer you get to the stump the more concentrated the resin.
I scored a nice pile today on my outing. I keep the stump wood for starting. The wood from the core further from the stump I use for burning. It is more pleasant as the smoke is not as black but it still lights right up and burns forever.

Here are a few chunks from today and a glow piece:

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Some from last weeks haul:

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headchange4u said:
Anyone ever find a source for Douglas Fir fatwood? I don't have a lot of harvestable wood in my area. I've seen some nice looking fatwood on Ebay, but I reaaly would like to have some Douglas Fir if possible.
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Yes Doug fir produces fat wood. It is there. Just need someone to show you how to find it.
 
Quirt said:
Yes Doug fir produces fat wood. It is there. Just need someone to show you how to find it.
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Unfortunately, Douglas Fir's do not grow in my neck of the woods. I'm have to find another source. I'm hoping someone here on the forums can help me out.
 
Unfortunately, all of the dead pines I can find in my immediate area seem to be completely rotted, no solid wood left.

I'm going to have to make it up to the mountings to try to find some.

Oh, and then there's CAs no wood collection rules...
 
Since I am unable to find the Douglas Fir fatwood, I've been looking at what Ebay has to offer. There are a few sellers that will sell a medium Priority Mail flat rate box full of Fatwood for around $20 shipped.

This is the only one that specifies the tree and is labeled "GEORGIA HEART PINE".


This seller lists his fatwood as "100% Saturated". Looks like good stuff:


Another random seller that seems to be offering quality stuff:


Searching Ebay for "fatwood" will bring up any of those listings.
 
This is a interesting thread. I have only found fat wood once. It was in Colorado I have no idea what kind it is but it works well.
 
Here are a few chunks I picked up over the weekend:
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SideTracked said:
I've always been on the hunt for fatwood but have never been successful.
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I'm a fatwood junkie as bad as the next guy buddy, but there are more accessible alternatives. I bet that pretty much anywhere in North America were there are pine trees, country, farm, ornamentals in a city park, there is tree sap. It can be gathered in great weeping slathers down the bark, off broken limbs, or even in hard dried balls on the trunk. I find that this sap is basically the same thing and when a long dried old sap slathered strip of bark is lit, look out ! It goes up like napalm. Or toss some of the hard dried sap balls, or little gathered pieces, onto a half wet semi stagnant fire, and off she goes. Fatwood is sap\resin saturated wood. So just go to a city park, to the country, to the woods, whatever, and gather the sap up. Dried to a stone lump or still half wet and weepy, it all goes up like the forges of hell when it catches.
 
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