Love the vid, if a pine tree is cut, the root system does not relies the tree is no longer there. The sap that would normally be pumped into the tree is now being pumped into this small stump thus developing FAT WOOD over time. My backyard used to be a pine forest I harvest the fat wood as needed for my campfires. A chunk of fat wood will burn wonderfully giving off a nice smelling fire.
Growing up, it was called lightard around here. Learned the term "fatwood" fairly recently. When out in the woods where pines grow, look for what appears to be a skeleton of a fallen tree. That's the heartwood, after the rest has rotted away. Loaded with resin. Some times see fallen branches with that skeleton appearance. Easier to pick these up than chopping at stumps. However, stumps are good sources. Especially in areas that were logged and new forest has filled in. Again, most has rotted away, except the heartwood. Growing up & to this day, use fatwood as "matches" to light other tinder. Don't burn any more of this resource than is necessary to start a fire. Easy way to use those packages sold in stores, is to first cut pieces in half lengthwise. By what ever means available. Ax, saw, etc. Then split (batton) into small pieces. Will double the number of fires that can be started under normal circumstances from one package. Pieces the size of a match will do what a match can't do. As a general rule, sustain a fire long enough to ignite more easily obtained tinder. To further ration, if scarce resource where you live, is to scrape fat wood, as if scraping a magnesium bar. Advantage is that while not as hot, will burn longer to ignite dried grasses, for example. FWIW, if available, dry pine cones & fatwood are a great combo to start fires. Every year I collect dry cones to use for starting fires in my shop stove and in the fireplace. Quite a few fires can be started with a 5 gal bucket of cones. Large cones (some pine species) can be chopped into pieces.
I'm a fatwood addict myself, and I can't horde enough to suit me. I have three duffle bags packed full of great fatwood logs. I live in Northern West Virginia, the mountain state, and I find the majority in the lower limbs on our pine trees. 4 and 5 inch thick logs saturated with pine sap. There is nothing better in my opinion than fatwood, including birch trees... I probably have 150lbs of some of the best fatwood out there.. I have a couple pine thickets near by that has everything you need to stock up on it, nature's greatest tinder.... Thanks for sharing your thoughts and opinion on this awesome material, I appreciate it sir. 🔫😎🔫
I like how you demonstrated the dry regular wood vs. the fatwood. :) I've watched a lot of these videos on fatwood and so far you are the only one to do this. it's easy to think all wood is going to light right up after watching fatwood videos. Great video.
Bought a bag today. It was mostly slightly more sappy pieces of pine but there was a good amount of really good resin filled sticks. I spent an hour splitting them into little pieces just for the fun of it. Cost was about $6 at Home Depot and they had a ton of it. Thanks for sharing Jeff this is a wonderful product.
Hah! I also will sit and baton it down into little pieces just for fun. Who needs expensive toys?! Works great for starting a fireplace fire without newspaper.
I assumed the tree injects resin into dying branches to deter insects from burrowing into the tree at that point. So the base of the small branches would be full of the terpenes.
Good video and thanks for explaining that fatwood is found in the center of the tree. I saw a video yesterday where the guy was standing on a fresh tree limb break and peeling off the sap coated bark and was calling it fatwood.
I've always just called it lighter wood. My dad used to send me out in the woods as a kid with a hatchet, and I'd find a stump and hack that shit up, take it back to the house for a fire. Good times....
I read the description box and it made me think of the old youtube when you could have tags and you would put little funny phrases and jokes out of the tags. I miss the old days
Fatwood can really suck if used indoors. If you don't get a good draft immediately, the smoke from fatwood getting into your house is awful. another good option is to save the lint from your dryer, when you have a bunch, put it in an empty egg carton and pour melted wax in each egg holder. makes a great fire starter and you can get big blocks of wax to melt down really cheap compared to fatwood.
The house I grew up in didn't have central heating/cooling. We heated our house by a wood burning stove. Daddy would have me up early on Saturday out in the woods cutting trees for firewood. I grew up knowing this wood as kindling. This is the only way we started our fires. Only recently have I learned the term "fatwood".
Had to laugh at the thumbnail for the video it reminds me of those Russian videos that click bait you to watch them. That said great video and myself love fat wood. I have to say it's the best to get a fire going and smells awesome. I like to let others know instead of magnesium to use non waxed cotton ball to catch the spark of a ferro rod. I tell you all it takes is tiny spark to get a cotton ball to light up. No need for Vaseline or wax that stuff just makes it harder to light a cotton ball although it makes the cotton ball burn longer but it is not needed when lighting or using fat wood. You are just trying to get the fat wood lit. I like to make long slim strips of fatwood to use with a match and I use it as a match extender. I hold match next to the thin long fat wood piece and strike the match and it lights the fatwood at the same time and then I have a long match basically that burns long and hot to light my regular wood tinder.
Sorry to disagree but for over a decade ive been collecting fatwood from different types of trees, & the terpene in coniferous trees is sometimes more concentrated in the crotches or knots of the tree than in the trunk. I liked ur video, thanks for sharing.
I keep hoping to find fatwood that I can collect myself, but I may end up at home hardware, myself. I enjoyed your demo. Long story short: I had 2 days to get from coast of BC to Calgary Alta and wanted to do a bushcraft dinner in the Rockies, but the wind kept snuffing the fire in my Nano firebox. I ate raw mushrooms and radishes for dinner.
I got a 30 lb box from orvis, 1/2 of what you get is good 1/4 is very good and 1/4 is awesome! Lots of sap!! I've bought 5 lb bags 10 lb bags and now 30 lb box, no matter what size you buy you get that same ratio
Really nice video! I appreciate the post very much I love the aroma of fatwood! I know where to buy it but man would I love to find a big stump of it in the wild... atb!
You don't need to make fat wood slivers, just make a fuzz stick out of the fat wood stick and use a ferro rod. In wet conditions use the back of your knife blade to produce a small pile of fust shavings into that prepared stick and it will ignite ASAP.
that is the best way to do it if you are going to use it to get a fire going is to mak the shaveings you dont need as much as you are showing and if you find a pine tree that is bleeding sap and it has dried to where it is not sticking to your finger you can use it the sap is better then the fatwood as a lot of ppl call it i call it lighter wood im from the south i live in ga
can you just light the end like torch without even processing it at all? seems like it would light no matter what so long as you could hold a flame to it
i know of a downed pine tree and the whole log is fat wood but its out of state (arkansas) so when i visit i gather shaveings in my tube vault. wish i knew of a local source that i can harvest but i enjoy camping there
any and all pine trees have this,although some species contain a little more than others if you happen to have a fallen one on your property perhaps you can harvest the stump for yourself
"Baby got back!" lol... The butt tree, a plentiful source of fat wood.. Haha. And, sure. "or birch bark..." If you live where birch grows. Don't be so dismissive, people. Some of us have to work for our firestarter. But not too hard, if you know where to look.
That's funny you upload this. I gathered it for the first time today bug in a different way. I cut 1-3 inch dead branches off a pine tree and about 75% of the time the first 3-6 inches are all fatwood
Also Folks if you're out camping and everything is wet, well start your fire with this fatwood and lay the wet wood around the fire so it drys out some then toss it in
I have naver heard of fatwood, A wile ago i colected some trees resin to start a fire but id dident work.. Time to put it in a branch ant try it again :-)
wow, fatwood porn. that was a very nice piece of pine. you don't see that good of a piece in the woods. your lucky to get one half as good as that. thanks for the info.
Love the vid, if a pine tree is cut, the root system does not relies the tree is no longer there. The sap that would normally be pumped into the tree is now being pumped into this small stump thus developing FAT WOOD over time. My backyard used to be a pine forest I harvest the fat wood as needed for my campfires. A chunk of fat wood will burn wonderfully giving off a nice smelling fire.
Growing up, it was called lightard around here. Learned the term "fatwood" fairly recently. When out in the woods where pines grow, look for what appears to be a skeleton of a fallen tree. That's the heartwood, after the rest has rotted away. Loaded with resin. Some times see fallen branches with that skeleton appearance. Easier to pick these up than chopping at stumps.
However, stumps are good sources. Especially in areas that were logged and new forest has filled in. Again, most has rotted away, except the heartwood.
Growing up & to this day, use fatwood as "matches" to light other tinder. Don't burn any more of this resource than is necessary to start a fire. Easy way to use those packages sold in stores, is to first cut pieces in half lengthwise. By what ever means available. Ax, saw, etc. Then split (batton) into small pieces. Will double the number of fires that can be started under normal circumstances from one package. Pieces the size of a match will do what a match can't do. As a general rule, sustain a fire long enough to ignite more easily obtained tinder.
To further ration, if scarce resource where you live, is to scrape fat wood, as if scraping a magnesium bar. Advantage is that while not as hot, will burn longer to ignite dried grasses, for example.
FWIW, if available, dry pine cones & fatwood are a great combo to start fires. Every year I collect dry cones to use for starting fires in my shop stove and in the fireplace. Quite a few fires can be started with a 5 gal bucket of cones. Large cones (some pine species) can be chopped into pieces.
I'm a fatwood addict myself, and I can't horde enough to suit me. I have three duffle bags packed full of great fatwood logs. I live in Northern West Virginia, the mountain state, and I find the majority in the lower limbs on our pine trees. 4 and 5 inch thick logs saturated with pine sap. There is nothing better in my opinion than fatwood, including birch trees... I probably have 150lbs of some of the best fatwood out there.. I have a couple pine thickets near by that has everything you need to stock up on it, nature's greatest tinder.... Thanks for sharing your thoughts and opinion on this awesome material, I appreciate it sir. 🔫😎🔫
I like how you demonstrated the dry regular wood vs. the fatwood. :) I've watched a lot of these videos on fatwood and so far you are the only one to do this. it's easy to think all wood is going to light right up after watching fatwood videos. Great video.
Bought a bag today. It was mostly slightly more sappy pieces of pine but there was a good amount of really good resin filled sticks. I spent an hour splitting them into little pieces just for the fun of it. Cost was about $6 at Home Depot and they had a ton of it. Thanks for sharing Jeff this is a wonderful product.
Hah! I also will sit and baton it down into little pieces just for fun. Who needs expensive toys?! Works great for starting a fireplace fire without newspaper.
I assumed the tree injects resin into dying branches to deter insects from burrowing into the tree at that point.
So the base of the small branches would be full of the terpenes.
Good video and thanks for explaining that fatwood is found in the center of the tree. I saw a video yesterday where the guy was standing on a fresh tree limb break and peeling off the sap coated bark and was calling it fatwood.
Fantastic video. Thanks for posting Cutlerylover!
Imagine how flammable the fatwood factory is!
The tree has a butt!
Jeff, thanks for this video! Both my car and house emergency kits now have fatwood!
Thank you for showing you putting the fire out correctly.
Interesting, thx for sharing this.
Well that is pretty cool! Never heard of it before! Thanks!
I've always just called it lighter wood. My dad used to send me out in the woods as a kid with a hatchet, and I'd find a stump and hack that shit up, take it back to the house for a fire. Good times....
Very good info,thank you.
I learned what fatwood is today. Thanks, Jeff!
Great information. I didn't know it could be found at the Home Depot. Thanks man.
I like the looks of that Schrade.
Thanks for the information, was wondering about fat wood.
I think this was the first time I heard smone say look for the fatwood at the eye of the tree. thx for the vid!
+The Dragon Lady
most loggers call the center the heart of the tree or heart wood
Excellent video
I read the description box and it made me think of the old youtube when you could have tags and you would put little funny phrases and jokes out of the tags. I miss the old days
Right click, view page source, you're welcome.
Fat wood is my favorite fire starter because you can use just a little bit or in a emergency you can use several large sticks to make a quick HOT fire
Just keep doing what you are doing. Good video.
Great video
bro knows what he's doing with that thumbnail
This description box sure is cozy and welcoming.
Speaking of candle wicks, if you get a piece of birch bark, old dead birch bark, it can be used as a wick.
Fatwood can really suck if used indoors. If you don't get a good draft immediately, the smoke from fatwood getting into your house is awful. another good option is to save the lint from your dryer, when you have a bunch, put it in an empty egg carton and pour melted wax in each egg holder. makes a great fire starter and you can get big blocks of wax to melt down really cheap compared to fatwood.
The house I grew up in didn't have central heating/cooling. We heated our house by a wood burning stove. Daddy would have me up early on Saturday out in the woods cutting trees for firewood. I grew up knowing this wood as kindling. This is the only way we started our fires. Only recently have I learned the term "fatwood".
That is my go to firestarter.
Will definitely look for fatwood next time I go to home depot
thanks for the info
Had to laugh at the thumbnail for the video it reminds me of those Russian videos that click bait you to watch them. That said great video and myself love fat wood. I have to say it's the best to get a fire going and smells awesome. I like to let others know instead of magnesium to use non waxed cotton ball to catch the spark of a ferro rod. I tell you all it takes is tiny spark to get a cotton ball to light up. No need for Vaseline or wax that stuff just makes it harder to light a cotton ball although it makes the cotton ball burn longer but it is not needed when lighting or using fat wood. You are just trying to get the fat wood lit. I like to make long slim strips of fatwood to use with a match and I use it as a match extender. I hold match next to the thin long fat wood piece and strike the match and it lights the fatwood at the same time and then I have a long match basically that burns long and hot to light my regular wood tinder.
Always called em pine knots! Love the smell, they burn forever and they're amazing!!
I MUST HAVE THIS NOW
Sorry to disagree but for over a decade ive been collecting fatwood from different types of trees, & the terpene in coniferous trees is sometimes more concentrated in the crotches or knots of the tree than in the trunk. I liked ur video, thanks for sharing.
LOL the end made me want to pee.! good vid.
I keep hoping to find fatwood that I can collect myself, but I may end up at home hardware, myself. I enjoyed your demo. Long story short: I had 2 days to get from coast of BC to Calgary Alta and wanted to do a bushcraft dinner in the Rockies, but the wind kept snuffing the fire in my Nano firebox. I ate raw mushrooms and radishes for dinner.
Catch a sale and fatwood can be $1/lb. Just like flint, fatwood is easy to find once you get the hang of it.
Buy a wind screen, or learn to make one.
I got a 30 lb box from orvis, 1/2 of what you get is good 1/4 is very good and 1/4 is awesome! Lots of sap!! I've bought 5 lb bags 10 lb bags and now 30 lb box, no matter what size you buy you get that same ratio
Really nice video! I appreciate the post very much I love the aroma of fatwood! I know where to buy it but man would I love to find a big stump of it in the wild... atb!
I got a fatwood lookin at that thumbnail
kiLLjoy24CALI wow just just Wow
Cool. I had no idea.
You don't need to make fat wood slivers, just make a fuzz stick out of the fat wood stick and use a ferro rod. In wet conditions use the back of your knife blade to produce a small pile of fust shavings into that prepared stick and it will ignite ASAP.
Great video, very helpful. The tree in the picture of your video looks like a booty -- it's got junk in the trunk (no pun intended).
I was yelling Jurassic park!!!!
us country folk call it litard (lite'ard) knot.....it's plentiful in the forest of the Southern woods.... smells like turpentine
yeah the terpene is a word derived from turpentine
cutlerylover yeah i understood ya.....lol
Nice Ash!
but it's not lite 'ard it's lite 'easy
+JOHNNYMasteratArms DUNN Country folk here in the north always called it turpentine wood. Fancier city folks here called it resin wood.
that is the best way to do it if you are going to use it to get a fire going is to mak the shaveings you dont need as much as you are showing and if you find a pine tree that is bleeding sap and it has dried to where it is not sticking to your finger you can use it the sap is better then the fatwood as a lot of ppl call it i call it lighter wood im from the south i live in ga
Pine-Cones works well too!
It has a pungent Turpentine smell as well!
can you just light the end like torch without even processing it at all? seems like it would light no matter what so long as you could hold a flame to it
Menard's also has 5-lb. Fatwood packages as well as small packs with 4-6 pieces.
There was some junk in that trunk blah hahaha I'm still laughing
i know of a downed pine tree and the whole log is fat wood but its out of state (arkansas) so when i visit i gather shaveings in my tube vault. wish i knew of a local source that i can harvest but i enjoy camping there
any and all pine trees have this,although some species contain a little more than others if you happen to have a fallen one on your property perhaps you can harvest the stump for yourself
I carry an airtight jar of fatwood shavings whenever i go camping. by far best tinder.
That thumbnail of the tree then the title: Fat Wood😆
Tree has a big butt
"Baby got back!" lol... The butt tree, a plentiful source of fat wood.. Haha. And, sure. "or birch bark..." If you live where birch grows. Don't be so dismissive, people. Some of us have to work for our firestarter. But not too hard, if you know where to look.
Nice knife
That's funny you upload this. I gathered it for the first time today bug in a different way. I cut 1-3 inch dead branches off a pine tree and about 75% of the time the first 3-6 inches are all fatwood
Back in the day we called it "pitch".
we call it rich lighter and it is also decently waterproof
Also Folks if you're out camping and everything is wet, well start your fire with this fatwood and lay the wet wood around the fire so it drys out some then toss it in
That fatwood is T H I C C
If a pine tree is rotting on the outside and you bust it up there is usually a solid core of Fatwood. Also, does anyone else call it Fat lighter?
I do and have heard it called that by some people in my neck of the woods all my life
Chuck Correll
We always called it "lighter wood"
Just saw a spider fleding the scene haha :-)
Nice video. Does that stuff have a shelf life? Does the turpene evaporate over time?
I use my ferro rod to light them. just need thin feathers
*giggles* i just clicked on it b/c it looked like a butt smh lol
I was sure relieved when you used the tinder for sparks ! I was thinking you were really stupid !
here in Florida, at least where I am we call it a lighter not, because it lights easy.
looks like tasty beef jerky
The only resin I find is in my joints, not at the joints.
i buy those from kroger and love em
Some of that water looked a little yellow :)
plasma is the word
Do a video on how to find fatwood jeff please!
Stupid question. Does fatwood have a shelf life? I would guess no but am curious. Thanks cutlerylover.
You know why you clicked on this video...lol
is that a FARTWOOD?!? xD
The movie is called jurassic park when they take muisqitos blood to make dinosaurs
Someone could run some Rorschach style test with the thumbnail Jeff picked.
this is beef jerky for beavers
we call that alcouta
Anyone else look at the thumbnail for this video and think, African tribal video?
lol
what the mosquito was stuck in in jurassic park was amber thats where the color got its name.
Fuck you
Rhys Tucker ?
Now if I do resin it don't usually help me too much it helps to get me high blah hahaha
why youtube why
"fatwood" sees thumbnail- More like phat ass wood amirite
I have naver heard of fatwood,
A wile ago i colected some trees resin to start a fire but id dident work.. Time to put it in a branch ant try it again :-)
Jeff when are you gonna pull that old leatherman out of the ballistol?
just did and the video will be up tomorrow
***** nice
***** Nice, without the character limits this actually works now.
That was a very large pee stream at the end man.. wtf.
Is this wood soft, knife scales made from it would be cool?
It kind of has a sticky feel so I really don't recommend it
My first wife was a beach
I dont have pine tree here where i live, where i can look for to get fat wood
wow, fatwood porn. that was a very nice piece of pine. you don't see that good of a piece in the woods. your lucky to get one half as good as that. thanks for the info.
FOREST FIRE
u know what would be awesome it would be awesome if u got into videogames :D
I would LOVE to get GTA5 and do at least one video on here of gameplay...
now I want to play out side thank a lot c-lover :D
I love the smell of fat wood!