FATWOOD: Find, Process, Ignite
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- Everything you need to know to locate, harvest, process, and light fatwood for your fire needs. Okay, maybe not everything, but most things.
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I watched your video went out found a mini stump. Made a mini piese of fat wood to go with 4 inch fire Ferro rod. Good stuff brother
Great job. I like how you explain that pine will "self prune" itself, and the resin deposit is a natural way to preserve itself. Most videos don't cover the science of the phenomenon, leading some to believe that finding it is a random Easter egg hunt, rather than a deliberate focused search for the lower limbs of a tall pine (for example). Great stuff and great video! Subscribed.
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been using fat wood to start fires in our woodstove all winter. appreciate the mention of using it as a torch, brilliant. thank you
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I've been a fan for a little over a year and I can't express the gratitude for the education. That was awesome. I love the Rambo Ninja intros also....
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We call it lighter knot in my AO (East Central Florida) great video btw!👍👍Lots of downed pines loaded with resin from past hurricanes.
Awesome- Been buying mine from the store, now I am wiser and more prepared. Thank You
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Never heard of fat wood before. But I loved this video. Very educational.
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Im a new subscriber and I enjoyed the fatwood video. Good information, thank you.
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Something addictive about that stuff!
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For sure...I even see it in my sleep....funny enough I like stumps...even have photos of some where I now know there is fatwood from watching this...but have over 2 feet of snow to get thru to the huge pines down for years...
Great video brother! That was some sweet looking stuff!
Thank you! I figured you'd appreciate a fatwood video. Thanks for watching and commenting!
I see your toy truck in the water behind your(5 minute in)! Good video keep it up!
Eagle eyes. Thanks for watching and commenting!
Gonna be headed up the mountain camping a lot here real soon. Thanks for showing what to really look for!
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Awesome video! Thank you for the idea's!
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Awesome video. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and experiences with me about fatwood, I appreciate it sir
Well done! Thanks for the info!
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Found out by accident how to make very fine shavings from fatwood.
Use a paddle bit in a drill and just drill holes. You'll love what you get.
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Another awesome video. Thanks
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I just stumbled upon your video here about fatwood finding /processing/igniting. I have to say dittos to Roddo regarding your excellent delivery.
Do you still use and recommend the Food Saver Sealer that you used? What model is that? I'm now looking for one.... thanks
It's an old one but still works. Thanks for watching and commenting!
Found a chunk of almost pure fatwood, 4 feet long x ~8'' in diameter in a clearcut a couple of weeks ago. Got me and a buddy supplied for years, if not life.
Hope to run across your path sometime, just over in LA myself. Stay safe out there!
Sounds like a lifetime supply. Thanks for the view and comment!
Wow the fatwood u found at 3:15 in the video is super good! If u get the rot off the outside i bet that whats left is an awesome piece of fatwood. Lower down into the ground is probably even better with more resin!
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Hi! So what you're looking for is wood that has a built in natural fuel to help keep your fire going? That vacuum sealed thing was a great idea btw, I probably sound really simple to you, but I live in a town/city in north east england so I basically spend no time at all in this kind of environment
Yes, I used fatwood which has flammable turpentine oils. Easier to light and burns hot. Thanks for watching and commenting!
Very nice video sir! Always enjoy watching yours.
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We're a bit wary of using pine in our woodstove after having a chimney fire last year. We had a load of firewood brought to us (we're older - can't go doing our own cutting) and most of it was green or pine. We're still on the learning curve, so we ended up with that chimney fire.
Pine not good for residential fireplace... too much sap and soot. Dried hardwoods are the only thing I would burn. Thanks for watching and commenting!
Good video, enjoy channel. Where I'm at have scrubby red cedar with limited fatwood. Have about 30 trees per square mile. Semper fi marine. My time in Corp late 60s.
Thought cedar works the same....no? Love cedar but not much in sask......
Loved this video, used the information recently to harvest some fat wood from black pines here in Kentucky. Just wondering if the cedar trees that are native here would have decent fat wood as well.
Juniper/cedar doesn't make true fatwood comparable to the pines, but the bark is great for fire starting because of the oils. The wood has oils, and will burn hot. Thanks for watching and commenting!
Thanks for the info.
Great video! Maybe this is a silly question but how do you identify if a stump or dead tree is an evergreen tree if there are no longer needles or branches? Thanks!
Good question. Mostly experience in seeing how different woods rot and looking around for the rest of the trunk. Thanks for the view and comment!
Great informative video.
New subscriber to your channel... Very interesting and informative . Thanks,sir. Will be watching for more. I work at a State Park and I enjoy gleaning as much bushcraft know-how as I can well done
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@@SurvivalTheory what is your opinion on the Wazoo necklace... I'm planning a trip to the app trail in Spring. I need a good reliable ferro rod,etc...
@@kittypetsurprise1304 I would stick to a simple ferro rod rather than "survival gear" gadgets incorporated into a necklace. Check my Amazon link for some more robust ferro rods of different sizes. I've met the wazoo guys, they are nice people.
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Good video! Keep them coming!
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I so appreciate your videos because they are very informative. I learned a great deal from this video and have a much better understanding of what to look for and how to process.
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Great video sir
Great informative video
Great video
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I recently went out to try some gear and then CV collect fatwood. I was about to pack up when I saw what had been a large pine tree. It was very rotted and stands 20 ft tall with no limbs.
I went back to get more today and just finished processing it. This tree has by far the richest, largest, high quality, translucent fat wood I have ever seen. From what I see so far, after you knock of bark and rot, this 30 inch diameter tree is all fatwood coming up to at least 3 feet of the ground, maybe more.
I took some pics and a little video which I may put into a TH-cam video.
Update: the video is called I FOUND GOLD IN THE WOODS. I went to that tree again and resupplied because I had used up most of what I had. The main thing I use it for is to get my wood gassifier going. I just put 2-3 small fatwood sticks along with the other wood, then sprinkle on some golden scrapping, and fire it up. It is especially helpful when wood is wet after several days of rain.
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Plain old small wood rasp works great 2 make shavings, don't clog up as easy.
such a great video brother
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Love 💘 them corona folding saws
What kind of fixed blade was that? OKC?
Yes, the Blackbird. Thanks for watching and commenting!
Love that intro!
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If you're in a pine forrest, there isnt any point in harvest, and carry this with you. It will only ad weight to your backpack. The trick with fatwood, is that it burn anyway, even if the rest of the tree is soaking wet. Thats the beauty of it.
I live in norway, and the forrest here is mostly pine, sprous and birch. All of this trees provide naturally tinder wich you can use straigth from the tree. You do not need to dry it at home. Birch bark will always ignite, so thats my first choice of tinder- spesially if I use a ferro rod. It dosnt need much work, you just peel it of the tre. Fatwood, I mostly use in big chunks on the fire, because it burns even wet, and it burn fore a long time. Spouse- think thats the right name in inglish?- gives a lot of resin on the tree, so that also is a good tinder-
The bad thing about burning fatwood, is the black smoke it gives. But the heat make up fore the disadvantage.
I don't try to dry fatwood at home, but I like to make emergency tinder packs out of it. Sometimes there is no fatwood around, or it's 20 feet up the tree. Wish we had birch where I am. Thanks for watching and commenting!
I just found your channel. You are very good at making tarp shelter, so I do actually learn something bye watching. So I subscribe. I have lived all my life in the woods, much like the conditions you see in fare north bushcraft- with Lonnie. Norway is fare north, so if you camp out all year here, you have to know your stuff. The cold in winter kills you if you dont.
I couldnt live in your condition. I cant stand the heat. So burning fires is something I do a lot. My house, I live here with three huskies, tre children and a wife, is in the middel of nowhere in the woods, and my cabin cant be reached with car. You have to walk or ski, or use sledgedogs- I love that- so I try to keep thing simple.
Fishing, foraging, hunting has been a way of life for 50 years now. Learned from my father and he has from his father thru the generations. I track almost anything. So in a forrest/ highland/ mountain I'm at home. In a city, not so much. Carpenter is my occupation, building houses.
You have some good videos, so I watched some of it. Will propably se them all, even if the prepping and shtf stuff isnt relevant fore me. I can live of the land with almost nothing. So I do not fear an apocalypse, hehe.
Keep those videos comming. I like the humor, and i acctually learn something when you set up tarps. With regards
Hello,Norway! From North Carolina,USA your country is one of my favorites... I hope to visit there someday..
Spruce maybe...
You should bust up the rotten logs and get the entire knot out. It amounts to another 3 to 6 inches of fat wood.
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Nice vid thank you
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wish we had pine trees in the philippines
Never mind, I just saw this video.
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lots of info
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