Where i live in Maryland fat wood is hard to find and is in small quantities. I always keep my eyes out for it testing parts of stumps or lower limbs on walks with the dog. It wasn't until this year that i found a pencils worth. It seems much easier to find some dried sap on the bark of the trees and rub it into a stick or make a ball of cat tails and sap. You're videos are very well done you definitely deserve more viewers.
Oh man that fir fatwood looks like bacon, i have tons of yellow and red pine fatwood over here in nola but i always loved the fir the most , how the yellow pitch blends in to the resin. I like yalls video, the positive vibe it gives, keep it burning brothers.
So true you do feel like you’ve struck gold every time I went out for the first time and found some then every time I would come home off the road I wanted to go to the woods I was hooked I even walk my dog in rest area woods looking for down pine trees😂
My sons would love to see you primitive fishing with primitive bows, and a video of you using the primitive fishing pole like the one with the Hawthorne hook. They are 8 and 5 and love and learn so much from your channel.
Great suggestions! Good to hear that your boys are enjoying the videos. One of our main goals was to present the information in a way that would be interesting for kids. Tell them thanks for watching!
Great video guys! Happy to find your channel, finding people sharing knowledge of the PNW is awesome, I live at the foothills of the west side of the Oregon central coast.
Fantastic! Thanks for joining our journey. We were just talking about potentially doing some projects out towards your area. If you have some favorite wilderness areas out there you can recommend let us know!
Good video. I’m still working on learning to identify it, I haven’t had a ton of opportunity to go practice. That being said I think bringing a small axe or saw with you might have been more efficient than chopping with a knife, and using a stone to baton with your knife kinda hurt to watch lol.
No problem. This is from the Cold Steel line of knives and it's name is Trail master. It's San Mai steel. I think it is an excellent knife, maybe the best, and does alot of hard work quickly. It has a 9 and a half inch blade. Most of the weight is in the very sharp blade and it doubles as an ax. Even when I want to pack light I can't bear to leave it. Holds an edge well. I love the grippy handle. Good flat top of blade for maul and wedge type work. I think it's the perfect larger size knife, that can also be used for smaller type work.
I struggling with the stump method, maybe you can give me an advice. Trying to harvest fatwood from what I believe is an Aleppo pine and all I could find is from low dead branches. But as you mentioned, that's in low quantity. When I find rotten stumps, they are usually rotten and dry full of ants, not containing any resin, or small quantities around the knots. All other turns to dust..
Ok that makes sense. The real trick is to look for the stumps that have spires sticking up still. We call them “Fatwood flags”. Not every stump (as you indicated) will have these and we typically just pass over the stumps that don’t. But when you do see one that has these spires they are usually full of resin which is why they are still standing. Each stump in our video had the spires sticking up which signaled to us that they most likely had Fatwood. Take your knife and chop into the base of one of those spires. If it gives you a nice solid “thunk” you most likely hit Fatwood. From there we usually dig down as low as possible with our knife and start chopping. Again not all stumps will have it, but the ones with solid spires sticking up nearly always do. Also sometimes the tops of those spires have rotted, but if you follow them down into the dirt (even below the top surface level) they often lead to the buried treasure.
@@wildernessstrong6131 that's true, non of those I had tested haven't had spires sticking up. This is a bit different environment, mostly dry climate and salty from the sea (northern Mediterranean) and a lot of those trees fall down because of the strong wind or erosion and maybe don't have enough time to settle the resin in their stumps. Like I mentioned, I did find it in dead low branches, enough to make sticks in adequate size to scrape fatwood shavings for tinder, but not nearly enough for torches of course. Maybe better luck inside in a more continental area on some fir trees (not much pine in-continent).. Thanks for the help mate!
This is one of the best methods to make a torch I have ever seen! Great video. Thanks for the knowledge!!
Hey thanks Scott! Really appreciate you watching and leaving a comment. Hope to hear from you again down the road.
I’ve never had much success finding fatwood in stumps, but I guess I need to keep trying!
Great video!
All of those torches lighting up the forest brings up thoughts of our primevil history!
Where i live in Maryland fat wood is hard to find and is in small quantities. I always keep my eyes out for it testing parts of stumps or lower limbs on walks with the dog. It wasn't until this year that i found a pencils worth. It seems much easier to find some dried sap on the bark of the trees and rub it into a stick or make a ball of cat tails and sap. You're videos are very well done you definitely deserve more viewers.
Awesome job!! Thanks a lot guys! Cheers from north of the border 👍
Oh man that fir fatwood looks like bacon, i have tons of yellow and red pine fatwood over here in nola but i always loved the fir the most , how the yellow pitch blends in to the resin. I like yalls video, the positive vibe it gives, keep it burning brothers.
So true you do feel like you’ve struck gold every time I went out for the first time and found some then every time I would come home off the road I wanted to go to the woods I was hooked I even walk my dog in rest area woods looking for down pine trees😂
Nice! Ya finding it might be more fun than burning it. 😀 thanks for watching!
@@wildernessstrong6131 🤣truth keep the good stuff coming when we get out of our truck we will be living off the land so excited and thx!!
My sons would love to see you primitive fishing with primitive bows, and a video of you using the primitive fishing pole like the one with the Hawthorne hook. They are 8 and 5 and love and learn so much from your channel.
Great suggestions! Good to hear that your boys are enjoying the videos. One of our main goals was to present the information in a way that would be interesting for kids. Tell them thanks for watching!
A small torch works well for starting rocket stoves.
Great watch
Great video work and narration! Your channel will be huge if you keep it up at this quality. Subscribed! 👍🏼
Thanks for watching and commenting! Much appreciated. 🙏
Hi, try using pine cones from pine trees with fatwood around it thanks
Sounds like a fun project for next time we’re in a pine forest. Thanks.
Great video guys! Happy to find your channel, finding people sharing knowledge of the PNW is awesome, I live at the foothills of the west side of the Oregon central coast.
Fantastic! Thanks for joining our journey. We were just talking about potentially doing some projects out towards your area. If you have some favorite wilderness areas out there you can recommend let us know!
Good video. I’m still working on learning to identify it, I haven’t had a ton of opportunity to go practice. That being said I think bringing a small axe or saw with you might have been more efficient than chopping with a knife, and using a stone to baton with your knife kinda hurt to watch lol.
This was great!! Thanks for sharing this
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching.
OK. I need you to tell me everything there is to know about that knife. Thanks for the fatwood info.
No problem. This is from the Cold Steel line of knives and it's name is Trail master. It's San Mai steel. I think it is an excellent knife, maybe the best, and does alot of hard work quickly. It has a 9 and a half inch blade. Most of the weight is in the very sharp blade and it doubles as an ax. Even when I want to pack light I can't bear to leave it. Holds an edge well. I love the grippy handle. Good flat top of blade for maul and wedge type work. I think it's the perfect larger size knife, that can also be used for smaller type work.
I struggling with the stump method, maybe you can give me an advice. Trying to harvest fatwood from what I believe is an Aleppo pine and all I could find is from low dead branches. But as you mentioned, that's in low quantity. When I find rotten stumps, they are usually rotten and dry full of ants, not containing any resin, or small quantities around the knots. All other turns to dust..
Ok that makes sense. The real trick is to look for the stumps that have spires sticking up still. We call them “Fatwood flags”. Not every stump (as you indicated) will have these and we typically just pass over the stumps that don’t. But when you do see one that has these spires they are usually full of resin which is why they are still standing. Each stump in our video had the spires sticking up which signaled to us that they most likely had Fatwood.
Take your knife and chop into the base of one of those spires. If it gives you a nice solid “thunk” you most likely hit Fatwood. From there we usually dig down as low as possible with our knife and start chopping.
Again not all stumps will have it, but the ones with solid spires sticking up nearly always do. Also sometimes the tops of those spires have rotted, but if you follow them down into the dirt (even below the top surface level) they often lead to the buried treasure.
@@wildernessstrong6131 that's true, non of those I had tested haven't had spires sticking up.
This is a bit different environment, mostly dry climate and salty from the sea (northern Mediterranean) and a lot of those trees fall down because of the strong wind or erosion and maybe don't have enough time to settle the resin in their stumps.
Like I mentioned, I did find it in dead low branches, enough to make sticks in adequate size to scrape fatwood shavings for tinder, but not nearly enough for torches of course.
Maybe better luck inside in a more continental area on some fir trees (not much pine in-continent)..
Thanks for the help mate!
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what is your record time
We burned a torch we called “Megatorch” that lasted 2 hours! You should check that video out on our channel if you haven’t already.
Look at all that wasted Fatwood. Get a saw!
What the frick is a spire?
A pointy roof on a church
Good old Cold Steel Trailmaster...sure was hard to beat for the price. Used mine for decades
For sure…it’s definitely been a game changing tool for us.