After watching this video I went outside to a 4 year old pine tree stump in my yard and found beautiful fatwood that I never knew was there. Thank you so much for another good video!
Having grown up in rural Mississippi it took me forever to understand that what people were calling fat wood was what I grew up calling lighter knot. Great video!
I am a 67 yr old newbie at finding fat wood. But because i watched this video 3 days ago i found a dead stump today with part of it not being decomposed yet. I started working on it and got about 15 pounds of fat wood out of it. There is a lot more in the most solid piece of the root but it will take a lot of effort to get it out. I may leave it there. I want to thank you very much for this video. Want to add that i have walked within 5 ft of that stump at least 8000 times in the last 12 years. Thanks again Joshua !!!!! I have been watching several survival videos in the last couple of months and you are one of the best. You do a good job of explaining the topic you are teaching, even for a newbie like me !!!!
You know, I've always looked for fatwood in the bases of branches laying on the ground like the one you found there, but I've never thought to look at rotted out stumps. That one stump probably had all the fatwood I'd need for the rest of my life! Great info again! Thanks!
Thank you! I pretty much mirrored your process here and pulled a 40lb chunk of fatwood like this out. It was loose with a kick just like your video. So easy and fire starter for life. I’m going to start harvesting big pieces and giving them as gifts
Hey buddy. You are no BS informative, and easy to listen to. I'm always looking for one more thing to do in the outdoors that I haven't yet done in my 70 years. Going fatwood huntin' this week. Ciao.
I like your style and manner sir, easy going... Nice little video, relaxed but informative. Loving the dog running round enjoying it's self. look forward to more. Best regards from UK, have subbed.....
Awesome Video Joshua,,, By the sandy soil,,, almost looks like NC area,,, I’ve been enjoying the Appalachian mountains for 40+ years,, I really enjoy your videos and always get something useful from You,,,!!!! I’ve been driving Tractor trailer’s for about 25 years., in and through the Appalachian mountains,,Va, Wva. , Nc. When I can’t get out myself,, it makes me relax to at least see Y’all in the woods,,,, Joshua
You are my go to on camping, prepping and survival techniques. I get to take advantage of the hundreds of thousands of dollars the U.S. Army used to train you. Thanks for passing it along to us non-special forces greenhorns. If you're somewhere without pine trees (or other trees that contain turpines or other volatile organic compounds,) you might need to pack some fat wood, cotton balls infused with petroleum jelly, or dry woods shavings. It's that, or gather whatever dry fire starter material is handy (dry, dead leaves, bark etc.,. Look around the base of tree trunks in wet weather. It's generally drier in that area.
We have that stuff lot in Finland and finding it it’s one of the most important skills. It works in every weather and saves lot of time when starting a fire. You just need to remember to take only what you need so that other people can use it too.
Mikko Kettunen That’s a great reminder...take only what you need, and express gratitude! I learned that as a Native American belief, but I see that wisdom is in Finland too!
Thanks a lot sir. I needed to hear this to understand what to look for. Best feeling in life is when a concept that was giving you trouble suddenly clicks into place. Many thanks.
I live in northern Ontario..I'm lucky enough to have almost everything in arms reach...birch bark ,pine resins, fat wood. almost anything you could ever need to light a fire...which is a good thing...cause with 6 months of snow and cold...its pretty handy..
Best video I've found on the topic to date. Others showed where to find it, but never explained the reasons why it forms there, which definitely helps. Subscribed!
Greetings. Give that doggo a kiss and and a scratch behind the ears for me. Thanks for all the great vids and knowledge you have passed along. As a former Vietnam SeaBee i wanted to thank you for your service and sacrifices for family and country. God bless. The docs tell me ill be leaving this world for another soon and since i have no other to thank you i had to resort to this way
Thanks for this video. I’m just getting into bushcraft and have been learning a lot from you & all of the other Pathfinder instructors videos. I watched another video video you did on finding fat wood last night & then spent today on our timbering property. I found lots of fat wood thanks to that video. This video will help me find more tomorrow.
Great video. I use to search for lightered knots in FL as a kid. What a gold mine for starting fires. They were fairly abundant in central FL back then. Brings back old memories. Thanks for sharing and reminding some of us the value of that old wood. It taste nasty, though.
My daughter and I went out looking for fatwood here in B.C. Canada. Didn't take long for us because of all the pine in our area and past fires. Never thought about old stumps though. Thank you
This video reminds me of the times I used to hike in the Croatan National Forest with my Lab when I lived at Camp Lejeune. I loved hunting for fatwood. Just an additional hint: when the State does its controlled burning is a great time to look for those burned out stumps identified at the end of this video. Unlimited fatwood. Great video!!
I know that area extremely well myself, albeit in a different manner. I had a lot of range time out in that general area. Numerous ranges and landing in various LZ's. I recognized the sandy soil composition and knew it had to be an my former A.O. The thing that made your video cool is that you used the KISS system and explained things in a way that will hopefully keep folks from killing live trees seeking that pine gold.
Thanks brother! Yeah, my day job is on Camp Lejuene so I know exactly what and where you mean. I appreciate the feedback. It just doesn't make sense to me to go after a live tree for this.
what i did not know. I now know a little more about. I wont know for sure until i get in the woods and actually take apart a stump. (ive never used or even handled fatwood before) very educational, Thank you sir.
Excellent, again. Learning so much on the woodscraft side of your instruction. I'm considering a course with the Pathfinder school just on what I've seen of both you and DC and the way you work. Good drills and skills oh Beardy Grayness 😉
Also finding rich lighted pine was a big deal when I was a kid. Thank you for your videos. Your videos are alot more realistic than the tacticool garbage that's on youtube.
Very good video. One of the very few that shows how to collect liter wood. The part of the tree that's on the ground may have heart wood loaded with resin (fatwood ).
I live in South Mississippi. In my pack, I carry a large prescription medication bottle full of lighter-splinters to start fires with. I have several packs that all are packed with basically the same things however, depends on what activity I am doing as to which pack I take. But they all have pill-bottles filled with lighter-kindling.
The compact little swirly 'knots' were always called 'rose cones' by the Crackers down in Flawda...and they are about 100 rockwell, lol! I've seen sparks fly chopping liter'd'knots...people guarded their liter'd'knot piles...some Seminoles believe there is a special spiritual essence to the stuff, and it's no wonder really...FIRE!
Looks like a dry area. Amazing the difference between fatwood from dry areas and damp areas. I bet you get more lightning strike fatwood too. Thanks for the video and info
i knew about using downed trees and stumps, but not in the way to show here, now i'll have a more ideas on how to use the stumps; thanks. note: it looks like your down in Florida, which from all i've read would be a better survival type place because of the warmer climate like other south states.
Great video! I have found fatwood before, in my favorite forest. But last time I went I didn't find so much easily visible as I had before. Thanks so much for your very informative style Joshua. Now I know how to look for it even when it's not so easily visible. Understanding how it's formed is so valuable. I love seeing your dog in this video too! The doggy kisses at the end are precious! Now I'm going to search your videos to see if you have one on punk wood, and charring it. :)
Your video really helped explain what fat-wood is & where to obtain it which term I didn’t know. However, I live in Rocky Mtns. Here one can go miles & miles without seeing water depending on where one is. I looked up if the west had any tree that had fat-wood. Three are good sources all in the pine genre: Ponderosa is everywhere & needles are highly flammable, as are Lodgepole & Pinon with their great pine nuts. How are pine cones as tinder?
My wife is now interested in bushcrafting. We went to the lake yesterday and she spotted a downed pine tree. I got my tomahawk out and showed her how to harvest and process fatwood (thanks to this video) and now next week she wants me to show her different fire building methods.
@@GrayBeardedGreenBeret Absolutely! I even had her watching your videos with me earlier lol. I just finished making a couple super matches and she's talking about camping trips.
After watching this video I went outside to a 4 year old pine tree stump in my yard and found beautiful fatwood that I never knew was there. Thank you so much for another good video!
Having grown up in rural Mississippi it took me forever to understand that what people were calling fat wood was what I grew up calling lighter knot. Great video!
In Germany its called Kienspan, what literally means "splinter of the pine" in old German language.
In modern language the pine is called Fichte.
Here in middle Georgia I’ve known it as ‘Fat Lighter’.
We called it lighter knot in North Carolina. I live in Maryland now and never heard anyone call it anything here.
Lots of people talk about how to find fatwood, but your method is the most unique and seems to be the most reliable. Thank you.
We called it “lighter knot” in North Carolina. I was glad to hear you say it!
explaining how it forms was a lightbulb moment for me. thank you all makes sense now.
i have a 3 yr old malinois/german/dutch shepherd. i love your videos but seeing your pup makes me like you even more. thanks for the videos.
I am a 67 yr old newbie at finding fat wood. But because i watched this video 3 days ago i found a dead stump today with part of it not being decomposed yet. I started working on it and got about 15 pounds of fat wood out of it. There is a lot more in the most solid piece of the root but it will take a lot of effort to get it out. I may leave it there. I want to thank you very much for this video. Want to add that i have walked within 5 ft of that stump at least 8000 times in the last 12 years. Thanks again Joshua !!!!! I have been watching several survival videos in the last couple of months and you are one of the best. You do a good job of explaining the topic you are teaching, even for a newbie like me !!!!
I couldn't hear this video. I still watched it! Thank you for the information.
I'm glad that I found this channel.
You know, I've always looked for fatwood in the bases of branches laying on the ground like the one you found there, but I've never thought to look at rotted out stumps. That one stump probably had all the fatwood I'd need for the rest of my life! Great info again! Thanks!
Thank you! I pretty much mirrored your process here and pulled a 40lb chunk of fatwood like this out. It was loose with a kick just like your video. So easy and fire starter for life. I’m going to start harvesting big pieces and giving them as gifts
Hey buddy. You are no BS informative, and easy to listen to. I'm always looking for one more thing to do in the outdoors that I haven't yet done in my 70 years. Going fatwood huntin' this week. Ciao.
☑️ FINALLY, someone used the term I always heard as a kid growing up in eastern Piedmont region of NC, which was "lighter knot"! 🙂
I like your style and manner sir, easy going... Nice little video, relaxed but informative.
Loving the dog running round enjoying it's self.
look forward to more. Best regards from UK, have subbed.....
Thanks, bushcraftjunkie! I appreciate the sub. Hope you enjoy the others as well.
As a beginner, this is the perfect video, thank you!
This was great - exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!
Awesome Video Joshua,,,
By the sandy soil,,, almost looks like NC area,,, I’ve been enjoying the Appalachian mountains for 40+ years,, I really enjoy your videos and always get something useful from You,,,!!!! I’ve been driving Tractor trailer’s for about 25 years., in and through the Appalachian mountains,,Va, Wva. , Nc. When I can’t get out myself,, it makes me relax to at least see Y’all in the woods,,,, Joshua
Great demonstration of "Fat Lighter" 101....!!!
Lots of her trees get hit by lightning and it really draws the rich resin out Great info my friend
Thanks! That makes sense that the lightning would do that, once that tree dies gravity takes over, great point. Glad you enjoyed it.
Incredible! I never would have thought of any of these techniques.
Love the celebratory kiss st the end. My shepherd is a big kisser too ! Thanks for sharing
You are my go to on camping, prepping and survival techniques. I get to take advantage of the hundreds of thousands of dollars the U.S. Army used to train you. Thanks for passing it along to us non-special forces greenhorns. If you're somewhere without pine trees (or other trees that contain turpines or other volatile organic compounds,) you might need to pack some fat wood, cotton balls infused with petroleum jelly, or dry woods shavings. It's that, or gather whatever dry fire starter material is handy (dry, dead leaves, bark etc.,. Look around the base of tree trunks in wet weather. It's
generally drier in that area.
We have that stuff lot in Finland and finding it it’s one of the most important skills. It works in every weather and saves lot of time when starting a fire. You just need to remember to take only what you need so that other people can use it too.
Mikko Kettunen That’s a great reminder...take only what you need, and express gratitude! I learned that as a Native American belief, but I see that wisdom is in Finland too!
Great video. Especially having that beautiful Malinois as your co-star.
Thanks a lot sir. I needed to hear this to understand what to look for. Best feeling in life is when a concept that was giving you trouble suddenly clicks into place. Many thanks.
I live in Alabama, my grandpa called it rich lighted pine. Thanks for your service by the way
Man I’m learning something new with every video you put out Josh. Thanks man for all you do. RLTW.
Thanks to you I found fatwood my second time out!
I live in northern Ontario..I'm lucky enough to have almost everything in arms reach...birch bark ,pine resins, fat wood. almost anything you could ever need to light a fire...which is a good thing...cause with 6 months of snow and cold...its pretty handy..
Used the technique described and found fatwood for the first time from a conifer stump today. Thank you for sharing the knowledge!
Best video I've found on the topic to date. Others showed where to find it, but never explained the reasons why it forms there, which definitely helps. Subscribed!
Greetings. Give that doggo a kiss and and a scratch behind the ears for me. Thanks for all the great vids and knowledge you have passed along. As a former Vietnam SeaBee i wanted to thank you for your service and sacrifices for family and country. God bless.
The docs tell me ill be leaving this world for another soon and since i have no other to thank you i had to resort to this way
Awesome video! I didn't even know what fatwood was until I saw your video. Thanks for all your work. I'm learning something new every day.
Wow!! I’m so glad I found you n your videos! You are the man! I e gotta get your book n can’t wait to dig into it!
Awwww, cute pup❤🐾❤
Great video! Thanks
Thanks for this video. I’m just getting into bushcraft and have been learning a lot from you & all of the other Pathfinder instructors videos.
I watched another video video you did on finding fat wood last night & then spent today on our timbering property. I found lots of fat wood thanks to that video.
This video will help me find more tomorrow.
I dig this. It's plentiful, easy to find, and FREE!! Great tutorial, sir. Thank you!
Great video. I use to search for lightered knots in FL as a kid. What a gold mine for starting fires. They were fairly abundant in central FL back then. Brings back old memories. Thanks for sharing and reminding some of us the value of that old wood. It taste nasty, though.
My daughter and I went out looking for fatwood here in B.C. Canada. Didn't take long for us because of all the pine in our area and past fires. Never thought about old stumps though. Thank you
This video reminds me of the times I used to hike in the Croatan National Forest with my Lab when I lived at Camp Lejeune. I loved hunting for fatwood. Just an additional hint: when the State does its controlled burning is a great time to look for those burned out stumps identified at the end of this video. Unlimited fatwood. Great video!!
I have been known to stomp around that same forest. This was in the Stones Creek Gamelands right outside of Stone Bay.
I know that area extremely well myself, albeit in a different manner. I had a lot of range time out in that general area. Numerous ranges and landing in various LZ's. I recognized the sandy soil composition and knew it had to be an my former A.O. The thing that made your video cool is that you used the KISS system and explained things in a way that will hopefully keep folks from killing live trees seeking that pine gold.
Thanks brother! Yeah, my day job is on Camp Lejuene so I know exactly what and where you mean. I appreciate the feedback. It just doesn't make sense to me to go after a live tree for this.
I'm going to look for fatwood tomorrow! Thanks for the tip!
Let me know how you make out!
Thanks for another great video Gray Beard.
Great Information from a well experienced person. Thank you for the advice on how to find fatwood.
GREAT TIP!!!! THANKS!!! NEXT TIME I'M OUT I WILL LOOK FOR SOME...
what i did not know. I now know a little more about. I wont know for sure until i get in the woods and actually take apart a stump. (ive never used or even handled fatwood before) very educational, Thank you sir.
Great video! thanks for sharing
I was able to find a stump full of fat wood this weekend based on what I saw on this video. Thanks for the great content!
Awesome! Glad to hear it. Now you’ll find it everywhere
Great video showing us that way to find fat wood thank you have a nice day keep up the great work.
Thanks! Glad you liked it! Have a great day, also. Happy hunting.
My left ear really enjoyed this video
Love your videos. I’ve learned a lot from them. Keep up the good work.
Very informative and educational. Thank you very much
Thank you for teaching this!!
excellent video .... great information .. love the german shepherd in the video...
this is actually such a good channel.
Awesome information 😁👍👍👍
In the northwest, we just call it pitch or tree sap for live trees and resin is the crystallized material in deadwood
Love your Shepherd.
That was some good info. E-tool would've come in handy there.
I do like my e-tool. Also have a couple fo Spetsnaz shovels that are awesome as well
Excellent, again. Learning so much on the woodscraft side of your instruction. I'm considering a course with the Pathfinder school just on what I've seen of both you and DC and the way you work. Good drills and skills oh Beardy Grayness 😉
Come out to a Pathfinder Course and its a pretty safe bet Dave and I will both be teaching at it, along with Corporals Corner. Would be a great time
The Gray Bearded Green Beret on the bucket list mate, before I get too damned old lol. Thanks for the reply.
Thanks, this helps a lot
Also finding rich lighted pine was a big deal when I was a kid. Thank you for your videos. Your videos are alot more realistic than the tacticool garbage that's on youtube.
Very good video. One of the very few that shows how to collect liter wood. The part of the tree that's on the ground may have heart wood loaded with resin (fatwood ).
Good stuff. Looks like Ft Bragg, sounds like it too.
I live in South Mississippi. In my pack, I carry a large prescription medication bottle full of lighter-splinters to start fires with. I have several packs that all are packed with basically the same things however, depends on what activity I am doing as to which pack I take. But they all have pill-bottles filled with lighter-kindling.
I also have a huge pile of lighter stumps and knots and limbs that I pick up where ever I go.
Great video!
Great video, It makes me really miss my cattle dog Oz,
Thank you, Josh
The compact little swirly 'knots' were always called 'rose cones' by the Crackers down in Flawda...and they are about 100 rockwell, lol! I've seen sparks fly chopping liter'd'knots...people guarded their liter'd'knot piles...some Seminoles believe there is a special spiritual essence to the stuff, and it's no wonder really...FIRE!
Happy puppy.
Great information, thank you.
Looks like a dry area. Amazing the difference between fatwood from dry areas and damp areas. I bet you get more lightning strike fatwood too. Thanks for the video and info
It’s a pretty hot area but I wouldn’t call it dry. Extremely humid, coastal NC about 5 miles from the ocean
Thank you for this information and Great Video 😎
Excellent video !! 👍👍👍
Wow! I had no idea this fat wood is naturally occurring!
I was shocked to learn Walmart and Amazon sells Fat Wood. ESP when its free in the woods
Home Depot sells Fat Wood too.
Dig the logo, man. Good shit, thanks.
You can't beat some good Carolina fatwood!
Thank You. Great Video
quality content.
Great video Brother! Roll Tide!
Thanks! Glad you liked it!
3:10 somebody is having fun in the background
Great video. Beautiful dog
Beautiful dog
Very good, thank you very much
Great vid brother! Love the background music at around 3:14 ;)
Great video. Subbed. Drive on, brother.
Thank you for the support, brother! Love the flag on your profile pic! 'Murica!
Another place to find lighter kindling from is along a creek or river bed on sandbars.
i knew about using downed trees and stumps, but not in the way to show here, now i'll have a more ideas on how to use the stumps; thanks. note: it looks like your down in Florida, which from all i've read would be a better survival type place because of the warmer climate like other south states.
Coastal NC, not much different at all
Thank you!
Great video! I have found fatwood before, in my favorite forest. But last time I went I didn't find so much easily visible as I had before. Thanks so much for your very informative style Joshua. Now I know how to look for it even when it's not so easily visible. Understanding how it's formed is so valuable. I love seeing your dog in this video too! The doggy kisses at the end are precious! Now I'm going to search your videos to see if you have one on punk wood, and charring it. :)
There is one on that, yes
Great informative video
Thank you! Glad you liked it. Thanks for watching. You have some great Pinterest boards going, by the way.
I love the hunt of finding fatwood, always cool to strike that amber goodness on a trophy piece
I agree! This piece was so big I wanted to have it mounted! Strap it to my hood like a deer and drive it home.
Cornerstone Survival School I totally understand haha. :)
I'm blessed with a lot of dead pines all around where I live
Very nice brother!
Thanks! I appreciate the feedback. What part of the midwest are you in?
West central Illinois. Near Meredosia.
excellent information, gonna go look for fatwood now instead of buying firestarters at walmart
Great video, thanks for sharing. I will be fat wood "shopping" soon. ;)
Awesome! Enjoy the hunt. Hope you find more than you can carry! Let me know how it goes and if any tips from here helped you find it!
Will do.. thanks!
Thank you
Your video really helped explain what fat-wood is & where to obtain it which term I didn’t know. However, I live in Rocky Mtns. Here one can go miles & miles without seeing water depending on where one is. I looked up if the west had any tree that had fat-wood. Three are good sources all in the pine genre: Ponderosa is everywhere & needles are highly flammable, as are Lodgepole & Pinon with their great pine nuts. How are pine cones as tinder?
It's great to see you put up a channel. No comment other than it was a great video. -336
Rothrock Reliance thanks! I appreciate the feedback.
My wife is now interested in bushcrafting. We went to the lake yesterday and she spotted a downed pine tree. I got my tomahawk out and showed her how to harvest and process fatwood (thanks to this video) and now next week she wants me to show her different fire building methods.
Awesome! Glad to hear we got another one out to the woods!
@@GrayBeardedGreenBeret Absolutely! I even had her watching your videos with me earlier lol. I just finished making a couple super matches and she's talking about camping trips.
Fantastic! Does she have a sister?
@@ldtexas1648 3 but they're all very crazy
@@MeAndBas 😒