Fatwood?

[Whittler Kev]

Quick heads up, just went in Poundland and they have bags of easy light kindling. It say it's from Norwich and you just light a corner of a piece to light the fire .....sounds like Fatwood. Just tried some and it melts some sort of resin and then catches quite easily
Very little pine around here unfortunately so can't gather it naturally

 

[Goatboy]

Is this the one?

 

[Whittler Kev]

No it's called "Firepower instant light kindling". It's a lot more yellowish like fatwood which is why I got it. It came from the Bretton, Peterborough one. Wisbech never had it in on Monday? Apparently new ranges of stuff coming out on Sunday so they said

 

[Goatboy]

Ah OK, that was the only one showing on their website.

Sent via smoke-signal from a woodland in Scotland.

 

[9InchNinja]

Went into the Bretton one today and someone's had away with the lot! So came out with 5 other things I didn't want, and some tictacs.

 

[DurhamBushcrafter]

if it is fatwood it will be on ebay at £2.99 for 3 or 4 sticks by now........

 

[Coldfeet]

if it is fatwood it will be on ebay at £2.99 for 3 or 4 sticks by now........

Hahahahaha

 

[Ed the Ted]

if it is fatwood it will be on ebay at £2.99 for 3 or 4 sticks by now........

I've got a box full of the stuff in my living room... I'm rich!

 

[Big Stu 12]

We have a forest full of it at Rendlesham....

Fat woods easy to tell... smell, feel, look... some time even weight, and sound when taped

Every tried just soaking soft wood in Veg Oil.... works just as well..

 

[Goatboy]

Before we called it fatwood up here we knew it as greasy-roots. Working in forestry we'd collect all the star shaped remenants of rotted pine roots. Some got ploughed up others we'd dig/pull out of the ground. Had to watch how you usex them on the fire at home though as they could easily melt the grate in the hearth. But boy did they get the fire going quick on a cold day.
You can also knock the little hard branch nubs out of rotted pine logs, they too have resin impregnated into them. Ray Mears talked about them in one of his programs and how the Native Americans used to leave a pile at known fire sites along the trail for future use. Which was a nice practice, same as the Norwegians leaving matches protruding from the box in the mountain huts so folk with frozen fingers can get a fire going.

Sent via smoke-signal from a woodland in Scotland.

 

[User3326]

Another source of fat wood is the remnants of broken branches at the bottom of living pine tree's. When the branch snapped the tree pumped loads of pitch to seal it off. If you get a saw and cut the remaining bit of branch off, say 3/4 inch from the truck, it will be solid pine pith. You usually get around 2-3 inches of good fatwood. Doesn't harm the tree as its already sealed off.

ATB

 

[Whittler Kev]

Problem is at March we have very few pines???? Just not something here abouts...hang on .....no trees hardly here abouts dagnabit

 

[User3326]

No tree's........ A bushcrafter with no tree's....... Like a whittler with no knife
Ok, You can ignore that then. Might be of use to you, or someone else doing a search, at a later date.

 

[Whittler Kev]

No tree's........ A bushcrafter with no tree's....... Like a whittler with no knife
Ok, You can ignore that then. Might be of use to you, or someone else doing a search, at a later date.

....like a whittler (Kev) with no knife

Cambridgeshire is the most deforested county in the UK unfortunately

 

[woodpoet]

Hi went and bought a bag. not fatwood but it does light with a lighter quite quickly. has some sort of oil drips out as it burns. tried to scrape shavings off it and use a spark but didn't light for me like fatwood does.

 

[DurhamBushcrafter]

Before we called it fatwood up here we knew it as greasy-roots. .

I just went over to my Mrs and said.." Goatboy says you got fatwood in your hair!"........ WHAT? she replied....so i showed her...she then read your post and i got me a

I think i may be sleeping on the sofa with the Dog tonight....

 

[Goatboy]

I just went over to my Mrs and said.." Goatboy says you got fatwood in your hair!"........ WHAT? she replied....so i showed her...she then read your post and i got me a

I think i may be sleeping on the sofa with the Dog tonight....

Don't drag me into marital disputes. I get into enough.trouble on my own. Though that's maybe why I.prefered the couch with the.dog.in one relationship I.was in.
I'm sure I've heard it called candlewood in your part of the country, am I imagining that or do you?

Sent via smoke-signal from a woodland in Scotland.

 

[Joonsy]

lots of fatwood here (in the woods), this shows what happens when a pine tree is damaged, see the resin oozing out of the wood

the orange part in centre of pic beow is the fatwood, super flammable

 

[Ed the Ted]

Just dug up an old root I accidentally buried a few weeks ago and chopped it up, ~10 kg of fatwood is now sitting in a large box in my living room