How many of you outdoor guys know what fat wood is?

If you was raised around old people you should. You want a disprition or you want too see who knows!
Colt

Wife's granddad 85 said his dad made um cut and split all the standing dead pine he could find, said it took forever to split all that heartwood into kindlin.
Colt
Ps y'all ever "graveled" taters!

lighter

My first job out of school was buying fat wood for Hercules. That was a while ago.

Light my fire...

I prefer birch bark

Newts got It.

I wish we had birch trees around here.

I've never found any fat wood in the wild yet. Not much pine or cedar around here, either.

I'm from Maine, what do you think lol?

racerboy108, birch bark is good tinder but fatwood is good tinder and kindling.

It was called pitch wood when I was a kid. I have a chunk in most every pack and coat pocket I have.

When I found It In SC It was just the old stump. Don't know If standing timber Is considered fat wood.

Beav I think technically you are right but I just find an old rotted tree and kick all the rot off. Any hard petrified like pieces in the center and all the knots I consider fat wood. They all burn great but put off a lot of smoke. You could set them in the water for a day pull them out and light them on fire.

We call it pitchwood hear and it's all cedar in my area gotta go little south east or west to get pine.we always considered it pitchwood if it naturaly rotted away the white wood and left only the heart either standing or down I don't know what the technical standards are.
Colt

So far I've found fatwood in Jack, Red, Scotch and White pines. Colorado Blue and White Spruce. Eastern Redcedar and Paper birch.

As to submerging fatwood in water, I have soaked fatwood, Paper birch bark and a ferrocerium rod in a bucket of water for two weeks. Took them out, shook 'em off, scratched and had flames in seconds. Pretty good stuff!

Interesting, never found it in birch before. I'll have to look more. We have so much pine it's real easy to pull a few knots so i don't look around at much else when it's wet out.

Redsleeves graveling for taters must be a KY thing. Did it with my Grandmother to get new taters growing up in east KY.

I have a hand held electric planer I like to run a bunch of fine chips with it from fat wood. It catches a spark as good as anything and if you press some together and light it of the initial bit that got the spark, it burns quite a while to start the thicker stuff like pine cones. The rest is easy. I also like the paraffin smell it has.

we called it pitch pine. can light a piece big as your leg with a match

Don't know about birch But It's the turpentine In the pine trees that create lighter or fat wood.