Hot dang must be, you keep up with your "duns"

Spent the weekend looking for it and Grouse. Never heard it called Fat Wood before, but I like the new name I will be using !

Used fat wood every winter night to start a fire in a tin wood heater. We also had a wood fired hot water heater when I was very young.

Lighter pine. Picked up many a wagon load clearing fields for crops.

called fat lighter or lighter knots here and are from pine

I believe it's what we call rich pine. Used to hunt in goegia and find it in old clear cuts as stumps. I still have a small box left for starting fires. I had a bunch and come to find out the wife was using a hand ful of it in stead of kindlin to start fires in the stove.

Rich pine here as well

Fat wood,lighter pine,what ever it is called I love it. Just aquired parts of a pine tree ~2 feet in diameter looks to be almost all FAT.Yeah lucky me.

Fat wood,lighter pine,what ever it is called I love it. Just aquired parts of a pine tree ~2 feet in diameter looks to be almost all FAT.Yeah lucky me.

Here it's called "rich pine" or "pine knot"

The richest finds I've had were in trees that died slowly. Blown over such that less than 1/3 of its roots were still in the ground. Fire kills. Etc. Red and White pines always have some FW, no matter how they died. Quick way to find FW is walking around in a pine forest smacking dead branches with a stout stick. If the branch breaks, not FW. If it bounces, may be worth gathering. Saws and axes work best.

On sale FW goes for $1/lb in stores around here. Making our own fatwood by intentionally damaging trees takes years. Some heat wood, then submerge it in hot melted resin or wax. The prolonged heat allows it to soak in. Cook up some wood soup, effectively. So common hereabouts that there's no need, but that might help those having trouble finding it.

pine stumps from the plains,left from the pine cutting over 100 yrs ago.burns nice and smells pine pitch also old telephone poles make great kindling.

Really get's a fire jumping!

Called fat lightard where I gres up. Usually harvested from loblolly pine stumps. Above and below ground level.

It's called lighter knot here in the south. A good chunk lasts a long time. Sarge

I have a few large chunks laying around. In SC it generally comes from the long leaf or loblolly pine. They grow slowly and, strangely, are extremely fire resistant. Stumps will last many years.