Ever since da yoots burned up all my stash of carefully split fat lighter last December, I have missed it for fire starting. Fat lighter or fat wood can be found in old pine stumps and roots. That is the best stuff. But often, just some good heart pine will do the job. When nature takes out one of my pines, unless it is in the way, I just let it lie there and rot. I know that in a year or two, I can easily hack away the rotten outer part and get to some turpentine smelling fat lighter. So out back I went, in search of!
This area looked promising. I knew I had chopped down two dead pines here, one of them with my new DFLE. Not ready yet.
I noticed a pretty high tide. I was getting a nice cool breeze in from the thunderstorms across the river.
Enough of that. Back to my search.
Aha! In the middle of my property an old pine log I had moved off the trail two years ago.
After beating on it with my knife (this one wasn't cleaned up yet and handy), I found the heart pine core.
I can smell that turpentine smell. Good stuff. I carried it over to the chopping area and whacked off some bits.
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I placed them around the old oak and whoosh! More fire!
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What a fun weekend this has been. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />