PHAT fatwood

sweet pickins yesterday in the woods!

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[censored] Bush you're never going to run out of fat wood.

As much as I have been in the backcountry I have never come across fatwood like that. I guess we must have nothing like that here.

I think bushy has made a deal with the fatwood spirit of the forest

I went out looking for fatwood today, and every stump that I found was
all ready punted out. [censored] that pine beetle. All the trees were dead
before they fell, no sap a flowin.....

Good looking haul there Bush!!!

Cheers

Great looking haul. Sell some of it!

For the fat wood experts. We had a massive fire that killed off alot of pine from heat etc. Its still standing and there are alot of burnt out stumps. I haven't been back to the area for roughly 8 years. Think the fire would have ruined it for fat wood or am I passing up fatwood mecca?

Some of the stumps that I found were burn't out as well, and weren't any good,
however, I can't say if the Pine Beetle killed them "before" the fire or not.
The ones that I've found that are beetle kill, don't have the sap flowing into
the stump anymore. Most stumps have gone "punty".

Maybe someone with fire experience will be able to chip in with expertise.
I'm interested in knowing this as well.

Cheers

When are you going into the Fat Wood Business?

I never have any luck with the stuff. Maybe I'm not looking in the right places.

Can you find the fatwood in ceder or just pine?

I already did. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

If you come to the coast it is pretty easy. I gathered about 20 lbs of it within 10 minutes of my house <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />. Start knocking those rotted stumps apart- you will then hit something solid and smelly- that is it <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />

I was looking at a Mors Kockanski(sp) book and he claims burnt trees are good for resinous wood. I'll have to check out a few stumps next time I'm out that
way. I'll report back on what I find. It may be a while though.