loblolly pine fat wood

[Dave Shepard]

Those stave churches are, to me, some of the most impressive examples of architecture I have ever seen.

 

[stig]

Amazing.
A full scale model of the Gol church.

That is really neat, Bob.

 

[Underwor]

there are a lot of Swedes, Norwegians, Icelanders, and Finns up here. They hold a big 4 or 5 day celebration every fall that attracts a lot of people, probably 20 - 30 hectares of motor homes and campers, as well as filling every motel in 100 miles that the oil workers don't have booked up solid. All sorts of displays, sales booths and entertainment. I never have gone yet, but want to some day.

 

[Paul B]

Little bump. I have been looking around and this stuff isnt for sale locally that I can find, anyone in the US of A willing to buy and send me a box? I figure a 1.5 or 2 lb one should last me a fair while. costs and shipping paid via paypal of course.

http://www.fatwood.com/what-is-fatwood/product-and-packaging/339-2/

 

[MasterBlaster]

We call that stuff "Rich Lighter Pine."

 

[Paul B]

Nice, I searched it and the archive of this thread came up in the 4th spot on Google results, thats cool in itself. I have used the stuff before just havent been able to find it for sale anywhere in many years, would like to have some in the camper for when the season gets rolling, it worked real well. There are a few Ebayers that list it but I am not sure if their pricing is fair or not.

 

[top_notch]

Sounds really cool, any pictures of them?

I found some in an old ( planted 1867) Pinus Nigra. I turned a few thin walled goblets from it, they were completely transparent.
Looked great when the sunlight shone through them.

 

[stig]

I have some professionally made studio pictures, but they are from before the digital age, alas.
I'll see if I can figure out how to use my new ( bought last week) scanner/printer!

 

[sotc]

Paul, just take your saw and go up in the hills on an old pine logging site and cut an old stump that still is hard

 

[gf beranek]

The old fir stumps that rotted away would have cores and splinters of fat wood still standing. Burned like a tire. really sooty but easy to start a fire with.

 

[Paul B]

the pine I find here arent anything like the fatwood I bought years ago. Looks like I might have to hit up one of the Ebayers, a few reasonable prices are available.

 

[brendonv]

Paul, I can ship it to you after the holidays if you can't get it.

 

[Paul B]

thanks Bren, I will checkl the Ebayers and see if its workable, if not, I will call ya for the help.

 

[stig]

This is the best I can do, sorry!

 

[rskybiz]

I can supply all anyone can use to tree housers for the cost of postage. You get the fun of splitting as that takes some time. Merry Christmas.
Send me a pm

 

[Reddog]

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This is the best I can do, sorry!

Very nice Stig!

 

[Al Smith]

So then evidently that pine sap gets hard like amber which is just fossilized sap of some sort .

 

[flushcut]

A little bumpski of an old thread thinking it might be a good companion to the wood stove thread.

 

[lxskllr]

I was in the woods Thursday, sitting on a long dead fallen pine, and idly knocking branches off with the butt of my hatchet. The knots in the log smelled very rich. If it were my property, I might take the time to extract a bunch of them for... Really just the hell of it. They smell nice. My method for starting fires doesn't really require special accelerants or anything.

 

[treesmith]

My brother-in-law used to run a crew for Aslundh. They took down a dead pine once that was almost entirely “rich-lighter” (what we call it). I didn’t believe him until I saw the pile he’d brought home. He gave me three ~12” diameter sticks of “firewood” that was fatwood, bark to bark. Never seen a tree like it.

 

[stig]

Now, that would have been fun to put on the lathe.