fishleclair
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Not sure if this is the right spot or not but does anyone carry fat wood in their kits? I was able to find a chunk of white pine that had so much resin in the wood. Burns great with little flame put to it.
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Fat Wood
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Nessmuck56
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Iam a charred punkwood snob now. I graduated from char cloth last Summah. But will look out for some fat wood.
jbwilliams3
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Yes, I have half a dozen fat wood stumps laying around in the woods nearby. Just one of them is years and years worth. I use little pieces in the woodstove at home and in my tinder box.
It's hard to go back to char cloth once your discover punkwood.
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Yep, we have some pine trees in our back yard. I harvested a five gallon bucket full last winter- gave it away to friends who'd never heard of it.
Modern day trekers sometimes tout the use of Vaseline rubbed into cotton balls. It does work well, however for a more primitive version I discovered that pine pitch and poplar cotton or cattail fluff does nearly as well. In about a month the poplar cotton will be everywhere.
Like that Gransfors. I have a slightly larger one.
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Carry a small bundle in the bottom of my snapsac for emergency situations comes in handy especially if all the natural tinder is soaked when I am out. Also char cloth ,punk wood, and charred bits from the previous fire.
I get mine at Walmart..... not the SuperCenter, the Historically Correct small one..
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Weird. One time I tried to ignite a spoonful. Match didn't work. Zippo didn't work. Butane torch didn't work. I'll need to try again.
Yes, try again. It should light easily and burn for quite a long time.
You may need the cotton for a wick... I’ve never tried lighting straight Vaseline....
But the cotton balls do work.
But the cotton balls do work.
The proper 18th century equivalent to that would be linen or tow dipped in beeswax. Guaranteed to work.
I always carry some fatwood with me. IIRC, in the novel Edward Warren by Sir William Drummond Stewart he refers to someone lighting thin shavings of fatwood with a flint and steel. If you're not familiar with him Stewart spent a lot of time in the west during the fur trade and attended rendezvous. His novel captures many of his experiences. I have tried lighting thin shavings of fatwood with a flint and steel but have never succeeded.
Here's some rich fatwood a friend gave me a few years ago.
Here's some rich fatwood a friend gave me a few years ago.
I use char cloth too catch a spark , place it into a tinder bundle. Then the fat fat is used to get a quick flame going.
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https://www.ramblinjim.com/articles/using-vaseline-cotton-balls-as-a-fire-starter
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here in SC we call it fat lightered wood. my brother has a sawmill, his theory is all pine turns to lightered wood after it is old. the old mill houses 100 years old or so around here are mostly fat lightered,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
