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Lighter knot

Fat lighter. A knot is a piece of fat lighter where a limb came off the main trunk.

The difference between the birch bark and it’s equivalents mentioned and fat lighter is the lighter will burn for a long time so as to start a fire in even the wettest of conditions.

Once burning it produces it own fuel as the crystallized sap inside begins to flow towards the fire and even spill over dripping flames onto the wood around it.
 
MNFarmHunter said:
You want pointless???

You can use beeswax to stop a bone from bleeding from an amputation, traumatic or otherwise


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would be pointlless unless youre a beekeper and you sliced your finger off while working on hives. Or you broke into a hive, forgot you were deathly allergic to bees and amputated whatever appendage that got stung.
 
We ran into a guy out in Yellowstone once who thought lighter wood was witchcraft. Given that we've farmed pines in Alabama for hundreds of years...it's pretty ubiquitous here.

What's really wild is a cabin my mom's folks had on Lake Martin. Place smelled like turpentine in hot weather and bled pitch. Wood burning stove in the corner and the guy tending it was usually hammered. DIY electrical work everywhere...miracle it never caught.
 
Weldabeast said:
Ahhh...fooled ya. No ropes here

I met a guy from Wisconsin over the weekend at this kids birthday party and we just talking about random stuff...the park was nice and wooded and by the picnic tables there was the stump of an old jumbo pine tree. I'm kicking pieces off as we talking and he is not understanding what's going on. I explain I'm knocking chunks of fat light off to take home....long story short he had never heard of it and his mind was blown. He was an outdoorsman with more experience than me....so I been thinking about that all weekend now... I'm assuming it's a regional thing? U yankee saddle swingers know what this is I'm talking about or was this guy just a retard? Fat light, lighter knot, pine knot, fatwood....gots lots of names
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Theres an old man, Bob, who I have known since age 10, a WW2 vet... he passed away a few years ago. He and my dad own hunting property next to each other up in Northern PA, and they got along great. One day when I was a teen, Bob came by with dozen knotty white pine logs. He called it fatwood. It was dry, light, and a pit punky. Ya could split a one inch piece and light it with a match. That started our fires for a long time, and i saved the last piece as a memoir. Dad used to cut dead branches from the bottom of white pines and use the end that formed the crotch as Firestarter. I was probably only 10 when he showed me how you could peel back a white birch and expose the inner layer that could be used to start a fire even during a rainstorm. I am a wood burner all my years. The stove goes mid November to mid April in my home. I have been working on my supply the last month. I am one pickup truck short of having 2 winters worth split and stacked. Hurricane Sandy hit in 2012 and that's the year that I got myself ahead a full two Winters worth of wood and I have stayed on that pace since then. I cut a hole through the Basement foundation wall and I have a bin in the basement and a wood Chute and I can load it up on Sunday and it will last me the week. It's really great to burn well seasoned wood because I really just don't get much creosote and can burn slowly. I work the stack from left to right one year and right to left the next. As soon as hunting season is over, my firewood repleshment begins. And even though I know how to start a fire... the very best way to do it and have zero smoke from back draft when ya are starting up in a cold cabin woodstove is to always have some split small stuff for the bottom, no paper, and then hit the propane lawn torch. I hold it above the wood in the air for 30 sec which will force warm air up the chimney and get the air flowing the right way, and then another 30 or 60 seconds on the kindling. I sold out, but I will take technology over smoke! Cheers.
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Paper birch is very oily and will light even when wet. It's so ubiquitous in northern MN that I've never had to mess much with resinous pine. I generally try to avoid burning softwoods when I can. Although, I've used pinecones as kindling and been satisfied with the results.
 
woodsdog2 said:
And I’m gonna have to get even more into it as our greenie weenie state is outlawing natural gas heat by 2035! Do not move to NY!!!
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Lol. Most people got the hint not to move there long before that gas ban. NY is having an exodus. Without getting political all i can say is hmm wonder why?
"just jump on a bus and head down to Florida where you belong.” might have something to do with it.

More retard yankees for ya weldabeast.

i always heard it fatwood.
 
I spent too much time on bushcraftusa back in the day to not know about fatwood. Finding some in the woods used to feel like finding my own personal goldmine
 
In another word....cut some hair and wipe it on the oiliest (most oily?) part of your body.....then give it a minute and spark it or light it! It works when you have no fatstick, birch, or fuzz...
 
Samcirrus said:
In another word....cut some hair and wipe it on the oiliest (most oily?) part of your body.....then give it a minute and spark it or light it! It works when you have no fatstick, birch, or fuzz...
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If you're wearing jeans you can use a blade to raise and scrape off a bit of lint from the denim. If it's dry it will take a spark from a ferro or magnesium rod pretty readily.
 
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