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
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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