Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[hunt4570]

I use Cedar for fire starting... a lot easier to come by around here.

Yes all this kind of stuff seems regional, I've used birch bark, cedar and now this fatwood. Never dealt with it other than I bought some from LL Bean years ago, this is good stuff and plentiful around here with all the pines.

 

[hunt4570]

I thought I was at least semi savvy in the woods but I guess not. Had to look up what fat wood was. found this neat little video. Pretty amazing stuff. I always depended on birch bark for a fire starter. I looked at those pictures and thought maybe they call it fat wood because it looks like bacon - Duh.

Fatwood for Beginners - YouTube

gg

Nice little video, thanks.

 

[two_bit_score]

BONUS!! FATWOOD!!

One of my old stumps

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Nice! In East Texas it’s called “lighter pine”. It will definitely light up.

 

[Oldpath05]

Nice little video, thanks.

Yes and according to that camper, theres nothing like SC fatwood, you win again pool man......

 

[Oldpath05]

Nice! In East Texas it’s called “lighter pine”. It will definitely light up.

Here I call that Deadwood and or a blade duller, also known as dead mans hand if you play poker..............

 

[Oldpath05]

BONUS!! FATWOOD!!

One of my old stumps
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That looks like a ole piece of red oak that was lying on the ground for 20 years.....

 

[Oldpath05]

I thought I was at least semi savvy in the woods but I guess not. Had to look up what fat wood was. found this neat little video. Pretty amazing stuff. I always depended on birch bark for a fire starter. I looked at those pictures and thought maybe they call it fat wood because it looks like bacon - Duh.

Fatwood for Beginners - YouTube

gg

Now I know what fatwood is, good video:thumbsup:

 

[Oldpath05]

Time for a commercial break, after 2 month up on jacks my son brings his Jeep out of dry-dock and I get some garage space back. Nice to being young and single so one can spend 7k on Jeep suspension and running gear, next year he's thinking on a diesel motor.
24 Jeep lift.... - YouTube

 

[Loaderman22]

I use Cedar for fire starting... a lot easier to come by around here.

I usually take the 4 wheeler and a trailer out to those piles of tree tops left after harvesting a tree, and collect the small stuff. It's very dry by that point and burns hot. Birch bark works great too, but I don't cut a lot of them, so rarely do I have much. Really any dry bark around here will work. I also clean up the piles from under the splitter, it's bits of bark and small slivers, that stuff burns great too.

 

[Loaderman22]

Did some splitting yesterday, I got the last of the logs from my buddies house.( Trees dropped to make way for new septic system, & he doesn't burn wood). It was mostly white oak, but this last load was mixed, some pieces were super stringy, I'm guessing elm. I started with some black birch from some clean up around here, it smelled great.



Then got into the elm right out of the truck to the splitter.