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some years back, lightning killed one of the pine trees in my back yard. The stump has been an excellent source of fat wood ever since. I cut a few slabs off this morning. These will be split into pencil sized sticks. They are THE best thing for starting a fire place or fire pit. '
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Good stuff. I can smell it from here.
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...Actually Sycamore, you are sort of right....
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I need to go cut some more, with the cold we have it's a perfect time. I have a pile of it and I love the turpentine smell.
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One big difference, yours is black and sticks out of a hole in a bathroom stall.
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One big difference, yours is black and sticks out of a hole in a bathroom stall. That is hilarious
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Love it. We call it fat lighter. Our hunting prop has it all over the place, I'm always grabbing big pieces to bring home and cut up. We let a kid get some once and he cut it up and put it into small gift bags and sold each for 10 bucks a piece.
While it maybe a rumor, I've always heard its iffy to start indoor fires with because of buildup of soot and possible creosote in the chimney.
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Lighter knot… that stump is really rich with rosin.
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Love it. We call it fat lighter. Our hunting prop has it all over the place, I'm always grabbing big pieces to bring home and cut up. We let a kid get some once and he cut it up and put it into small gift bags and sold each for 10 bucks a piece.
While it maybe a rumor, I've always heard its iffy to start indoor fires with because of buildup of soot and possible creosote. There may be something to that if one were to just burn a bunch in the fireplace. I find that one or two pencil sized sticks are enough to get the fire going. I will be gifting local friends with several bags full. A bag is a nice gift to give your host when invited to a back yard fire pit party.
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kindling...my grandfather sales firewood and throws in some starter with every load
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We call that heart pine down here. I piped natural gas to my fireplace to start logs. I welded a piece of 1/2 pipe with holes about every two inches. It’s easy to start a fire, to hell with all that trouble starting a fire, smoking up the house.
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This little chunk has been in my backpack for years and smells like turpentine. Some shavings never fail to start a fire, even with damp kindling.
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Pitch pine, rich pine, kindling, fat pine, fat wood..... It goes by alot of different names, but there is no doubt it is excellent fire starter. I grew up in East Texas. That's "pine" country. Finding pitch pine isn't a problem. Now, I'm in SW Oklahoma! Pine is abnormal rather than normal! So I have to use high dollar "starter cubes"! 😖
As a kid, it was my job to find pine heartwood, cut up and split it into kindling! That was long ago and far away! 😐
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Lighter Stump is what it's called in The Great State of Alabama!
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My neighbor had a tray looking thing made out of cast iron. It looked kinda like a cornbread muffin pan but small squares that had porous rocks in the squares. He poured kerosene in the rocks, put it under grate to start his fireplace. It burned for a while before kerosene was burned up.
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Pitch pine, rich pine, kindling, fat pine, fat wood..... It goes by alot of different names, but there is no doubt it is excellent fire starter. I grew up in East Texas. That's "pine" country. Finding pitch pine isn't a problem. Now, I'm in SW Oklahoma! Pine is abnormal rather than normal! So I have to use high dollar "starter cubes"! 😖
As a kid, it was my job to find pine heartwood, cut up and split it into kindling! That was long ago and far away! 😐 I did a lot of that myself
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hook a chain to that stump and pull it... lots more under the dirt
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This little chunk has been in my backpack for years and smells like turpentine. Some shavings never fail to start a fire, even with damp kindling. Damn dude, do you carry your own rocks to make a fire ring too??
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We used to pick it up when hunting Lots of it was pine knots, not stump wood If we did find a good stump we would come back later with an ax and saw
Some mornings, it just does not feel worth it to chew through the straps!~
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The fire in my stove has been burning continuously since Oct 20th or so. So we don't use much pitchwood. My grandson makes pitch bundles with around 60 "pencils" and sells them, I buy a few and gift them to neighbors around Christmas...kind of a cheapskate thing, but they are a woodsy rustic thing and people appreciate and use them more than a Hallmark card, which is only good for one fire.
Well this is a fine pickle we're in, should'a listened to Joe McCarthy and George Orwell I guess.
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