I've read where fatwood is in the stump. I've never noticed it in any pine stumps around here. Probably not the right pine species up here. Cut into it and see if it's full of solid wood and smelling very piney.
It might have some fat to it, cut it, should smell like turpentine or Pine Sol if it is any good. Fat wood or fat lighter as we call it in Dixie, came from old growth long leaf and slash pines. They were some huge trees, as I have seen some really big stumps. This is one we had, cut it up and gave it away at Backwoods Savage GTG last year. If it is any good, it will be heavy for it's size.
Doesn’t look like fat wood to me, just a rotting tree. fatwood is not soft and spongy like that. It looks basically like amber or plastic almost.
That just looks like a rotten tree to me. Pretty sure you find bits of fatwood in the stump and maybe some large(r) branch knots - anywhere in the tree sap/pitch might pool. Now there might be some fatwood hidden in there especially in the stump but you'd have to go picking at it to find. I've never found any as we only have eastern white pines and scrub pines here. Even red pines are most likely planted here and not natural. Every now and then I'll find a little pitch pocket in a pine split but they are far and few in between . They sure do burn though.
Best spot to find it is cut the dead limbs rt to the trunk on red pines and its there. Red pine has a much larger concentration than the other greens
Never used fatwood but its from the stump. None of the pines around here have it that im aware of. While camping last year i was hacking limbs off this huge rotting pine. They were very resinous and made some black smoke and spit a lot while burning, but great firewood.
I read the same. If I’m not mistaken they let the stumps sit for awhile after cutting to harvest. My mom had a bunch of various pine trees taken down. A couple seemed to be of the correct variety, red I think. I wasn’t thinking well enough. Should have left the bottom stumps on the side to split fine and see if it worked. Doh!!!!
Here, we get it from damaged trees, pines or firs. If I understand correctly, the tree send a lot of sap to the damaged area, to try to heal it. Also, if you cut a high stump and leave it, come back in a year and cut it down, it will be great. I had the top half of a Ponderosa Pine come off in a wind storm. A big tree, nearly 3 ft dbh. The remaining "stump" stood for about 2 years before I cut it down. The whole thing was practically fatwood!
clemsonfor is one to ask. He sent me some for a S S gift a few years back. The black spruce here is very resinous at the branches where it meets the trunk. I put the chunks aside for starter kindling.
