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Is this how pine fatwood looks when green

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    Dunmyer mowing llc

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    Got a pine score today. Buddy cut a live one down 2 day ago. Cracked a big round and found this. Is this what living fatwood looks like? Or is this something else?
     

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    Looks like a nasty pitch pocket to me.

    Its my understanding fatwood is pine with a lots of resin in it. Ive cut limbs from huge fallen rotting pines (limbs were solid) when camping and they had lots of resin and burned great.
     
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    Hmm. Kept this piece separate to see what it does as it dries. Smelt like pine, didn't get any hint of rotten. The red surprised me alot
     
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    Looks like a bloody half cooked rack of baby back ribs smothered in Stubbs BBQ sauce to me.
     
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    Not fatwood, but I bet it'd burn like gasoline!
     
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    It definitely smelled like Pine pitch. There's definitely little resin blobs on the rest of the wood that was above the pine that was all sappy
     
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    None of your Ponderosa/lodgepole has pitch pockets?
    WHITE_PINE_SAPPY.JPG
     
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    WOW Eric! I just asked husband that does the splitting and he said yes, we did have that. I didn't know, never got on my hands bringing splits in or loading them in the stove. What I do know is that once in a while there's be a log that would hiss and snap/pop while burning. Who knew! He said he actually tossed splits a couple times because he didn't want that much resin burning in the stove.

    To clarify, is the split in your pick fatwood?
     
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    He also mentioned it was the splits that had dark orange lines in them, I do remember that, though they weren't sticky to me either. I'd only get sticky from small bubbles of pitch on the bark.
     
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    Fatwood
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    Not fatwood pictured, just plain eastern white pine limb wood with a pitch pocket.
    Yeah that sap definitely explodes into flames. Whenever I toss a piece like that in, I stay right there watching it for a bit until it calms down. Don't want the inferno getting away from you.
     
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    So, since we have established this is not fat wood. Any idea on what causes the red almost marbled raw beef spot? Never seen that in pine before
     
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    blacktail my first though was looks like caramel.lol
     
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    Asked my buddy that cut this tree down. He said it's between 50 and 60 yrs old. His grandpa planted it. I thought that was kinda cool
     
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    Well someone was obviously hungry
    at 9 last night...
    And then I clicked on the pic and really looked at it. And I want to lick the phone.... Cause now yall got me thinking bbq or caramel.....
     
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    The picture looks an awful lot like a bacterial infection (often called bacterial wetwood) in a wound the tree suffered somehow. The tree will attempt to fight the infection or protect the wound by smothering it with extra sap production. The bacteria turns the sap into a slime flux that can present in many different colors ranging from white to yellow and reddish brown. It should dry out now that it is split and will likely behave similarly to fatwood.

    I’ve also noticed that pine bark beetle killed pine will also be loaded with extra sap/resin and a grey staining of the outer rings of wood. Again extra sap is produced to help fight off the pest. These trees are often much heavier than their healthy brethren.

    Eric Wanderweg ring shake typically causes the coniferous pitch pockets in your picture.
     
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    Went back for more tonight.
    I was wrong he didn't cut them down
    It's 2 trees that blew over. I couldn't see the stumps last night.
    He just bucked some of them for me which was really really nice
     
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