Is this how pine fatwood looks when green

Note to self: Always remember where you set your caramel apple while processing firewood.

 

Doing some night splitting on the same pine tree.
I think what caused the infection or the pitch pocket is that this tree had multiple trunks which around here anyway is rare in pines. Split a round tonight where you could see to distinct ring growths with a leaky fissure in the middle. Cracked it open and it looked very similar to the pictures in the o.p. the red has dried out of the o.p. splits and that area is very hard. The pieces are very resin soaked and heavy for pine. Can't wait to burn them in a year or 2

 

When you fire that sucker up in a year or 2:



PINE IS FINE!!!!

 

Everything in this red circle either is or will be fatwood! If it was me I’d save that aside and split it into slivers the size of small/medium splitting trash for fire starters.

 

Barcroftb trying to learn here. Sometimes in internet it's hard to tell if someone's being a smartass or not. I'm truly trying to learn from these next questions.
How come the split in the op not fatwood then? You said that one was an infection. Both came from where the tree was splitting into 2 trunks. But from different rounds of that section.
Bothe sections extremely resin soaked.
If I left these fat wood pieces as stokers would it burn to hot?
Or are you recommending to split down just to use as fire starters?
Gonna get another load of this trees tonight and do some more splitting.
Thanks for the info

 

Thanks for the info, the Ponderosa Pines that I cut were killed by bark beetles. It exhibited all the things you listed.

 

To me fatwood is what’s left after most of the moisture has seasoned out of the wood. It leaves behind only the hardened resin soaked in the wood. It’s usually found in cut stumps and it takes at least 2-3 years to develop there. You can also find small amounts of it at the branch collar on most evergreen trees. Even on rotten downed logs. Every branch collar/knot will have a little bit of brownish fatwood.

If you look at your first pic there is a lot of moisture there. Look at the pic I highlighted and compare the color of the non black wood to the pic brenndatomu posted of a fatwood stump. Very similar characteristics. Essentially that piece is further along in the process than your op pic. There’s really no such thing as living fatwood. It will either be a dry hard resin soaked low moisture piece of fatwood or just another piece of soft wood.

As far as the pieces burning too hot I guess that depends on your stove and how you run it. I’m not trying to tell you how to handle your wood.

 

Barcroftb awesome info thanks man.
I'll probably leave them big. I aim for 250f on exterior of stovepipe about 18" up. Usually this puts my stove top between 650 and 715