Introduction to Fatwood [Pitchwood]

Description

Krik of Black Owl Outdoors talks about one of nature's most valuable resources, fatwood, or pitchwood. Fatwood is the result of a conifer, usually of the pine variety, attempting to heal itself with sap. The residual sap is then infused into the wood. It is most common amongst broken branches, snapped off trees, and scars from an object hitting the tree. The rosin prevalent in the fatwood makes it excellent for fire craft.

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Video Transcription

sup Turtles this is creek here at black outdoors today I'm going to be doing a video talking about and showing a really great resource in the forest which is fat wood and I've collected some here which unfortunately I found this when I was not out with stoney but there will be videos of sort of collecting a finding fatwood so stay tuned and hold your comments until you maybe see that video but I found some fat wood and what fat wood is is really in Peggy impregnated saturated would of a pine trees or really resinous conifers not hemlock hemlocks this is not occurring it's it's saturated impregnated with pitch or resin or SAP and its would you can see this is actually but it's so saturated impregnated with with resin it really takes on this different different characteristic and this is really valuable for getting fires and people I know that people amazon and rainforest the locals really covered this for getting and keeping fires going and really damp climates and this is really going to hold hold on hold a flame for a long time which I will show you in a second but in like I'm not around excuse me I'm not around pine trees right now but as an example as to where you could look on a tree for SAP wood there's a hemlock here and a point where a branch meets the trunk and say this was broke off and the tree tried to heal itself and sent resin there as a natural defense for a wound these sort of areas here the branches coming off is really where fat will be located now this is not like I said there will be a video we finding fatwood and collecting it but for story ideas sake that's where you'd want to look for if there's a big scrape in a tree another tree hit it falling down the pie and say pine tree were around where I am would send the resin to heal itself for that spot then you can just collect it right off the bark of the tree or the trunk of the tree alright let's get down and light this on fire so you show you it's really uh how effective and great this for the fire I'm not going to use this big piece like I said this is really valuable especially around here there's not a lot of pine trees I'm going to use this I'm going to use a smaller piece i'll show you how long does this this will last for and for the sake of being out in the woods i found some really a dry bark which i have broke up and really shredded which i'm going to use a use a Ferro rod too late here's the bark stunner you get on that i'm going to show you what look like before I did that here's more of it it came from this bigger clump that I've collected and drying in this is a shredded bark that's one old trees that I'll find around here and there will be another video of me finding this resource as well and I'd previously kept this in my pocket kept the dry because it is so fibrous and light it really will pick up moisture very very fast we're putting the next to my body in my pocket will help dry it off but it's got a little bit right here to help plate the fat would show you open this up a little bit make a little more surface area yeah well piece it is wood in there now the fat ones caught I'll let that sit and want to do its thing to block the wind a little bit and that will just burn for a while I'm not sure how long this you know for timing wise but this is going to burn a while and this is really going to help you get a fire and like I said this is a very small piece and I have a larger piece here so i'm not going to light up but this was a resource in your air you can find a lot of you could really makes a lot easier to get and keep fires going when it's wet its fat would really amazing stuff it's prayer sounding out with black outdoors paper Turtles you