Fatwood Fire Starter

[gaddy]

Who carries Fat wood as a Fire starter and where do you find it? Knife you use ? Is it in your kit ? Was looking at some bush craft vid's and It looks good.

[Boss .300 winmag]

Are you talking about the natural pitch wood, or commercially made stuff?🤔

[gaddy]

Natural Stuff. I always have something but had never heard of using Fatwood. Had to look it up. Was curious who used it.

[RB]

Swains in Port Angeles is where I bought a big bag about two years ago.

[Rainier10]

I use it at my cabin. Mcclendon’s carries it.

[Boss .300 winmag]

I just luck upon it from time to time, I used some last deer season which is rare. Do you use a lot of it?

[Crunchy]

If you know a roofer you might be able to snag a bundle of cedar roof shingles.  If you look at it wrong it catches on fire.  That's all we use.

[hughjorgan]

Pretty sure you can get fat wood at Lowe’s or homedepot as well. No experience with it though.

[kellama2001]

We use fatwood all the time, it's great stuff! Get it through Plow & Hearth.

[Fl0und3rz]

Base of limbs of fallen pine trees can be pretty pitchy, which is what i call fat wood.

[Rob]

I keep 2-3 small sticks of it in my kit.  Great Firestarter, burns damp and slow

[gaddy]

The base limbs and the root system is what I found when I looked it up. Rob, I was thinking of adding it to mine as well.

[kselkhunter]

We use fat wood for lighting our wood stove. When I'm doing a later season hunt with tipi + stove I always have fat wood in my pack. We use enough of it for starting our wood stove that my wife buys it in larger packages off Amazon. So I always have a stash of it.

[h2ofowlr]

I just use a cotton ball with some Vaseline on it.  Works perfect.

[CoryTDF]

Here is a good way to get your own fatwood. https://seekoutside.com/blog/fire-starting-wood-prep/ after i read this I actively searched for fatwood and found it was easy to find and procure. It works wonders in titanium stoves.