I posted a while back about fatwood being the wood from pine stumps with the pitch concentrated in them. Every year I cut up a few decayed looking pike stumps around here and save a fortune by not buying the same stuff in little plastic bags.
Well, tonight I did something I never have done before. Late starting a fire and not much small stuff to put in the stove. I layed a big chunk of the stump wood in there that I hadn't had time to hack up. Talk about nuclear.
Think two pound piece of fatwood here. Zero to sixty in nothing flat. Probably find the chimney cap in the neighbor's yard tomorrow.
Quit buying that crap folks. Next time in the woods take the oldest most decayed looking pine tree laying on the floor of the woods home in pieces. Ya gonna love it.
Update: Thirty minutes later and that one chunk is carrying the F3 at a steady 500 and not looking like it is getting tired. One cord of this stuff would get me through the winter. Screw oak.
Well, tonight I did something I never have done before. Late starting a fire and not much small stuff to put in the stove. I layed a big chunk of the stump wood in there that I hadn't had time to hack up. Talk about nuclear.
Think two pound piece of fatwood here. Zero to sixty in nothing flat. Probably find the chimney cap in the neighbor's yard tomorrow.
Quit buying that crap folks. Next time in the woods take the oldest most decayed looking pine tree laying on the floor of the woods home in pieces. Ya gonna love it.
Update: Thirty minutes later and that one chunk is carrying the F3 at a steady 500 and not looking like it is getting tired. One cord of this stuff would get me through the winter. Screw oak.