Firewood/Fatwood ???

[Cactus]

I have been around firewood all of my life,cut/burnt it etc....I never heard this term before...fatwood....what does that mean?

 

[BB_TX]

Fatwood is basically a special kindling. It is wood that easily starts and burns and used to ignite firewood.
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[dullpain]

Cactus - Fatwood is a pine wood, approximately 8" in length (approximately 3/4" in diameter), which is hand-split from the stumps of pine trees that contain a high concentration of natural resin. This organic, 100% natural resin allows the Fatwood to be started with a single match and gives a sustained flame.

In South Georgia where they have 10's of thousands of acres of pine forest grown for commercial use, Power Poles, Pulp wood for the paper industry, lumber, etc. Those people call fatwood "lightern" same stuff , never heard fatwood till today. Always been "lightern" to me , and many others in the south.

 

[JeffSpencer]

I've always heard it called "fatlighter".

 

[HickoryNut]

By Arkansas definition:

Fatwood is found in the stump of a pine that was harvested
A potent kindling

Lightern, or sometimes called pineknot, is found in the stump of a pine that died standing allowing all the resin to flow back down to the stump
Very dense and impossible to cut or split, you just hack off chips
A potent firestarter

 

[Tdog]

If you pick up a hunk of fatwood & smell it, it has a smell much like turpentine or lighter fluid. Plenty of it in the woods around here. GREAT for starting the ol' woodstove.