Finding The Hidden Fatwood in the Woods!

CHECK OUT MY 100s OF FIREMAKING VIDEOS... There's a lot more hidden fatwood in our older and former pine forests than we realize. Forests with larger pines dotted throughout, but where the harwoods have pretty much taken over. It's common for fast growing pines to spring up and dominate a forest but as the years go by the hardwoods eventually take over and the Pines die out because they can no longer compete. These forests are full of hidden fatwood! What to look for:
1) The easiest finds are limbs and trunks that have completely rotted away and its fatwood laden core is exposed, laying on the ground, and in full view. You will see the typical spear tip shapes projecting from it. They are where the fatwood has settled in the former crotches of the branches of the trunks. The whole piece will still look like it's all wood, but it can be mostly all fatwood.
2) Scan the terrain for the mounds left on the ground from long gone or mostly gone pine trees. Inspect those areas closely commonly there are long pieces of residual fatwood just below the leaf litter. They'll still look like rotting pieces of wood, but a poke with your knife with reveal the hard fatwood within. These can be just under the leaflitter or hiding in plain sight as severely decayed and moss covered logs.
3) Look for what remains of the pine stumps. They may look like they've been cut with a chainsaw. BUT, what you really want to find are the stumps of trees that died while standing, rotted and weakened enough to eventually fall, and left behind shards of fatwood sticking up. These shards are always higher than the stump.
There are good examples of finding all 3 within... also, scraping it with the spine of my Mora Companion, and igniting it with my keychain ferro rod... Please SUBSCRIBE at the end of the video. Thanks!
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