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Posted on 12/8/21 at 6:11 pm to m2pro
You forgot the proper term of "fat lighter". 
Posted on 12/9/21 at 8:38 am to speckledawg
I remember the first time i saw fire starter in a store, asked my mom why people would be it when "fat pine" is free.
Nothing like almost chopping your finger tips off with a hatchet as a child
Nothing like almost chopping your finger tips off with a hatchet as a child
Posted on 12/9/21 at 8:55 am to m2pro
In South MS we always called it lighter knot. Every time I go to our family land I go searching for chunks of it.
We tore down a deck that was built around 1980 a few years ago, and I started repurposing some of the wood until I split a piece and that smell hit me. I repurposed it to light my fires after that.
We tore down a deck that was built around 1980 a few years ago, and I started repurposing some of the wood until I split a piece and that smell hit me. I repurposed it to light my fires after that.
Posted on 12/9/21 at 9:35 am to Animal
We called it lighter pine
Posted on 12/9/21 at 10:29 am to lsuson
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We called it lighter pine
Anecdote:
My father was the Fire Chief in my little rural hometown and I often went on calls with him. Some of the older houses actually were made out of boards that overtime cured into "fat lighter." You wanna see a structure burn like the blazes of hell? Without fail in these instances the structure would be a total loss. No matter how fast the response it would be "fully involved" before anyone could get there.
ETA: Another thing I noticed. Car fires always occur way out in the county and brand new cotton pickers always catch fire at the end of picking in the furthest corner of a 300 acre field.
This post was edited on 12/9/21 at 10:36 am
Posted on 12/9/21 at 11:59 am to texag7
Fun story-
moved into my house here in 2017. Decided where to put the fire ring, right around a big old pine stump, figured we'd eventually burn it out.
What I didn't know is that it was old enough to have turned into fat lighter. All the way down into the ground and into the roots going underground. Smoke was coming up out of the ground all around the firepit.
It took a while with the water hose to put it out.
My brother in law has one in the backyard of his new (old) house too. He had never heard of it before, so I proceed to hack away at it for a few slivers to demonstrate. It was so hard I never got more than a couple slivers before giving up. I didn't want to continue embarrassing myself, hacking away at what is basically a small boulder looking like a moron with the axe just bouncing off.
I just buy mine at the store now for firestarting. I also keep a stick deep down in each of my daypacks for emergency firestarting purposes.
Another pro-tip: When you have to do a stinky chore, hold a stick of fat lighter up to your nose while dealing with the rotting fish guts etc.
moved into my house here in 2017. Decided where to put the fire ring, right around a big old pine stump, figured we'd eventually burn it out.
What I didn't know is that it was old enough to have turned into fat lighter. All the way down into the ground and into the roots going underground. Smoke was coming up out of the ground all around the firepit.
It took a while with the water hose to put it out.
My brother in law has one in the backyard of his new (old) house too. He had never heard of it before, so I proceed to hack away at it for a few slivers to demonstrate. It was so hard I never got more than a couple slivers before giving up. I didn't want to continue embarrassing myself, hacking away at what is basically a small boulder looking like a moron with the axe just bouncing off.
I just buy mine at the store now for firestarting. I also keep a stick deep down in each of my daypacks for emergency firestarting purposes.
Another pro-tip: When you have to do a stinky chore, hold a stick of fat lighter up to your nose while dealing with the rotting fish guts etc.
This post was edited on 12/9/21 at 12:03 pm
Posted on 12/9/21 at 5:39 pm to texag7
Bark from a river birch is the best natural fire starter I’ve ever seen.
Posted on 12/9/21 at 6:10 pm to Marlo Stanfield
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Lighter knot
The correct name
Posted on 12/10/21 at 8:44 am to texag7
"Fat lighter" where I grew up.
Also, I've always heard it was from a pine that died in the winter. Summer pine, the sap is throughout the entire tree, in the winter, it's more densely packed in the heart of the tree.
I have no idea if that's true.
Also, I've always heard it was from a pine that died in the winter. Summer pine, the sap is throughout the entire tree, in the winter, it's more densely packed in the heart of the tree.
I have no idea if that's true.
Posted on 12/10/21 at 9:00 am to slacker130
Its heart pine from older growth pine. Season of death has nothing to do with it.
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