Well that's the tough part...piñon is a wood, from what I understand, that only grows in the mountains of New Mexico. Since I live in TX, this is one of the few benefits of living here as we have access to it.
By starting, I mean the places you buy wood from are starting to stock it and since its been 100*+ for the past 3 months, fires are few and far between. Sorry, didn't mean kindling.
Well that's the tough part...piñon is a wood, from what I understand, that only grows in the mountains of New Mexico. Since I live in TX, this is one of the few benefits of living here as we have access to it.
By starting, I mean the places you buy wood from are starting to stock it and since its been 100*+ for the past 3 months, fires are few and far between. Sorry, didn't mean kindling.
I burn alder,apple, and cherry wood because that's the type of trees I have taken down for myself & a few friends , no pinion trees around here . but it sounds like a nice burning wood !
When I worked for Gart LaFontaine, he got an Orvis catalog that made a big deal about " fat wood". Fat wood was carefully cut kindling. It came in a copper can. It was just pretty kindling.
Gary went nuts. He saw it as the ultimate in decadance. After that anything he saw as over the top extravagence, he labeled as " fat wood".
My firewood pile hasn't been washed, manicured, or filed down.
Bah. Ginger infused firewood is for girly men. I pre-smoke my firewood with aged grizzly bear meat, then rub each piece with wolf skin. Only then is it ready to burn, baby burn.
Not being sarcastic, but fat wood, or fat lighter, is something that is great to start fires with. It is the bottom of an evergreen that has tons of sap in it, so it has natural lighter fluid in it. Set a couple of small sticks under your logs and the fat wood does the rest.
Oh, I don't doubt it works, but Gary was old school and used fizz sticks or held back the pitch saturated wood he found while splitting his firewood, which cost nothing. I do the same.
I did a photo assisted, step by step thread of making a fire on this forum. It's old school stuff, but requires no commercially available products to start a fire.
If I brought fat wood into a backcountry camp, I would never hear the end of it.
Now I feel bad about my lame, unhip, firewood. It's so unspecial, just a stack of split fir, a little alder and maple, with no special attention paid to any piece, other than rotating it so any knot didn't line up with the direction of my splitting axe. I'll try and take solace in the fact that my personality-less firewood still burns and heats my home when the weather outside is freezing.
I'm going to start a brand of artisan firewood that is hewn from only the strongest, straightest trees, and only cut during dawn. It shall be called: Morning Wood.
There is a firewood dealer here in NH up in the Northern part of the state where they sell small bundles of wood for camp use by tourists. He has a sign which reads: Our wood is Free Range, Organic and Gluten Free.
I've seen a couple places near Cascade, WA selling organic firewood...can't stand chemicals on my firewood, thankfully the guys in the video wash it off.
Something about a pussy willow goes here, but I'm too tired to make the effort.
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