Beginners Guide on How to Find Fatwood in a UK Pine Forrest 

Another classic. Thanks bud

At 12:29 he quickly sweeps the camera over and past an EXCELLENT spot to look for fatwood, the remainder of the tree STUMP left in the ground. The base of an old rotting stump and IT'S ROOTS will produce the most and the best fatwood. He didn't even look there. Fatwood gathers at the base of dying trees and in their roots and is always worth checking out, more than in the injured and dying branches which can also be a good choice. If you find it in the branches you will almost always find a lot more and better fatwood in the base of the trunk and roots.

Great video Thanks, I'm looking for pine knots for carving.

Great video. Hanks for the information.

Top Video as ever 👍🏻 good to see you back dude 😁😁

Informative video mate. Good information to know. Thanks & looking forward to the next one.

Lovely work.

Brilliant 👏

Nice vid thanks guys 👍

Hi spi another great video keep them coming mate 👍🏻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Good to see you back matey. Interesting vlog btw 👍

Just found this channel love it 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Good clear message. Interesting vid.

Just found this channel very helpful thanks

Awesome video my mate. We had proper top day.

Nice video loved the intro thanks for the mention 👍👍 i will be looking for some fat wood in my new location as there is loads of old pine trees lying around atvb Jimmy 😎😎👍👍

Great video good to see the drone out very interesting vid well done guys.👍🇬🇧🍺🤘

Great vid, keep them coming

Thanks for the fatwood vid, admiring ur work and opinions from across the pond near nola. I agree so much with u about how it sucks when people lower their standards and litter, we got it over here as well, jeez maybe worse but we need more people like u guys and those of us who hold ourselves to a higher standard. Keep up the great ideals yall have my brothers.

Informative video. Thanks

Great vid, thumbs up.

Great video matey. Like the new kit 👍 Sadly not put the lesson you and Andy gave me on hunting for fat wood to good use so will need a refresher course 👍 Say hi to Leon for me. Cheers pal 👍

Great vid. Totally agree with you about the rubbish.

Awesome bud cheers 👍🏻

good to you haveing fun,, the thick amber stuff is often in the roots of huge stumps, lot of work to get at but rewarding,, i use a small grubing mattock to dig them out, (£15 from screwfix) im sure with bit more time you will find the good stuff,,

Good knowledgeable video. Thank you.

Processing fat wood while watching your video. Getting ready for next weekends camping trip. I will be taking my son's with me.

Handy info. Thanks. Would liked to have seen it broken down and cleaned up.

Great tip on hunting fatwood

Nice woodland and I don't know much about fat wood but I do now👍

I seriously doubted it would be that 'easy' to find fatwood in UK well done

Great video, despite several attempts, I am still yet to find my own fatwood and after watching your video, I am looking forward to taking my dog for a walk in my local coniferous woodland later, also I totally agree .... LEAVE .... NO .... TRACE!! It's not hard, don't be selfish. Its not big or clever, the Minority can and do ruin it for us, the Majority. BW from South Somerset

Hard work that

were did you get the marathons from :( . cool vid spiro. thanks for the info on were to go and look for fat wood. be safe

Great video mate, Good to see you back at it. Hoping to get up to the forest of Dean this coming week so I'll let you know if i've actually learnt anything :P Already looking forward to seeing your next vid. did you bury Leon in the black bags?

A couple of things to ask or say! first is when you thought you had found the gold mine I noticed a couple of things a lot of people are guilty of! you were standing up back bent over and you also had your kit on your back second as you were sawing you was nipping your saw and you can see it in the video, I would have taken my kit off and kneel so I was nearer to my work and have something under the work so it is easier to saw one last thing you may be able to help me with is how long can you store the wood for ( is there a sell-by date ) so to speak.

Fab video guys! Shame about the rubbish left 😁👍🏼

good

nice touch of dubstep music 😁

Funny intro :) Thanks. Shame we didn't get to see you process the wood. Seeing the litter drives me crazy too. No respect or awareness of nature's beauty.

Oh man there’s some disgusting people around leaving all that crap around. Interesting video, I knew that resin accumulated around the limbs but had no idea about top of the root system too. Every day is a school day.

Off to look for fatwood today

Hi mate. Does Sitka pine produce fat wood. Thanks

Good stuff mate, ill be going out having a look myself now.

Also is there a special tree that’s best for fat wood?

OK complete noob here with a couple of queries 1, where do we stand with the knives and the law in the UK? 2, you said you was going to show how to process it 3, just what do we use it for, I'm adding fire. Thanks in advance.

Do you not cut into the dead stump?

You do have to hunt for it to be honest Haha,I've been searching for ages now a few year,and finally found lots of golden red nuggets

hello really enjoyed the video as im off out on my first adventure very soon looking for fat wood and in a unrelated topic could you tell the brand of tactical trouser you have on in this video as they look exactly what i am looking for ? -p.s im with you both on people littering infact littering anywhere , i have ongoing battles with people who think its fine to thriw wrappers, scratch cards even cigarette butts, clearly poorly educated and disrespectful i had 2 people sat in a car outside my flat cracked the window a bit then started pushing out two pizza boxes , used napkins and then two drink cups this was around 6pm in daylight with people walking passed !! so god only knows how these poor excuses for civilised people would behave in a forest where no one can see them the mind boggles! 🤬- anyway great channel 👍 im late to the bushcraft party but enjoying learning from guys like you two who kindly share knowledge... god bless both 😇😇 👍- john

also u have the same bug out bag as me

If you give the video a thumbs up then comment 👍 does that count as four?

Has anyone ever found any fat wood in North Yorkshire Or Stainburn Forest for that matter

What forest is that ?

If you can't find pine , what else to look out for .

Humans are pigs. I have picked up a lot of "Stuff" in the woods. It always amazes me how people treat our world.

the problem you had is that you tried to process fat wood from pine trees that had fallen quite early into there death now the knots even 6 ft up in a dead pine tree that is still standing will have much much more fat wood this is because gravity has has a longer affect on the tree sap. another is main roots and tap root, if you have a shovel of course. I have taken out a few experiments and found this is the case however it is hard to distinguish how long a tree has been dead for. Would love to know where this forest is 😅

What is fat wood for??

Here's a comment.

Great vid. Pity about the muppets who frequented woods. There the animals, not the wildlife! 👍👍👍

bear do it in the woods lol

So, fatwood. What's that all about? I'm none the wiser from watching the vid although reading through the comments I learn that it to do with making a fire.

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The biggest shit gripper for me is people who discard their junk into the natural environment. And one of the ultimate sins for me is those who pick up their dog sh*t and then hang it on to trees!

Dude you pack wayyyy to much

REALLY? 11:30 into a 20:22 video and you are still not showing us "How to Find Fatwood". Regardless of how much YOU know, don't you think that is TOO MUCH unnecessary garbage? PLEASE, in the future try harder to present a video more informative on the subject. If you want to rant and rave about how people leave their garbage in the woods do so in a separate video. If you can't or won't do that I will unsubscribe and find others who will.