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Comment by Chris Brown on December 6, 2010 at 21:00

I love nature. Especially the fine wood it produces. I bet you were in heaven when you found this tree ?

Comment by Andy Voelkle "AxeMan" on October 19, 2010 at 1:44

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Found my first fallen pine with a fatwood core. The longleaf pine was about 30" dia and 100' tall, maybe died in the 70s when we had a pine beetle infestation. Eventually it rotted and fell, leaving a characteristic 6' high stump. My buddy Frank and I chopped away the rotted shell of wood on the stump to expose a 6" dia x 4' tall core we could saw down (not too easily, even with my new Cooper 30" tuttle tooth crosscut saw). The dead tree is at the left of the stump. going off into the distance. That's a 24" Wetterlings and a 14" Japanese bearded axe stuck in the top of the core. Pretty good fatwood as local standards go.

Comment by Bruce Piehl on October 18, 2010 at 18:14

nice!

Comment by Andy Voelkle "AxeMan" on October 18, 2010 at 15:20

That one was a stump pulled by a big bulldozer, in Georgia. This is the best Texas equivalent but is only 65% pitch compared to the 85% Georgia stickypine.

Comment by J.J. Smith III on October 18, 2010 at 9:26

Is this THE infameous "Sticky Pine" ?