Wood Products 9910 Fatwood Box, 10 Pounds - Pack 3

When you say 'fatwood' most folks don't know what you're talking about. But-- I used to go into the woods with my grandpa to hunt it.He'd carry a burlap sack and we'd go looking for fallen pine threes. Pretty soon we'd find one and pick away the course rotted part of the tree and in the center we'd find the heart. They never rot. He would fill our sack and we'd carry them to the wood shed. I'd sit there watching him cut little pieces with his ax. I got to pick them up and stack them neatly in his kindling box and we were good to go! What fun-- so I always like to have these around when fireplace weather gets here. A little bit of nostalgia. Thanks AMAZON.

We have a fireplace - didn't want to use paper or cardboard as kindling - too much ash. Saw this on Amazon, read the reviews, the positives outweighed the negatives, so we bought the 25lb. box on Dec. 9. The sticks worked great - lit up immediately and stayed lit long enough to light the seasoned wood. I used about 4 - 6 a day. Then I decided I didn't want the big 25lb. box taking up space in my living room, so I put a bunch of the sticks standing straight up in a big tin box - easier to pull them out that way. Today I picked a few out of the tin box, laid out my firewood, and … Surprise! They would not light! I kept trying another and another! Not one of them lit. I held the lighter under them for several minutes! My husband took a few and examined them closely. We have now determined that this company is fraudulent! Apparently, they add some sort of accelerant to the sticks, but just the top layer of sticks. (This B.S. about chemical-free. 'Just resin from pine trees' - I don't think so!) So they fill the box with blanks, and when it's about 3/4's full, they finish it off with the sticks they added the accelerant to. By the time you get down a quarter of the way, and figure out what the problem is - it's past the 30-day return policy! It's pure genius! If I didn't decide to put the sticks in a smaller container, I wouldn't have gotten to the duds before the 30 days were up! Returning them! I wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt and tried to get a replacement box, but the 25lb box is now $47.89 (3 weeks ago it was $38.59). They won't do an even exchange. My Amazon Customer Service rep tried, but the company refused. So I guess I'll try something else for my kindling starter. My advice - don't buy them, but if you do, dump them into another box and try some from the bottom.

I got a ten pound box of it and just that will last a LONG time because you only use a little to initiate a fire. The pine resin saturated sticks have dried in the wood and aren't sticky, and they reminded me of some type of brownish/reddish plastic actually, with some even allowing light to glow through them. An odd thing, to be fascinated by a piece of wood like that lol. And speaking of plastic, although they smell nice like burning pine should, they actually burn like they were hunks of plastic as the smoke they put off while burning is black and creates a lot of soot. As the flame catches and the wood heats up, the pine sizzles, liquifies and bubbles on the wood, leading to a pretty intence flame once they really get going. As far as getting them lit goes, they're not volatile or anything like that and don't quite catch a flame like a candle wick, so it takes about ten seconds under a match or lighter to get them to catch, and then, there you go.. it starts slow and then really picks up. My uses are restricted to keeping a stick or two in my camping bag, (the size of a single stick is like a bundle of four pencils) and as an alternative to lighter fluid to get some classic charcoal burning for a BBQ. I'll take a knife to split them down to smaller pencil sized pieces, then spread them out on the charcoal, or you can put a peice or two beneath the coals if there's an open area. Light them up and they'll blaze agressively and long enough to finally start those coals to burn in their own. No more squirting lighter fluid on them twenty times and relighting, or using the "Matchlight", easy-to-light charcoal briquettes that turn to ash and are done glowing in under an hour. Anyway, fat wood is a great application for that, or any other where you need to get a stubborn fire going. As an added bonus, you'll love that moment when you open the box and the scent of a pine forest hits your nose and puts a smile on your face :)

Saves me time, money and clean up. No more wadding up paper and stuffing it in the stove, no more box of old newspapers sitting in the living room, no more of having to dump the ashtray monthly (didn't realize how much ash builds up from using newspaper!), and no more smug build up on the glass from burning paper. I lay 2 sticks across each other with dry kindling, light one of these with a wooden match and walk away, give it 5mins and load the stove. We have used about 1/2 (25lb) box through the fall and winter so I.m more than happy with this product. How's it save money? Had to have the stove repaired due to corrosion of some parts, manufacture stated that burning newspaper (especially the slick colored adds and color Sunday comics) was a no-no, the ink in the ash becomes corrosive and over time causes damage. So no more newspaper for me. BTW I never had any trouble lighting any of the sticks with a wooden match.