Mayan Flame™ Fatwood 100% Natural Fire Starter Fireplace Fire Sticks BBQ Wood Firestarter Camping S4U® (1pcs)

Excellent for home use, even better for bushcraft! You will not be disappointed. You get a large amount for your money and it just works.

I primarily wanted a few fatwood sticks to include in my survival kit and go bag. After recoiling in horror at the prices being asked for a single stick on a string, I discovered these bulk boxes, and ordered the 10lb version, which is currently excellent value for money.On arrival mine was very slightly over the stated weight, and packed full of decently chunky sticks of genuine fatwood, so I feel pleased with my purchase, and I'm happy to recommend this product.For outdoor purposes I find that shaving it with a sharp knife, and piling shavings over a base of dry grass or paper, then covering with gradually larger twigs is a great way to start a fire. In heavy rain, use a cotton wool and vaseline ball, and add thin bits of fatwood to get a fire well established before you add scavenged twigs and wood.If you are indoors and burning properly seasoned wood in a stove, fatwood sticks are probably overkill, in my opinion. You should be able to light your stove with a bit of scrunched up paper and dry twigs. If you can't do this, check your chimney isn't blocked, and your wood isn't too damp. Burning damp wood creates unnecessary smoke pollution, and deposits flammable resins in your chimney, which is a fire hazard.I recommend investing in a moisture meter for your firewood, and only burning it if the moisture content is 20% or lower. I also highly recommend the book Norwegian Wood by Lars Mytting, that I purchased here on Amazon a few weeks ago.If you've found any of this helpful, I'd be hugely grateful if you could let me know, by hitting the button below. Many thanks :-)

We use this all the time for our wood burning stove. It is always promptly delivered.

I prefer this over other brands, because the advertising doesn't over-promise. That may be a small thing, but I think honestly in product descriptions should be encouraged. Another brand I've tried says that the wood will light "on a single match". Frankly, that's exceptionally unlikely in my environment. This particular product is described as "easy to light", which is sort-of believable.Other reviewers have said that this wood will light with a fire-steel, but that doesn't match my experience. Again, that might be because I'm using it in a cold, damp environment.FWIW my approach to using fatwood for camp fires is to put a pea-sized piece of petroleum-based firelighter under a pyramid of 6-7 fatwood sticks, and then "real" fuel wood directly on top of that. I've found this combination will start a fire even in very damp, cold conditions. The petroleum firelighter really will light with a single match, and a pea-sized piece is enough to light the fatwood sticks. Six fatwood sticks will start a fire with quartered pieces of dry firewood.One reviewer suggested shaving the sticks into slivers to make tinder; I haven't tried that, but I suspect that such a tinder probably would light with a fire-steel, at least so long as it isn't raining.In any case, you shouldn't expect too much from products like this. There's no doubt in my mind that fatwood is a better way to start a camp fire than a big stack of hexamine blocks -- it's less toxic, and smells much nicer. However, it won't make fire-starting effortless.

This product is great for learning fatwood ignition using a ferro rod and striker. I have sourced my own fatwood before on foraging walks, but as a resource it is quite difficult to find in sufficient quantities whilst learning the technique. This 10lb box represents great value for money and ignites really well when piled in small shavings with a ferro rod and striker. You can even just set light to it with jet lighter easily enough for setting a fire in a log burner, fire pit or pizza oven. Would highly recommend.

the package was open on delivey not sealed, open useless ???????

The first batch of 10 lbs I bought a couple of years ago was excellent, plenty of really resinous sticks which made great fire lighters when cut into shorter sections and have lasted for ages. My recent second batch are only slightly resinous, more like sticks than fatwood, they still burn readily but nothing like proper fatwood does. Disappointing. Won’t be buying again.

High resin content means this is excellent for starting a camp fire. I used a good camping knife to whittle some larger shavings then scraped the kindling stick with the back of the blade to create some finer scrapings/dust. It caught with a ferro rod and quickly gave a perfect starter to light the rest of the fire. 10lbs is a lot- I used under a quarter of one stick and there are dozens and dozens of them in a packet so I now have many years’ supply!

Die halbe packung ist gut, die andere hälfte nicht. ich habe stücke mit mega viel Harz drin, was ich auch mit recht als kienspann betieteln würde und dann sind stücke mit wirklich sehr wenig harz drin, also, für den preis, okay aber ich habe ein lachendes und ein weinendes auge an der stelle

168 gr. Pochissima resina. Reso.

Muy útil y practico

Ces bâtonnets de bois imprégnés sont parfaits pour garder la flamme plus longtemps et plus facilement par rapport à du bois simple.La matière un peu grasse au toucher qui les imprègne s'enflamme très vite et durablement.Glissé entre le papier et le petit bois, on est sûr que le feu prendra bien et on économise de façon substantielle la quantité de petits bois d'allumage.En plus, ça sens bon ! Impeccable.