That trick of drilling all those holes and cutting to 1/2" - 1" thick was very cool. I've never seen a flame dance like that. Thanks, David.

This has got to be the BEST video on "fatwood" and fire starting that I have seen in the past 10 years or more, thanks a heap for posting.

I've used fatwood a bazillion times... even used a coarse file to make fatwood dust... but I never thought of a fatwood swiss cheese wafer. This is awesome Dave!!

The usefulness of this video goes unquestioned. The smile on your face when the leaf blower entered the stage made it priceless 😂

Tinder and kindling from one process, from one tree. Bonus: works in windy and rainy environments. Outstanding!

Unique but great fire starting method.

I feel like that is your emergency guarantee to get fire in a rainstorm. You could make a small package of dust and drilled disk and keep it set aside just for a really bad day situation. Thank you David. That is some excellent info.

This is the way to make a mans friday worth going through. Thanks in advance of even seeing this video. Appreciate all you do good sir.

Friday morning with coffee and Dave, learning about fatwood. Today is a good day! Cheers!

You have to be the most informative person on KZfaq when it comes to survival starting fires finding Tinder I don't know that I've seen anybody do it as informative as you with the quality video thanks for posting

When the swiss cheese wafer took off it had a definite torch affect going. Very intense and excellent for a fire starter for sure. Thank you.

Finally a decent explanation of what fatwood is. Thank you, I appreciate it

Even though serious health issues keep me out of the woods now, I so do enjoy your videos. Always informative and always enjoyable. That swiss-cheese fatwood waffle is da bomb. I was like, ok so he's creating fatwood dust. I've done that. But when you cut the waffle, I was like, damn, that man is smart. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us. Stay safe and stay in the woods.

Hey there dave, like you said, you tube has a bunch of fat wood videos, but in all honesty, I really like this processing procedure, it's the best I've seen. Thank you for another interesting video. Good day.

The leaf blower at the end of the video was worth the price of admission! Great video and I learned a new skill! Thanks Dave.

We're always happy when we get to watch one of your videos. We learn something from all your videos Thank you for wearing the mike, made it nice to hear you clearer. Take care and stay safe 🤗🌞

"The Best Fatwood comes from a tree that's been killed by Lightening..." Well then, "I guess I picked the wrong week to give up my Dr. Frankenstein Tesla Arc Lightening generator shenanigans. What do you make of this Fatwood Johnny?" Johnny: "I can make Swiss cheese, I can make a Waffle, I can make Fatwood Fairy Dust..." Really enjoyed the Fatwood Chef show today, Dave. Thank You!

I went to the woods looking for fatwood after your last video and was lucky to have found quite a lot 😊. This video is great because it tells you how to process it much better. Never seen, never heard, and never would have thought of that Swiss cheese block. That, of course, is why we all watch your videos with such enthusiasm..... always something new to learn. Looking forward to seeing that machete video, especially as you will be voicing your likes and dislikes. 👍. Thanks again for another great watch.

Love this guy’s style and his fantastic accent. Thoroughly enjoyed it. From someone with an Australian accent.

Good ole fat lightered. Our home place, when daddy bought it in the early 60s had a cedar stand on what he called "the new ground". He restored and remodeled our (then) 125 year old home. He harvested and used cedar from many of those trees to panel mama's closet and our living room. It was the most beautiful 3/8 inch thick, red cedar paneling I had ever seen. Each piece was beveled on its edges and created a beautiful, rich room. He had a carpenter friend who had sawmill equipment who milled, planed, and dried the cedar for daddy. As you can imagine, there was lots of lightered knots down in that stand of cedar. Daddy did a bit of bartering with the carpenter in that for his time and equipment use, daddy traded him lots of the extra cedar and the lightered from the stand. They were both well pleased with the trade.

I had never heard of 'fat wood' until I built a rocket stove and my girlfriend gave me some that she'd had since her days as a girl scout leader. Your presentation, description and process are the best and most explicit I have seen about how to find and what to do with it. The 'swiss cheese' slice is simple yet ingenious fire starter for newbs and preppers alike, effectively combining fuel and mass into a compact package.

"Absolutely cool " , I really learn something more, about firewood management. In this matter, you're ahead of all "bushcrafter" on KZfaq. Thanks Dave 😊, this might save life of a bunch of us in the rainy 🌧 days out there, as any bad and cold weather...🧙‍♂️🇨🇦

Thanks for the tip. I have to try that too. It was fun to watch again! Thanks for showing greetings from Austria and Stay healthy Dave! Tom!

Dude, you are the man that is just awesome. I have never thought of using Fatwood that way. That is a fantastic idea. Thanks for showing that.

I've been collecting fatwood for decades and never thought of using a drill to make sawdust out of it! I've been hand grating it and pouring beeswax over it to make a puck. You just saved me a lot of labor! Thank you!

Just when you think you have seen every way of starting fire......dave says hold my beer 😄😄

My method for finding fatwood is simple -- I see a pine stump standing, or a tree laying, I whack it with my walking stick. Usually around the base of a standing stump or fragment, or along the knots and the underside of a tree that's laying down. The more metallic, sharp sound you get out of it, the more and better the fatwood. But man alive, THAT is a great idea! I'll definitely be making some of these little honeycomb/Swiss cheese deals for emergency fires in the rain! I've got a ton of good fatwood waiting on me to bring it out of the woods, including five or six of those completely skeletonized trees. Another great video, Dave!

Best Fatwood tutorial I have seen! Thankyou! 😍👍

I’ve known many a method for processing and utilizing fatwood, but never a top secret one. 😀 Great technique, Dave. Thanks for sharing. P.S. Love your videos, please keep making ‘em.

Its been a busy year for me and haven't had much time to view my favorite bushcrafter. But I had time tonight, and boy, am I glad I did. Thanks, Dave, for this gem of wisdom. You sure make me look smart when I teach my Grandchildren what you taught me.

Hello Dave, I don't know how I missed this video, but wow, this is a great idea. I can't wait to try it out. Hope all is great with you and Nick. Take care, Ben

A really good idea. I live in a pine forest so I've been cutting and using fatwood for years, but this a pretty good emergency idea.

Been watching Dave for many years, he’s an absolute genius on fabrication of metal and things from nature! Idk if he is or not but he could easily be a millionaire if he chose to be!

Your mic sounds good, Lighting , Who woulda thunk Thank You for the lesson Brother.

We can never stop learning enough. Thank you for sharing this technique, great video.

This is the coolest thing I have seen on a new spin off of Fatwood

Thanks Dave!! I think I’m going to make a bunch of these as gifts for my “fire-challenged” friends/fam.

Hi Dave, great seeing your approach, I like using a Forstner bit rather than a flat bit on my slow Pillar drill, it creates shavings rather than the flat bit which makes more dust, also my planer thicknesser makes great shavings once you push the pieces in the right way for the grain to come off right...the benefit of your method is you could simply take out in the wild an eyed auger, improvise a t bar from a good hardwood stick and gradually process your own dust, looking forward to the next vid!

I'm going to call that a Fatwood honeycomb... Genius my man

I'm old and don't get out as much as I want to but when I was growing up my elders always said if you stop learning you start dieing so keep handing out the knowledge and I will keep listening

I LOVE this! We are blessed with TONS of fat woof here in central Wa. I am "DIY junkie" on Bushcraft USA.

Dave, I guess resources are all around us in the wild. You just gotta know what you're looking for and why. This is a very cool idea. You can pre-process and leave them in your vehicles and in your packs for emergency use. I wonder how they'd work if you dipped them in wax for storage. Great video!

I learned something new today. Productive Friday. Thank you sir.

You have the most creative and most thaught out ideas than anyone else. Thankyou for your great fun videos. I always learn something new from your videos.

I followed your instructions exactly, but it doesn't taste like swiss cheese. What am I doing wrong?

Ho hum, here's another youtube fatwood processing shmocessing vide... (13 to 16 minutes in) ...o... what's he up to here with a drill motor and paddle bit... SON-OF-A... Look at the fatwood dust he's makin' !!!! Now what could b so great about a swiss cheese pine tree cookie!?!?! And at 19:42 we have a campfire starting BLOW TORCH out of fatwood!!!!!!!!! Damn cuz, I'm glad I stuck with the video, I'da lost out if I hadn't seen this! Talk about'yer startin' a fire in the rain!

This video made me feel like such an uncreative idiot because I've done a lot of work to get a lot less shaving...i usually give up and just make sticks... Which are good and serve their purpose too , but this... This is some next level time saving goodness... Thanks again Dave

I'm a fire investigator. And that is an excellent demo of fire, growth, behavior and flame progression.

Hey David, cool tip. I have several good-sized chunks of fatwood and I've been wonderin' how to turn some of them into dust without goin' into manual labor with a wood rasp. There is no fatwood around here, the stash I've got was sent to me by friends in California and Canada. I think the Canadian fatwood is better. Do you think that the cold weather up there has anything to do with it? Stay well and I'll talk at ya' later.

You could probably cook up a feast with the fatwood wafers and dust alone, save making a huge fire if you don't need one.

You're a genius! I'd definitely do this for my next bushcraft trip.

That’s the coolest thing I’ve ever seen. I use fat lighter a lot but never saw that before.

I believe this is the most ingenious method I’ve seen regarding fatwood. I’ll definitely be trying this, thanks. Edit: I now know where I’ll be keeping my small egg beater drill from now on. And since it’s got a bit holder in the handle, a perfect spot to store a small ferro rod.

You do the funnest things. Thanks Dave. Tell Nick he was missed.

Great fun. Anything that ends with a leafblower test is like a recipe that starts with 2 beers

All the other survival youtubers are level 5. Dave is taking us deep inside the survival Matrix. He is like Neo, but cooler.

That wind looks glorious!

Living in northern Minnesota we have plenty of fat wood and chaga. I'm going out tomorrow actually to get some fat wood... and I like your channel the best I've watched everyone from corporals corner to Dave Canterbury. Far north bushcraft and survival. ( great channel) Simon a bloke in the woods ect!!!! You have made me a way better Bush crafter and I appreciate it. 👍🏻👊🏻

Back in our early days of taking boys to the woods, we would seek out dead pine stumps and pull scrape them out of the ground....to this day the boys can tell and smell fatwood like seasoned woodsman!! (oldest is 13). Thx for this vid!!

I love watching your videos because I always learn something new. :) Once again, you didn't disappoint ! Thank you.

This is genius! Never thought of it! Great video, as always!

Wow!! Terrific way to process fat wood. Always love watching your channel. Always see or learn something new!! Write the book, Dave!! Best wishes... Ax

Learned something new... I like it. I can see several uses for the "wafer" style of processing. Thanks.

Always a pleasure to see you help people learn survival skills.

The leave blower test was funny. The fire was really good. Looking forward to the machete opinion video.

That weather this weekend was rediculous. Stormed like crazy Thursday and Friday. Was supposed to be gone by yesterday but it was a light drizzle and mist all day. I was out there smoking an 11lb pork shoulder from 6 am. Good thing my outdoor kitchen area is mostly covered. I still ended up pretty wet. I have several 80' pines bordering our woods up behind the house a bit. I usually get the fatwood from dropped limbs. We just dont have a lot of pine here, almost all hardwood and cedar. I have managed to find a few birch on our property, though. Glad to see ya got out this weekend! TC and ATB, Cris.

Dave, haven’t been on KZfaq in awhile. I’ve found fat wood in the past but someone decided to throw my pine knots away…(my honey) sooo I’m going out again to locate some and decided to do some vid-search, you came up and I believe I commented before but the best thing you do is make me smile and laugh.. your have an infectious personality, thanks !

Hey, Dave! You're right! There are maybe 5000 videos about fatwood, and I saw some of them. But I always wondered what a kind of tree it should be. And, stupid me, I always thought, it's maybe a kind of, wich just growing in the states... 😳 Today I finally got it, it's growing right in front of my door - in the hills of Southern Germany! 🤣 Thanks, dude! 😃👍

This is great! I am itching to go out and find a fat wood log. My kid and I broke down an old pine stump a while back and got several pounds of small chunks of fatwood, now I'll be looking harder for logs.

Best method I've seen to date, you live and never stop learning.

Hi Dave. That is one of your best - wow what a great example of thinking out of thre box. Thank you for sharing. ATB. Stay safe. Nigel.

Love this video...sure wished I had known about fat wood years ago...sure would had saved me a lot if time building fires in the early cold spring...best video ever!

It’s so funny and enjoyable that furry little creatures love you and join your videos 😁🌺

That was awesome! Thanks for sharing that, I learned some things even about finding it and collecting it that I didn't get from other videos. Pretty cool!

The first & only place I've seen this technique. Brilliant Dave. Thank you, as always.

I used to dip skoal fine cut wintergreen before it got too expensive... I call your use of the cans a groovy blast from the past 👍

Today In Georgia’s strange and weird news. A local man burns down his entire back yard using a common leaf blower and something called a Swiss cheese 🧀 Fatwood wafer. No homes or cats were harmed but local neighbors commented “That’s our Good neighbor Dave” “always coming up with new ideas to get out of leaf 🍁 raking so he can get back to the woods! Awesome method brother. The black edges on that fire were freaking awesome. I got ideas now for video fx Thanks !

This is what I love about this channel, Dave. Simple instructions with demonstrations as we go, to put together something that is scary-effective. One disk of this processed fatwood in the base of a survival kit could start a fire in tsunami ravaged terrain. Imagine all the small wood bits washed away and the only thing left are logs and larger branches. You would need five gallons of gas to get a fire started, or one of these disks.

Dude, if I may, this is my first time seeing you but I'm gonna watch more cuz I can see your coolness and if I was in the stuff up to my neck, I'd want you by my side! Awesome demeanor, man!

Hi Dave, very cool idea bud, Rock On!

The sound was very good on this video when you used your mike Dave. Thanks for this awesome informative video. 👍😁

That was truly a great idea Dave, you always seem to impress me. Cheers my friend.

You are halfway to a fatwood rocket stove - GJ and thank you!

What a great secret you shared. You could boil water on that chunk of fat wood in an emergency. I very impressed. Thank you.

Awesome idea, brother! Heading out right now to our nearby State Forest to hunt some up. Something I plan to show my grandsons how to do, they both love hunting, fishing, camping. If it has to do with the woods or outdoors, they're all in. Keep up the great work. God bless.

Never seen this before. Now I'll have to try it. I'll be waiting for the machete vid. I recently got a Cold Steel Kukri machete. It looks fair but the blade is really thin. I'm looking forward to seeing which machetes don't hold up to your use or purposes. Thanks for the fatwood trick.

Seen a lot of fat wood videos but not one like this . That’s a grate idea for a wet fire for sure . Thanks Dave , making some for my next outdoor Adventure this coming weekend. Have a good weekend. See you all later and get in the woods!

That was fantastic, my friend! God bless you. John

Ingenious processing! A new technique to add to skill set.

That is an awesome tip David. Thanks for sharing. Hope you and your son are well and having fun

wow! That's impressive! Your cat is like mine walking away, a debris feather duster!

You have to be the coolest uncle or neighbor anyone has ever had. 👍

Yep, I have never seen that before! We love using it for torches and fire starter, but never considered drilling it. Thanks for another great video!

Freaking Fatwood Torch! Dave, you never fail to entertain and educate. Back in early 80's my Grandfather dug up and brought to the house a long leaf pine stump that had to be 30" and was solid fatwood. We cut fatwood off that stump for years.

Thank you for this superb idea. I have not seen it before. I must have a few of these waffles in my fire kit.

Dave, another mind blower! Outstanding!!! Love it I’m going to try this! 👊🏽🙂

Great video - glad it showed up in my feed this morning. Having knowledge in the woods is like taking a ton of equipment with you for free. Just like the knowledge knots turn a piece of cordage into a thousand mechanisms.

Thankya Brother, And all this time I been concentrating on stumps for my fat lighter! Good Intell!

That is an ingenious method of processing fat wood! Love it!! Thanks Dave!

As always another seemingly obvious adaptation of traditional methods making it all your own that nobody but you would ever have thought of and BRILLIANT. Great video brother