FAT LIGHTER TREE FOUND! History Found and Saved By Clearing Overgrowth! (Fat Wood Heart Pine)

[@THEOLDBYRDFARMVLOG]

Do me a favor and go back and watch the first video in the clean up series over on Adventures Into History as a reminder of how it was. The difference is amazing! Channel and Farm Tip Jar: www.paypal.com/paypalme/rwrightphotography More: linktr.ee/adventuresintohistory Merch: adventuresintohistory.myspreadshop.com/all Join The Official Fan Group: facebook.com/groups/561758371276581/?ref=share_group_link MAIL: Sidestep Adventures PO Box 206 Waverly Hall, Georgia 31831

[@barbaramai7610]

Robert, it is very obvious that you enjoy what you are doing and you are to be commended for your care and concern! A Very Merry Christmas to you and those you love.

[@Nancy_Schmancy]

How awesome would it be to have all those leaves and pine needles raked up. I hope a bunch of people will get together to spend an afternoon or two to do that sometime. If I lived nearby, I sure would volunteer. I love doing that kind of thing.

[@GeorgiaRidgerunner]

ehh probably better to leave the leaves and straw they will slow the growth of the of weeds

[@anetzband1383]

I was itching to have a rake and go along that line of indentations, trying to see if more field stones could be found.

[@seminolewar]

The story I was told since I was a kid, is that the fat lighter or lighter pine is when the tree dies, then all the sap runs down and fills up the lower part of the tree. The pine tree is not a hard wood, and soft lumber that is very easy to drive a nail through, until it becomes fat pine.

[@LaurieHallberg-z1d]

Do maples do that?

[@LaurieHallberg-z1d]

Say Hi to the community "guard snake".

[@frankscarborough1428]

Robert you are certainly clearing this cemetery out. Good job. Merry Christmas

[@davidcarroll1883]

It's fun watching Robert work.

[@Lorriann63]

You're doing an awesome job, Robert. I learn about things and how things work as you explain them. And it is fun watching you work.

[@THEOLDBYRDFARMVLOG]

I really appreciate that!

[@avrillloyd4120]

A very well done job!!!! I have watched all of these and it has been fascinating to see the difference.Happy Christmas to you and all your compatriots.

[@edtetter4898]

It looks so much better Robert wonderful work your doing 😊

[@sheilahosey6085]

I can smell it! Love the smell! Best fire starter there is.

[@SuwanneAngel4558]

Thank you, Robert for bringing back childhood memories of when I visited my grandparents Georgia farm. ❤

[@kimberleyannedemong5621]

A great job Robert. Merry Christmas 🎄

[@berrysealey5628]

My brothers and I use to go deep in the woods to find Fat Fighter,love the smell of it,Thxs for posting Robert, Merry Christmas to you and yours!!

[@debraholdman5308]

Merry Christmas, Robert, Dan and Other Robert. Same to Cecil and Joy.

[@joyfisher2128]

Merry Christmas ❤

[@lindawoody8501]

Merry Christmas Robert! Glad you are working at this important task little by little. What an improvement! Thank you for your fine caring work.

[@celleduffel1533]

to bad a group cant come in and all bring rakes and weed blowers and clean the cemetery floor up to expose whatever may be under it all. Great video and ty hon for what you are doing.

[@charlesjohnsjr.5809]

Would need to plant grass. Weed seeds would take off if bare earth becomes visible.

[@celleduffel1533]

@@charlesjohnsjr.5809 ya know, I never thought of that..we have done that when it came to our backyard.

[@paulawright1554]

It is from a long leaf pine, and you are correct, it produces a resin in the heart of the pine when it dies and is decaying. It is also called Fat wood.

[@SandyD2022]

Great clean up. Merry Christmas to you and your family. I do miss the other Robert. He brought a bit of fun to the restoring and clean up. You two were so funny together.

[@Linney321]

I have enjoyed the entire series of the work on this cemetery. Thanks for bringing us along.

[@howardwest1347]

Robert you are amazing. What a work ethic you have and a passion for preserving history for such a young guy. We are so proud of you and the work you do. Hopefully it has spurred others to get involved also. Donna Michigan

[@dianadelahaye7660]

Amazing and interesting about the hard Pine. Nice job cleaning and finding graves

[@rosebayer114]

Merry Christmas to you and your family, Robert! Wishing you all the best in 2025! 😊

[@SondraD7676]

This is a big cemetery, as you have cleared the vegetation and walk around it really shows. Funny! I said, "yes, it hard, fat lighter," as you cut it and "I bet it smells good," as you sniffed and then talked about it. That is some good fire starter. You should take that with you, ha! You just said that too 😂! Dan could use it in his potbelly stove!! Drop by for a cozy convo and a video, a short at least. Great work! Interesting and I am tryna remember you and the Other Robert there. Thanks for your continued hardwork! Video, edit, etc! Dig the HCx T!!! 👍❣️👍❣️

[@THEOLDBYRDFARMVLOG]

Yes, it is amazing how much more expansive and tied together this place feels now. It didn’t seem like much when I started, but this was a pretty expansive “clean up” - revealing a lot of history. It has also given me a much needed break and going out there cutting sweet gum trees and listening to the traffic go by hidden by the woods - that kind of time can only be described as a type of warm and welcome therapy. Joy told me that she had not seen how overgrown this cemetery had become until she watched the video that Other Robert and I did there years ago. She began the clean up process after that. I really need to go back and look at that video, but you know. I don’t like watching my own old content, but others are welcome to it. 😉

[@SondraD7676]

​@@THEOLDBYRDFARMVLOGthat kind of time on video is warm and relaxing therapy for me as a viewer. The simple fact that you do this is such a positive and is so meaningful it is a warm comforting glow for me. I recall Joy saying that about the overgrowth. I also know she appreciates you working on it. Oh, believe me I'm gonna go look for the original. Btw I have many old favorites I have watch on both channels. ❣️

[@vickisawyer7405]

I saw The Other Robert in your previous Christmas video, but I didn't say Merry Christmas then, so Merry Christmas to you all and stay safe and warm!! Blessings from Whidbey Island, WA.

[@gailrockford8914]

God Bless you!

[@rustya.3858]

Merry Christmas, Robert and the rest of the Adventurers crew. Happy New Year!

[@alisamurphy5697]

Very interesting about that particular pine tree, I'd never heard of that. You find the neatest things to share with us. Merry Christmas, and a blessed new year!

[@RichTubbsOhio]

It's truly a great thing that you are doing to help preserve these grave sites. Bless you, Robert. And wishing you a Blessed, Safe and Merry Christmas!

[@cindys.9688]

A•MA•ZING!! It's looking really good out there. Before you started I didn't imagine the cemetery would be so big. It's very impressive now - seeing the size of it, as far as the eye can see pretty much, with more to be uncovered.😊

[@sheilam4964]

Merry Christmas everyone.

[@oldbroad7672]

Sounds like the sweet gum is the wisteria of the tree world.

[@KatefromOZ62-e5o]

That looks great.

[@MillerMeteor74]

I never heard that term, fatlighter, till I started hearing it in videos like this.

[@marcbrunson6986]

I love the tunes you pick for time lapse.

[@brendahogue5487]

Robert Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Robert working in the cementry

[@karenwright9123]

It looks very much better!

[@JessicaYoung-b7w]

You are the best to keep Doing what ur doing !!!! Thank u so much !!!! I’m a hiker we love lighter wood .. Yes sir very unique for sure and how it catches the chainsaw… :::))) Merry Christmas in Ga from Nashville

[@nancylitton390]

Wow!!!! What a difference!!! A little (hard) work can do. You are a blessing,Robert. Merry Christmas to you and yours.

[@debranelson1987]

That was a good description of the graves in this cemetery calling them like waves in the soil. I actually could see the graves when the camera was pointed at a distance.

[@THEOLDBYRDFARMVLOG]

That’s awesome!

[@katherineyanagihara2909]

Aloha 🌺 Robert! Good job! It looks so much better! 🌺🥰♥️

[@dsinavich5141]

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and family....... Deborah 🇨🇦. 🙏❤️🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄💚🎵

[@lucrom1097]

Fantastisch Good work Robert you te best te natuur istory te helpen best friend Top weekend Christmas 🌤️🚚☕🌳🧤🎽🧢😎🎧🎄🎁🥂✨

[@janecrist8406]

I wonder if you blew the leaves away how much better the graves and stone m in that be seen?

[@cindys.9688]

Oh goodness, I can only imagine!

[@barbie5697]

Oh I love the smell of fat wood! Haven’t smelled it in years. I wish we did have smellavision.❤ Maybe you could do a controlled burn off of all the leaves and pine needles? Or go back out with a team of leaf blowers 😅 Merry Christmas Robert. You’re a good boy!

[@selenelorenz1810]

Merry Christmas

[@GlenCannon239]

You can stop the sweetgums from coming back by using an old paint brush and undiluted Round-up on the stumps and it will kill them. Years ago, Fat lighter stumps used to be harvested after the timber was clear cut. It was used to get pitch and pine tar to make other products.

[@christineberry3076]

Are you gonna mark them for removal( trees)?

[@leekorten1791]

💞

[@101egals]

Hey Robert, you should take the trees you cut down and sell the wood as firewood and use the money to up keep the cemetery you clean up.

[@spicencens7725]

I was told that a pine that was struck by lightning that killed it, zapped the resin to rock hard is how fat wood came about. I dunno. Drill some 6-8" deep holes in the sweetgums, fill with epsom salt and add half as much water should kill the roots.

[@donnal.oglesby4806]

The Milner Cemetery is looking really beautiful, and comeing back to a peaceful life, with all those laid to rest there. Great that as you are cutting down worthless trees and clearing them from the cemetery, that you find another field stone to mark another grave! would be nice to either blow those leaves to one side of the cemetery or rake where the indentions are and mark those graves with a flag..

[@MarciaShackelford-st5bt]

Boy, I hope you are able to figure out that one busted slab situation! That looks like a real puzzler to me. Pretty sure no one has left you beautiful drawings and maps of this cemetery, like the record Cecil is making for the Hutchinson Cemetery. Enjoy your fat lighter and your Christmas 🎄 too!

[@matthewsorensen2147]

Can the leafs and pine needles be cleaned up and help prevent the graves buried

[@waynebender8835]

You thought about using a lawn vacuum to clean up all the loose leaves on the ground?

[@cathyorlowski1951]

My daddy always called them rich pine. The pine tree died when the sap was in the tree not just the roots. Usually in the spring when they are blooming

[@kennethwilliams41]

That pine😊 resin is the foundation of amber. Very flammable. Sappy pines will become "fat wood or fat lighter" as it dries.

[@robinschwab5172]

Drill a few holes in the stump and pour root killer in the stump.

[@williamchristy8123]

It been a long time since I was Boy Scout in the 1960's in Central Georgia area. We look for fat lighter for fire starter.

[@nancymoore3456]

Looks like you have some firewood for the old byrd farm have you heard about the new burial option where you can be cremated basically compost and put in a cemetery plot with your remains in the bulb of a tree of your choice

[@suzannesnyder2679]

You mean the cremated remains go in the tree’s root ball, right?

[@nancymoore3456]

@suzannesnyder2679 yes

[@suzannesnyder2679]

I think these green burials options such as like you describe are in specific areas that are wooded and have no vertical monuments.

[@nancymoore3456]

It was on a cincinnati news channel

[@eighmeeloo]

Has the Produce made more Robert² dolls? I would love to buy a pair! How is TOR?

[@tonyfernandez3337]

Robert MERRY Christmas great video and great job but man you need some help from another people For now keep up the good work 👏 and enjoy the Holidays

[@mustangdave434]

There stuff you can put on the stumps that supposed to kill the stumps and rot faster

[@matthewholzinger1042]

It's time for an industrial leaf blower and a really, REALLY big rake.

[@charlesjohnsjr.5809]

Might want to treat the sweet gum stumps with tree killer after you cut them.

[@nancystoutenburgh189]

How about purchasing a leaf blower? No fires.

[@Linda-bz1lu]

Get a powerful leaf blower!!!😊

[@garycousino]

You should add fat lighter to your store. Saw it up and split it and put it in a can. That sfuff would sell

[@tacocin]

Amazon actually sells fat lighter kindling sticks.

[@aprilbrock8061]

You need some little survey flags to mark those stones. And a bottle of tree killer to put on those saplings so they don’t continue to grow.

[@LucRom-kz5uw]

Fantastisch Good work Robert you te best te famey te helpen te natuur te History best fried Top week 🌳🧢🦺🧤🌤🧋🌿👍🚛🪤🪵🎄💥🎁

[@garycallahan7867]

If you dig up the pine stump and roots they will all be fat wood.

[@vickisawyer7405]

I forgot to ask, how is The Other Robert doing?

[@alanatolstad4824]

I generally have to use my imagination regarding the indentions in the soil, but that's OK. What bothers me is that I can't make my imagination work for how those old cemeteries looked in their active stage...bare soil? Grass? How were the markers chosen (in other words, were the stones carried in for each funeral), and clearly marked for placement of each burial? I'm one of those folks who appreciates an artist's rendition.---The timber of your voice changed when you started talking about the heart pine you discovered...sounded like Elvis standing over there!

[@Jullebulle1991]

Okay. I am super confused here. Is anyone else experiencing this? Your videos jumps in languages. No videos from other creators do that, only yours. They haven’t done that before. So I don’t if something is off in my settings or if it’s in your end. But I can only hear you speaking English for a few seconds before it jumps to other languages like Spanish, Portuguese and French. Languages I don’t understand.

[@HalfPint5811]

Ol gun powder tree

[@edwardcolley7226]

Fat wood

[@randallan8158]

You really need to rake up all the leaves. Who knows how many graves and headstones you'll be able to identify.

[@eighmeeloo]

Why don't you get a less blower to find graves

[@Hoss2024-l2b]

Hello Side step adventures 2.0 ...so long Old Byrd Farm . Well, it was a good run for many years, but it seems the last year or so he's lost the passion for it...

[@THEOLDBYRDFARMVLOG]

Tell me you didn’t listen to what I said on a previous video without telling me you didn’t listen to what I said.

[@THEOLDBYRDFARMVLOG]

And here’s what I said to you last time you commented something like this…. Like I said on the video, when I am have stuff to film there I will. Just not a whole lot going on at the moment and very tied up with side projects. And if I do not film and release videos on this channel, it will d i e plus as a content creator I can’t do these things without being able to film and release them.

[@THEOLDBYRDFARMVLOG]

And this has always been Sidestep Adventures 2.0 😂

[@Hoss2024-l2b]

@THEOLDBYRDFARMVLOG If a video isn't actually at the Byrd Farm, I didn't watch it. No worries, I won't be commenting anymore.

[@karenklucas923]

Cool info about the pine tree. 😊.love the clean ups you're doing..

[@furlvr1961]

Oh darn...🥺No hairy chest views today!

[@larrysmith6499]

Merry Christmas