You sir are impressive. It did not dawn on me that I could use a method like this to make pine tar in mass with the use of dead/spare wood. Thank you for bringing and sharing this knowledge to us!
Just to let you know. All i did was think about possibly watching a video about how to make pine tar and this was recommended the next day. I wish everyone would make a comment when this happens, maybe it'll bring light to the subject. Anywho, good video, thanks.
@@willsmith8586 Yes you are so right. A few years ago I was hoping people would engage more so the channel could grow. I sort of accepted the smallness of my channel after some time, its still fun to make videos. But the algoritm probably learn better if people engaged. Thank you.
I thought I was the only person that happened to. I know my phone listens to me and recommends accordingly, but I swear sometimes all I do is think of a subject and somehow my mind is read and the same subject is recommended to me the next time I start watching videos
@@gustavthane2233 ...more like the controlling agenda being shoved on us like a mudslide yet we just let it. There is tech out there that has been being perfected for well over a decade that can do just this. Implant suggestions, pick up your thought in some cases. Wifi in your homes is like sonar. It can track your movements in your own house. Smart meters keep track of your daily habits, now which appliances you are using and what times, etc... I think this is more of what the original commentor was getting at. If not...WELL YOU ALL SHOULD BE BRINGING AWARNESS TO THAT so we don't need this kind of knowledge very soon.
That sounds great, of course you should. From what I have heard the simplest way to do that is to use a bucket or Steel can. Anyway I am really happy to have inspired you, good luck with your tar. Please share some info if it is sucsessful.
Yeah, seeing the whole clip without skipping can be a bit long to some. But when it happens for real in the forest, time moves in a different way, a quite nice way.
It's a mix of resin, "caramelized" wood sap and smoke condensate. That makes it inhospitable to every micro organism known to man. It wasn't until modern chemistry invented some seriously nasty stuff (that probably shouldn't have been invented if you ask me) that better wood preservatives were found. This stuff adheres incredibly well (to everything, including people and their tools!), soaks several millimeters into the surface, is durable and smells incredible. The only down side is that it sakes weeks to fully cure, so it's sticky as frick for a long time.
Hi. Always wondered how stone age people produced sufficient amounts of tar. That is the solution. Thanks for showing. Greetings and Like from Germany, Chris
Tackar, ja vi får väl se, jag gillar att hantverka men är nog inte riktigt lika talangfull på att marknadsföra... men ju fler som gillar delar o kommenterar desto större chans... jag fortsätter göra ibland oavsett... men kanske lite mer sällan bara.
the method was perfect but if you use pine roots and the bowel of the trunk (the bit that goes in to the ground) they contain much much more tar than the trunk (the tree uses it to stop its roots rotting in the wet ground)
Smart! I wish he broke it down with words too tho.. Does this work with any "high sap" tree? I know there's multiple kinds of tar, and it's not quite what's used in roads. But it'll do in a pinch.. it's fun to learn
@@WeThePeople-7681 I did brake some of it down into words in the written description... at least in some of the videos. But my problem is that when I start to talk it never ends, I really admire people who makes quiet videos because of the kindness that is towards the audience who is not forced into someone else's mind but allowed to make up their own ideas from looking at my work. I do choose camera angles and such to make it as informative as possible though, and try not to forget any important step for the video. I have considered to start some sort of members platform to post videos of a more teaching character... but just now (and the next eight months or so) I try to finish a dissertation on blacksmithing at the university, and even if this sort of a forum is an excellent distraction a day like this, when I really need to write academic stuff, I really shouldn't. But if there will be a request for it, I might eventually post some other sort of format as well as these one´s.
@@ebeneezerporchus1068 Yes, perhaps... or a voiceover. I'm thinking about it. But it is difficult to know what people find confusing and not... don't want to overdo it either.
Also I've seen where you should have the wood laid out so that the ends of each piece of wood are pointed towards the center(i.e. perpendicular to the collection pipe).
@@davidpotts4368 ah, yeah. It really worked, but only until the flames were too hot to take out by blowing, when its warmer it risk making everything burn.
Yeah, the double can makes a bit more sense since it only produce the amount you want and does so from a limited effort, it was the only one I had done before this as well, if a barrel counts as a can… The problem with that method is that the tar is easily overheated in the process producing vast amounts of coal sot. That is what makes it so black. In the method used here, the tar is almost red-ish in its dark brown colour meaning it is purer… as in less coal in it.
I'm in Texas and my neighbor has a pine tree as straight as a telephone pole right on our property line. I drips onto our chain link fence and if you're not careful, you'll lean against it. That stuff won't come off with anything short of rocket fuel. It's easy to see how early man, having gotten some of that on his hands, got hip to the idea of using it for some kind of glue.
@@curtmanners1182 yeah, I'm thinking there are alot of great materials we tend to forget when we think of the stone age as the time they used stones for everything.
So the wood in the hole. Was?? Pine I guess? And was it set on fire. Or just smoldering under the pile of moss. And was there a hole for the first fire or is it to heat up the inside and not set the pine on fire
No, the first fire was just to put on the top of the pile. I made sure the wood became coal so I could make the pine stub pieces smolder under the moss in a controlled way. The reason I kept puting my hand in the smoke was to feel the temperure was low enough.
Rewatched this today again, what beautiful red tint it has, and I love the setup, too. I heard that this used to be a often practiced industry in Finland, too. Today I went into the woods and made some birch tar in the coffee can method. Sadly my yield ended up being just about a small shot's worth after hour and a half of tending to the fire, but it was nice to spend an afternoon outside, listening to woodpeckers and crows/rooks flying overhead. I love the smell of it, smells like fire and smoke...and of course the family absolutely hates it to the point of arguments, pah! What a way to ruin a man's joy of making something. :P How did applying it to the chest work? How long did it dry? And did you preheat it beforehand?
That sounds like an excellent use of your time, I mean it is not as much for the yield as for the time and experience of doing something of meaning. The chest turned out better than expected, but it took a whole winter for the tar to dry completely. Check out the video, I applied the tar warm, it made more sense at the time.
@@gustavthane2233 Thank you for the reply! It has been a nice afternoon, I just wish I remembered to pack a sausage or at least a potato to cook in the coals, hah! I am rather inspired by your chest, so after I figure out the next iteration of the bellows, that is the next project. Afterall, if I want a travelling smithy, having a toolchest sounds like a good idea, hah! Are you planning to make more videos by th way, come spring again?
@@Erikreaver I do have one more video that I never quite get the time to edit, but I hope yo get it done during the hollidays. Otherwise I am afraid it will be some time before I get to bring the camera ahain... but I am constantly planning and dreaming.
Gathered pinion pine pitch for some craft projects. Found it best to look at trees on hillsides where rocks had rolled down the hill and hit the tree, was big gobs of pitch on them.
What an incredible video, thank you. Does your tar have a smoky scent to it when made this way? How would you characterize the scent of what you made in this video? What do you think the average temperature of your kiln is here? Approximately 250 deg Celsius? What would the ideal temperature be? I made some tar, but it seemed to be dominated by a strong turpentine odor, but I was hoping for that beautiful Stockholm tar scent. Is there any way to do something to the tar I made to achieve a smoky scent? Sorry for all the questions. Bye the way, my tar was made with a homemade propane fired kiln combined with a miniature barrel method.
Ah ok, if I understand you correctly the miniature barrel method was a closed system? If so, you are getting all the sot from the process and the turpentine to stay in the tar, a black tar. My tar is reddish brown not quite black due to the smoke transporting much of the sot away. And the turpentine left in the tar separated as it cooled down so that I could pour it out as well. Yes it is a really nice smoky almost salty smell to it, a bit like smoked fish. I am not sure of the avrage temperature in the whole kiln, I do not think tar can even be produced below 300 degrees C. Perhaps ideal is 400-500? But the thing is that the whole kiln is not hot at the same time, only the part just above where the tar is produced. The way I judge temperature is to constantly feel the temperature of the smoke which is suppose to be around 50 degrees C.
Thanks for your feedback! Making pine tar really is an art and science, through and through. I'm still trying to fully understand the process, both the traditional way and the closed system way. Yes, my approach used a closed system, with the 'barrel' being a large coffee tin, sealed to a modified wok with clay, that served as the catchment basin to drain tar through a hole and into piping beneath. My overall understanding of tar making is that there are two types of tar produced from a closed system: 1) the high quality tar from the resin embedded in the 'fatwood', which is kind of gently 'melted' out of the wood as the channels that hold the resin in the wood expand and release that resin; and 2) the thinner blacker tar (almost like a bio oil) that gets produced when the lignin and cellulose fibers of the wood get heated above 300 deg celsius and release all sorts of compounds and vapors that then condense into a liquid. I believe this higher temperature tar has more vocs and hydrocarbons in it, along with acetic acid too. With my propane system, I tried to keep the temp around 250 deg Celsius, just high enough to coax the pure resin out of the wood, but not high enough to trigger the full on pyrolysis that produces the inferior black liquidy tar/bio oil. The only problem is that my low temp tar lacked any nice smoky scent, and had A LOT of turpentine mixed in. I'm just wondering if the pleasant smoky scent comes from the actual smoke from the smoldering 'shroud' of fatwood in a traditional kiln like yours? Or does your method simply have hotter temperatures for 'melting' out that fatwood resin, and those hotter temperatures change the resin in some way so that a smoky scent develops? And the reason you don't get the runny bio-oil like tar (from the wood fiber cellulose destruction at higher temps) is because all of those vapors get vented off through the top of your kiln? So many questions here. Thanks again for your reply, and any further insights.
Bye the way, the first jar of tar that came out of mine was a light brown (almost yellowy) turpentine heavy tar that was very opaque. In other words, the fatwood resin in its purest form. The 2nd and third jars were progressively more reddish darker brown with less turpentine. And zero smoky scent 🙁@@gustavthane2233
@@waver1731 well, I am not sure but I think it is suppose to change into the darker liquid, just not the thick black one, tar is not resin. Have you tried to make tar from birch bark? I have known since childhood how to make tar but never tried it this primitive before. Just before making this kiln I spoke to a friend who sat on the verry same information even thou none of us seem to remember where we got this knowledge. I guess it is just part of the common sence around here. But I do not know the chemistry behind it. As a master blacksmith I know a number of different hardening techniques and pressing a block of wood towards the back of a chisel until it carbonize the wood is one method to make it soft in a particular way. My knowledge about theory from that work suggest that wood turnes into carbon at 300 degrees, and the wood is allways turned into carbon when tar is produced, l have never heard about tar production without charcoal. I did ask around and had alot of additional knowledge back when I made this video but now it seems I only remember a fraction of it. Sorry I can not help you more.
Your knowledge and wisdom around this topic is incredibly impressive and very very helpful. Thank you again. I'm now convinced that with my initial tar yield in my first jar, only a small amount of pyrolysis is taking place at 250 Celsius, with most of the liquid simply being resin that seeps out of the wood because it becomes more fluid in the 220 to 250 Celsius heat. It's basically being sweated out. And it's not really tar yet, as you mentioned. I'm just getting the raw resin. In your technique, the resin also gets sweated out, but the higher temperatures will expose that resin to greater pyrolysis, resulting in more turpentine, water, etc., being evaporated off through the top of the kiln, thus making the tar darker and thinner, and of course more tar like (and of course a lot of other stuff surely happens at 300+ Celsius.) And I think the smoky aroma may come from the smoke that surely must be swirling around the inside of the kiln, while it waits to escape through an air hole. While that smoke is waiting its turn to escape, it must be infusing itself into the tar that is slowly seeping out, just before the tar makes its way down to the drainage channel. Either that, or there is some kind of chemical reaction that takes place in the resin when exposed to higher temperatures that causes the smoky scent. My hunch though is that it's the smoke from the smoldering 'fire' that is giving your tar the awesome aroma. And because my closed barrel technique is basically smokeless, no nice aroma happens. The only way I can test this theory is by placing a small closed can of the actual resin into my retort, and blasting it with 300+ C to see if anything changes. Of course I would have a small hole at the top of the tin, so that the emissions can escape into a primitive condensation system made up of pipes. These are the hypotheses I'm going with at the moment, but I find with the pursuit of tar making, my theories end up being wrong, and then I form a new theory, only to find that one was not fully correct in some way. Slowly but surely though, I seem to be getting there. I've never tried making birch tar, but after seeing a video last week, I'd love to try doing so. Here is a link to the video: th-cam.com/video/vWthHqsEsi0/w-d-xo.html The funnel the fellow made out of sheet metal is very cool. Thanks again for responding to my questions, and I might need to try your approach at some point. @@gustavthane2233
@@NomadMakes when it cooled down it separated naturally and I believe the clear liquid on the top was terpentine. But the twrpetine i did not pour off that first few days appears to have evaborated from the tar.
If you don’t mind modern tools, it’s pretty easy to make in a microwave. Be sure to use an old junky microwave and don’t let it get too hot because it can catch of fire. One good aspect of this method is that you can get nearly clear pitch.
@@gustavthane2233 Oh, my, I remember some pine resin flavored liquor from the Alps. Interesting stuff, but it was still difficult not to think of drinking Pinesol floor cleaner. And then there’s Greek Retsina wine, which gives the worst hangovers. But I don’t mean to discourage you on your explorations!
Yes, simply put, that is about it. When it started to rain I opened up all the airvents to keep the temperature up, but otherwise I started on the top and did not open the lower airvents until later. But it is not really suppose to burn but rather to char. It pushes out the tar and gas from the wood and leave the coal to be dug up later. One need to be careful not to burning up the tar. That is the reason I keep probing the temperature of the smoke, when it gets so warm that I burn myself, there is fire somewhere, meaning that I have got to lower the oxygen intake, close the vents. Check out part one too. I was less careful with the air flow in that attempt causing thicker and blacker tar, but also less tar. Most of that burned up.
In theory any sort of tree that is green during winter can deliver tar. In practice you will need wood as fat as possible. You can see in Part one th-cam.com/video/lq7H_je0VPY/w-d-xo.html how I collect roots due to their high resin content. Wounded trees and branch roots would also work. Just find out where the most resin is in the local pine trees and use that. The parts of a stump that is still hard after 30 years in the ground are bound to be filled with tar. Good luck.
Yes, that part underground is the best, but everything close to it is also okay. Here is a link for the part 1, where I dig up the wood for this tar: th-cam.com/video/lq7H_je0VPY/w-d-xo.htmlsi=pZLfuMvnwl6M2uZh
Since that's Birch bark it may be a light mixture of birch oil and pine. From what I've learned birch is more useful for wooden tool and furniture preservation as well as lamp oil
@@jabohabo3821 the ammount of birch bark in this mix is neglible, but I can see why birch would be preferred in furniture since it is brighter in color.
@gustavthane2233 and ofcourse negligible but it likely helped it to stay looser. If you add other oils to pine tar it works just as well. Plus that smell
Yeah I have asked myself the same thing, they speak about the stone ages but I am certain it would better have been described as the birch bark ages, such a versatile material.
@@noelhutchins7366 no part of the tree has more tar than the central root right beneeth rhe stub. It is particularly good 25 years after the tree was cut dowm. Check out part one. I collect the perfect pieces in that video. It is a video about how the setup was made.
For those of you who don't know, the reason why blowing on a fire can put a fire out is due to your breath lowering the temperature of the fire before the added oxygen can get it to burn hotter.
@@ryelor123 something like that yes... I would put it like this: fire without heat (coal) is just like a match, blow the flames away and the smoke loose its fire. Eventually when the smoke was too hot to smother this way it was time to cover it all up with a turf.
Yes, it is not water but turpentine; a valuable thinner that can be used for all sorts of stuff... it will evaporate within a week if you leave the tar in a container without a lid on. It will also solve into your tar if you heat it but it will separate as soon as it cools down. Yes it makes the tar harden really slow, but it hardens eventually. As far as I know that gives a more flexible tar surface that is also drawn deeper into the wood, less lacquer-like.
@@gustavthane2233 it wasnt flammable and I'm pretty sure turpentine is. I poured it out while mixing the tar at the same time and it was orange and smelled like the tar. The tar rn still hasnt hardened, I've been told to heat it up to evaporate everything out and it should be good, do you think this would work? Thank you for the help
@@darthanubis4204 Yes I had a lot of it to... but red as wine, not orange. Mine evaporated by itself within a week. Boiling tar is a common practice and it makes it thicker and useful for other purposes. I see no problem with doing that. Depending on the water content of your wood I guess some of the water may have mixed with the turpentine and tar.
Well the birch does nog give much tar at all when used like this, it is just there to guide the tar to the bottom groove. In birch tar the ammount and quality of bark is quite different.
I mainly did it for two reasons. I use it as wood preservation on the toolbox this playlist is all about. But also for purely academic reasons. I have known how it is done since I was young... but I never tried it. Now I have. To know is a different thing when doing it for real. Now I know.
Pine tar can be used for anything from mosquito repellent and Liquor flavouring to waterproofing and rust prevention, but I made this tar to coat the tool chest I was working on at the time.
Thank you for the input, but there is no log being "milked" here. The log is just a pipe transporting the tar into my bucket. The tar comes from the special sort of wood. Here is a longer video of my first attempt: th-cam.com/video/lq7H_je0VPY/w-d-xo.html I had no log there but alot of tar that I unfortuanally burned due to the poor pipe.
@gustavthane2233 my friend, they used a similar process but with coal. Watched a vid called "synthetic fuel, Germanys secret wonder weapon" earlier. Take care, thanks for the video :)
@@A3Kr0n umm, sounds healthy. I did taste the tar though. Smells alot better than it taste. Let me know how tar feels like from the enema when you've tried it.
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Great work! Would you say that it would also work to extract tar from birch bark?
Yes I would, from what I have heard that gives even yellower tar if produced properly. In Swedish we call pine tar "tjära" but birch bark tar is called "Ryssolja" directly translated into oil of Russians. It is a different product but smells the same and tastes better, from what I have been told... I have tasted syrup flavoured with birch bark tar and it was delicious. I have also tasted liquor flavoured with various concentrations of pine tar and it mainly tasted like chemicals smell, mixed with iron/blood.
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@@gustavthane2233 I have been experimenting with primitive methods to extract birch tar, but nothing gave me a sufficient yield. I do not want to take clay pots (they work pretty well), because pottery was not available for Neanderthals. Maybe I should try it with your kiln...
@ Yes I see, beautiful channel you have built. Birch bark can be rolled up into a really tight big roll, that way they become quite similar to a metal bucket. Before aluminium foil, bark was used fish was cocked in the ground, rolled up in birch bark. The key when making tar is to make the bark turn into coal as cold as possible, to heat without overheating. check out this guy: th-cam.com/video/vWthHqsEsi0/w-d-xo.html he is overheating but this method ought to be applicable with the sort of construction I did. Wood release its tar and become coal at around 330-400 degrees Celsius and I think bark is the same.
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@@gustavthane2233 thank you! This is a very reliable method for extracting birch tar. I hope I can transform it into a primitive method in the future.
I would say that the least chemical way of making it thinner is to heat it, hot tar is less viscous. But if you keep it boiling for long it will become thicker and thicker. But what is the problem with chemicals? I mean pine tar is natural but it is a chemical as well isn't it? In the production of tar a biproduct is turpentine, and I always thought of turpentine as a typical chemical.
Hello I am wanting to make pine tar to use on my horses feet I have 5-6 huge pines in my yard with lots of sap and resin oozing out of them plus plenty of dead stuff to work with This is amazing But I need a little simpler method and plus I'm in eastern WA. So I don't have the moss and dampness to work with ... Any suggestions ? I mean no offense I REALLY appreciate your skill and usefulness of what's been given to us Thanks
@@ajaywalia1649 Yes and it can also be used to make wood or textile water resistant. That is what I use it for this time. You can burn it in a torch. You can use it as glue to repair leaking birch bark containers and also to glue arrow heads on arrows for example. It is a verry good liquid that can be used for all sorts of things. I have even tasted alcohol flavoured with this thing (not healthy though).
Pine tar has a long storied history of being used in sailing vessels before people figured out how to use fossil fuel oil byproducts. . The best came from Sweden. Stockholm tar. Love the smell of it.
Dont read the comments!!! Just make the video however you think is best because you cant please everyone. Fact, you are making the content, not the people commenting. Youll never settle if you try to listen to other peoples opinions on your original content. Take it from a performing musician of 15 years.
@@Notforyou201 Yes sir! I will do precisely as you say... sir! 😉 Nah, just kidding. Sarcasm is so difficult in text like this... but you dont have to worry about me, I have been self employed for most of my life (and got kicked out of the army) for the simple reason that am unable to follow orders. But I appreciate your support. And I do find it interesting to find my voice in social media. Throughout that journey, I'll be happy for the tips, trix and experience that's out there.
well, some of the tar is destilled from the smoke but compared to moonshine it is not about concentrating the liquid but rather to get it out of the wood and to chemically change it... somehow. Too low a temperature and it is just resin pouring out and that is not good, to high and everything burns filling the tar with ashes and sot which is not good either.
@@bri525mag you are welcome to read the descrition if you are interested in learning more. I am thinking about how to make the video more pedagogical, but my focus this far has been on the experience, not the education. I hope I can find a functional middle way between the two soon.
@ it was a very good video but watching it i didnt have a clue what you were doing or why. I could have read the info but that spoils the vid if you need to keep going between the two. Keep the vids coming, they take me back to childhood, all the fun of camping out and fending for myself. Now at 70 the memories make me very happy and appreciative of the life i have had. No need for phones and internet , there was shit loads to do. Thanks again Brian
@@bri525mag ah, yeah. There is still shit loads to do... but hard to decide what to chose on the limited time and budget at hand. I'm glad it worked, that you felt the nature through the screen. That was the pupose.
Если надо много смолы и меньшими трудозатратами можно порезать ствол живой сосны до слоя где течёт смола и подставить воронку из бересты. Сделать таким образом несколько деревьев. Так добывали сосновую смолу позднее викингов. m.th-cam.com/video/eOAXg0-NFWY/w-d-xo.html&pp=ygUi0JTQvtCx0YvRh9CwINGB0LzQvtC70Ysg0YHQvtGB0L3Riw%3D%3D
Hej Gustav! Erik från steneby här, ville bara säga att det var en jättefin film! Vi gjorde tjära på gymnasiet men det var så länge sedan så jag minns knappt hur vi gjorde. Hur mycket tjära fick du ut? Såg ut som att det blev en hel del! 😊👍
Hej va kul. tänk att du hade så roligt gymnasium du. Va fint att du gillade den. Jo men jag fick ut ungefär 2 liter, jag behövde ju förstås inte mer än vad som täcker en verkygslåda men det är kul o ha. Får se om det blir nått mer gjort av det i framtiden... kanske tvål
@Travis k Here is an idea: why not order a chastity belt up off amazon? complete with the tar and everything, that way you won´t need to order up the tar to begin with. ah? ah? blows one´s mind does it?
Thanks for NOT including a bunch of "selfie stick face time" wherein you ramble on and on and pretend to be an actor and/or a comedian. it's REALLY sad how so many channels think that 1990's discovery channel shtick is the only way. On the otherhand; I'm guessing the entire sequence where the sheets of bark- wood were made was lost?
@@someguydino6770 you are welcome. Thak you for letting me know. Most people who comment ask for more talk. Actually, all that bark and woodwork is in part one. The video called something like 'making a wood kiln' on my channel.
But I do. Over 900 words. First i describe the context, that this is an old Swedish way of making tar, then I get into the hands-on method of what I did and then eventually a short section about the resulting tar... so yup 😀
Very cool stuff! I like your historical approach and dedication, using just simple hand tools! Real bushcraft!
Thank you, what can I say, I enjoy the challenge. I must say, your channel is cool too.
You sir are impressive. It did not dawn on me that I could use a method like this to make pine tar in mass with the use of dead/spare wood. Thank you for bringing and sharing this knowledge to us!
Thank you for letting me know, I appreciate it.
This kind of knowledge will always be useful.
It will, but I also believe we have some of this in our genes, the urge to live close to nature.
The second this guy pulled out a custom hat for his pine tar spigot, I knew he was the real deal.
This video was recommended to me by the algorithm, and it's the best video I've seen so far this year...
@@Thiscouldbeyou thank you, I appreciate you letting me know.
What a great video this is! Thank you for showing how it’s Done!!
Thank you for telling me, I appreciate it.
The roots and any damaged areas full of resin work the best for producing pitch.
Now that’s some mighty fine moon shine
Just to let you know. All i did was think about possibly watching a video about how to make pine tar and this was recommended the next day. I wish everyone would make a comment when this happens, maybe it'll bring light to the subject. Anywho, good video, thanks.
@@willsmith8586 Yes you are so right. A few years ago I was hoping people would engage more so the channel could grow. I sort of accepted the smallness of my channel after some time, its still fun to make videos. But the algoritm probably learn better if people engaged. Thank you.
I thought I was the only person that happened to. I know my phone listens to me and recommends accordingly, but I swear sometimes all I do is think of a subject and somehow my mind is read and the same subject is recommended to me the next time I start watching videos
@@jamiemiller8678 you know what they say, the algoritm know you better than you know yourself.
@@gustavthane2233 ...more like the controlling agenda being shoved on us like a mudslide yet we just let it.
There is tech out there that has been being perfected for well over a decade that can do just this. Implant suggestions, pick up your thought in some cases.
Wifi in your homes is like sonar. It can track your movements in your own house.
Smart meters keep track of your daily habits, now which appliances you are using and what times, etc...
I think this is more of what the original commentor was getting at.
If not...WELL YOU ALL SHOULD BE BRINGING AWARNESS TO THAT so we don't need this kind of knowledge very soon.
That’s some old school knowledge… I have open wondered how pine tar, turps, etc. was made back in the day.
Awesome job and kudos to you sir..!
@@Laval-59 thank you.
Love the sound of nature brother
Yeah, pouring water, singing birds and wind in the trees... and no mosquitoes.
It's videos like this that make youtube worth watching. Thanks.
@@cal4625 thank you.
I’ve seen it done with a big steel drum kettel but never like this nicely done man nicely done🎉
Great video. Im going to try and extract oil/tar from birch bark in the near future. This is inspirational
That sounds great, of course you should. From what I have heard the simplest way to do that is to use a bucket or Steel can. Anyway I am really happy to have inspired you, good luck with your tar. Please share some info if it is sucsessful.
👍 I learned a new interesting way to extract pine resin
Amazing! Thank you for this tutorial!
The wood in the roots and nearby areas is way richer in resin. If you use that part of the tree, you will get a better yield.
Thank you for the tip. Check out part one to see where I got the wood from. th-cam.com/video/lq7H_je0VPY/w-d-xo.htmlsi=ZUFeopalc0PcTVKz
Its a slow process, With the right heat in the chamber, the resin leaches out. wow, Very impressive.
Yeah, seeing the whole clip without skipping can be a bit long to some. But when it happens for real in the forest, time moves in a different way, a quite nice way.
It's a mix of resin, "caramelized" wood sap and smoke condensate. That makes it inhospitable to every micro organism known to man. It wasn't until modern chemistry invented some seriously nasty stuff (that probably shouldn't have been invented if you ask me) that better wood preservatives were found. This stuff adheres incredibly well (to everything, including people and their tools!), soaks several millimeters into the surface, is durable and smells incredible. The only down side is that it sakes weeks to fully cure, so it's sticky as frick for a long time.
Excellent method! Thanks
Outstanding! 🫡👍🏻
Thank you
Hi. Always wondered how stone age people produced sufficient amounts of tar. That is the solution. Thanks for showing. Greetings and Like from Germany, Chris
Häftig kanal! Fortsätt med det du gör. Du kommer definitivt se att kanalen kommer växa.
Tackar, ja vi får väl se, jag gillar att hantverka men är nog inte riktigt lika talangfull på att marknadsföra... men ju fler som gillar delar o kommenterar desto större chans... jag fortsätter göra ibland oavsett... men kanske lite mer sällan bara.
@@gustavthane2233jeg har abonneret. Dine videoer er flotte! Forstår ikke hvorfor din kanal stadig er så lille :(
Amazing video, I really enjoyed it, thank you.
Incredible. Very good work.
Thank you😃
the method was perfect but if you use pine roots and the bowel of the trunk (the bit that goes in to the ground) they contain much much more tar than the trunk (the tree uses it to stop its roots rotting in the wet ground)
Smart!
I wish he broke it down with words too tho..
Does this work with any "high sap" tree?
I know there's multiple kinds of tar, and it's not quite what's used in roads. But it'll do in a pinch.. it's fun to learn
@@WeThePeople-7681 I did brake some of it down into words in the written description... at least in some of the videos. But my problem is that when I start to talk it never ends, I really admire people who makes quiet videos because of the kindness that is towards the audience who is not forced into someone else's mind but allowed to make up their own ideas from looking at my work. I do choose camera angles and such to make it as informative as possible though, and try not to forget any important step for the video.
I have considered to start some sort of members platform to post videos of a more teaching character... but just now (and the next eight months or so) I try to finish a dissertation on blacksmithing at the university, and even if this sort of a forum is an excellent distraction a day like this, when I really need to write academic stuff, I really shouldn't. But if there will be a request for it, I might eventually post some other sort of format as well as these one´s.
Maybe some words on the screen to clarify what's going on in some places
@@ebeneezerporchus1068 Yes, perhaps... or a voiceover. I'm thinking about it. But it is difficult to know what people find confusing and not... don't want to overdo it either.
Also I've seen where you should have the wood laid out so that the ends of each piece of wood are pointed towards the center(i.e. perpendicular to the collection pipe).
Very nice and teaching. Just watching and getting benefit of peace ❤
Impressive video, a pot with some food inside with the wood will make an amazing meal after the tar it's collected,
Fantastic video, Thanks
Nice sweat it out loved the carburetor hole on the front to pull the fire forward and get all of it going
@@davidpotts4368 ah, yeah. It really worked, but only until the flames were too hot to take out by blowing, when its warmer it risk making everything burn.
Beautiful process
@@xJarosławKamiński it sure is. Such an experience to see how a material come to be... from a material that different.
I’ve never seen this method but looks like great product I’ve only used the double can method pitched in the fire
Yeah, the double can makes a bit more sense since it only produce the amount you want and does so from a limited effort, it was the only one I had done before this as well, if a barrel counts as a can… The problem with that method is that the tar is easily overheated in the process producing vast amounts of coal sot. That is what makes it so black. In the method used here, the tar is almost red-ish in its dark brown colour meaning it is purer… as in less coal in it.
GODLIKE, mr goode sent us :)
That was great 😃
@@SB-qm5wg thank you
I'm in Texas and my neighbor has a pine tree as straight as a telephone pole right on our property line.
I drips onto our chain link fence and if you're not careful, you'll lean against it.
That stuff won't come off with anything short of rocket fuel. It's easy to see how early man, having gotten some of that on his hands, got hip to the idea of using it for some kind of glue.
@@curtmanners1182 yeah, I'm thinking there are alot of great materials we tend to forget when we think of the stone age as the time they used stones for everything.
You have to wonder how they came up with this centuries ago.
Thanks for the education
👍
So the wood in the hole. Was?? Pine I guess? And was it set on fire. Or just smoldering under the pile of moss. And was there a hole for the first fire or is it to heat up the inside and not set the pine on fire
No, the first fire was just to put on the top of the pile. I made sure the wood became coal so I could make the pine stub pieces smolder under the moss in a controlled way. The reason I kept puting my hand in the smoke was to feel the temperure was low enough.
Rewatched this today again, what beautiful red tint it has, and I love the setup, too. I heard that this used to be a often practiced industry in Finland, too. Today I went into the woods and made some birch tar in the coffee can method. Sadly my yield ended up being just about a small shot's worth after hour and a half of tending to the fire, but it was nice to spend an afternoon outside, listening to woodpeckers and crows/rooks flying overhead. I love the smell of it, smells like fire and smoke...and of course the family absolutely hates it to the point of arguments, pah! What a way to ruin a man's joy of making something. :P How did applying it to the chest work? How long did it dry? And did you preheat it beforehand?
That sounds like an excellent use of your time, I mean it is not as much for the yield as for the time and experience of doing something of meaning.
The chest turned out better than expected, but it took a whole winter for the tar to dry completely. Check out the video, I applied the tar warm, it made more sense at the time.
@@gustavthane2233 Thank you for the reply! It has been a nice afternoon, I just wish I remembered to pack a sausage or at least a potato to cook in the coals, hah! I am rather inspired by your chest, so after I figure out the next iteration of the bellows, that is the next project. Afterall, if I want a travelling smithy, having a toolchest sounds like a good idea, hah! Are you planning to make more videos by th way, come spring again?
@@Erikreaver I do have one more video that I never quite get the time to edit, but I hope yo get it done during the hollidays. Otherwise I am afraid it will be some time before I get to bring the camera ahain... but I am constantly planning and dreaming.
Great video Brother!! Blessings 🙏♒️
@@mikeshem7665 thank you, I can use that.
Gathered pinion pine pitch for some craft projects. Found it best to look at trees on hillsides where rocks had rolled down the hill and hit the tree, was big gobs of pitch on them.
I just realized that tarring and feathering someone was a much larger 'screw you' statement than I thought due to how long tar takes to make.
Interesting reflection. I have thought of it that way... The really invested in making their point.
You had to really deserve it. It's been a long time since anyone's done it to a public servant around here and it shows.
@@dont.ripfuller6587 I'm all for reintroducing it.
It is something you have to plan ahead for.
It usually kills the recipient
Interesting video!
Thank you, yes tar is a fascinating thing to have, such a versitile material.
What an incredible video, thank you. Does your tar have a smoky scent to it when made this way? How would you characterize the scent of what you made in this video? What do you think the average temperature of your kiln is here? Approximately 250 deg Celsius? What would the ideal temperature be? I made some tar, but it seemed to be dominated by a strong turpentine odor, but I was hoping for that beautiful Stockholm tar scent. Is there any way to do something to the tar I made to achieve a smoky scent? Sorry for all the questions. Bye the way, my tar was made with a homemade propane fired kiln combined with a miniature barrel method.
Ah ok, if I understand you correctly the miniature barrel method was a closed system? If so, you are getting all the sot from the process and the turpentine to stay in the tar, a black tar. My tar is reddish brown not quite black due to the smoke transporting much of the sot away. And the turpentine left in the tar separated as it cooled down so that I could pour it out as well. Yes it is a really nice smoky almost salty smell to it, a bit like smoked fish. I am not sure of the avrage temperature in the whole kiln, I do not think tar can even be produced below 300 degrees C. Perhaps ideal is 400-500? But the thing is that the whole kiln is not hot at the same time, only the part just above where the tar is produced. The way I judge temperature is to constantly feel the temperature of the smoke which is suppose to be around 50 degrees C.
Thanks for your feedback! Making pine tar really is an art and science, through and through. I'm still trying to fully understand the process, both the traditional way and the closed system way. Yes, my approach used a closed system, with the 'barrel' being a large coffee tin, sealed to a modified wok with clay, that served as the catchment basin to drain tar through a hole and into piping beneath. My overall understanding of tar making is that there are two types of tar produced from a closed system: 1) the high quality tar from the resin embedded in the 'fatwood', which is kind of gently 'melted' out of the wood as the channels that hold the resin in the wood expand and release that resin; and 2) the thinner blacker tar (almost like a bio oil) that gets produced when the lignin and cellulose fibers of the wood get heated above 300 deg celsius and release all sorts of compounds and vapors that then condense into a liquid. I believe this higher temperature tar has more vocs and hydrocarbons in it, along with acetic acid too. With my propane system, I tried to keep the temp around 250 deg Celsius, just high enough to coax the pure resin out of the wood, but not high enough to trigger the full on pyrolysis that produces the inferior black liquidy tar/bio oil. The only problem is that my low temp tar lacked any nice smoky scent, and had A LOT of turpentine mixed in. I'm just wondering if the pleasant smoky scent comes from the actual smoke from the smoldering 'shroud' of fatwood in a traditional kiln like yours? Or does your method simply have hotter temperatures for 'melting' out that fatwood resin, and those hotter temperatures change the resin in some way so that a smoky scent develops? And the reason you don't get the runny bio-oil like tar (from the wood fiber cellulose destruction at higher temps) is because all of those vapors get vented off through the top of your kiln? So many questions here. Thanks again for your reply, and any further insights.
Bye the way, the first jar of tar that came out of mine was a light brown (almost yellowy) turpentine heavy tar that was very opaque. In other words, the fatwood resin in its purest form. The 2nd and third jars were progressively more reddish darker brown with less turpentine. And zero smoky scent 🙁@@gustavthane2233
@@waver1731 well, I am not sure but I think it is suppose to change into the darker liquid, just not the thick black one, tar is not resin. Have you tried to make tar from birch bark? I have known since childhood how to make tar but never tried it this primitive before. Just before making this kiln I spoke to a friend who sat on the verry same information even thou none of us seem to remember where we got this knowledge. I guess it is just part of the common sence around here. But I do not know the chemistry behind it. As a master blacksmith I know a number of different hardening techniques and pressing a block of wood towards the back of a chisel until it carbonize the wood is one method to make it soft in a particular way. My knowledge about theory from that work suggest that wood turnes into carbon at 300 degrees, and the wood is allways turned into carbon when tar is produced, l have never heard about tar production without charcoal. I did ask around and had alot of additional knowledge back when I made this video but now it seems I only remember a fraction of it. Sorry I can not help you more.
Your knowledge and wisdom around this topic is incredibly impressive and very very helpful. Thank you again. I'm now convinced that with my initial tar yield in my first jar, only a small amount of pyrolysis is taking place at 250 Celsius, with most of the liquid simply being resin that seeps out of the wood because it becomes more fluid in the 220 to 250 Celsius heat. It's basically being sweated out. And it's not really tar yet, as you mentioned. I'm just getting the raw resin. In your technique, the resin also gets sweated out, but the higher temperatures will expose that resin to greater pyrolysis, resulting in more turpentine, water, etc., being evaporated off through the top of the kiln, thus making the tar darker and thinner, and of course more tar like (and of course a lot of other stuff surely happens at 300+ Celsius.) And I think the smoky aroma may come from the smoke that surely must be swirling around the inside of the kiln, while it waits to escape through an air hole. While that smoke is waiting its turn to escape, it must be infusing itself into the tar that is slowly seeping out, just before the tar makes its way down to the drainage channel. Either that, or there is some kind of chemical reaction that takes place in the resin when exposed to higher temperatures that causes the smoky scent. My hunch though is that it's the smoke from the smoldering 'fire' that is giving your tar the awesome aroma. And because my closed barrel technique is basically smokeless, no nice aroma happens. The only way I can test this theory is by placing a small closed can of the actual resin into my retort, and blasting it with 300+ C to see if anything changes. Of course I would have a small hole at the top of the tin, so that the emissions can escape into a primitive condensation system made up of pipes. These are the hypotheses I'm going with at the moment, but I find with the pursuit of tar making, my theories end up being wrong, and then I form a new theory, only to find that one was not fully correct in some way. Slowly but surely though, I seem to be getting there.
I've never tried making birch tar, but after seeing a video last week, I'd love to try doing so. Here is a link to the video:
th-cam.com/video/vWthHqsEsi0/w-d-xo.html
The funnel the fellow made out of sheet metal is very cool. Thanks again for responding to my questions, and I might need to try your approach at some point. @@gustavthane2233
Cool project. Have you tried further refining the tar to terpentine and rosin?
@@NomadMakes when it cooled down it separated naturally and I believe the clear liquid on the top was terpentine. But the twrpetine i did not pour off that first few days appears to have evaborated from the tar.
Thank you
@@NordeggSonya thank you
So cool
If you don’t mind modern tools, it’s pretty easy to make in a microwave. Be sure to use an old junky microwave and don’t let it get too hot because it can catch of fire. One good aspect of this method is that you can get nearly clear pitch.
Interesting... I have been thinking of making clear pich as flavour for spirits... could be the way to go.
@@gustavthane2233 Oh, my, I remember some pine resin flavored liquor from the Alps. Interesting stuff, but it was still difficult not to think of drinking Pinesol floor cleaner. And then there’s Greek Retsina wine, which gives the worst hangovers. But I don’t mean to discourage you on your explorations!
awesome!
it's supposed to burn down slowly from the top right, without much air vents to over burn it but enough to keep the fire slowly going down ?
Yes, simply put, that is about it. When it started to rain I opened up all the airvents to keep the temperature up, but otherwise I started on the top and did not open the lower airvents until later. But it is not really suppose to burn but rather to char. It pushes out the tar and gas from the wood and leave the coal to be dug up later. One need to be careful not to burning up the tar. That is the reason I keep probing the temperature of the smoke, when it gets so warm that I burn myself, there is fire somewhere, meaning that I have got to lower the oxygen intake, close the vents.
Check out part one too. I was less careful with the air flow in that attempt causing thicker and blacker tar, but also less tar. Most of that burned up.
@@gustavthane2233 alright that cleared things up a bit, thanks alot for the answer ^^
We have all kinds of pine trees here in Alaska can this be done with most pine trees? Definitely want to try ;) thanks
In theory any sort of tree that is green during winter can deliver tar. In practice you will need wood as fat as possible. You can see in Part one th-cam.com/video/lq7H_je0VPY/w-d-xo.html how I collect roots due to their high resin content. Wounded trees and branch roots would also work. Just find out where the most resin is in the local pine trees and use that. The parts of a stump that is still hard after 30 years in the ground are bound to be filled with tar. Good luck.
Spruce trees? I'm also in alaska, kenai
I thought they always used the bit of the tree below ground. With old dead trees in bogs being totally loaded with pitch and other useful stuff.
Yes, that part underground is the best, but everything close to it is also okay. Here is a link for the part 1, where I dig up the wood for this tar: th-cam.com/video/lq7H_je0VPY/w-d-xo.htmlsi=pZLfuMvnwl6M2uZh
Since that's Birch bark it may be a light mixture of birch oil and pine. From what I've learned birch is more useful for wooden tool and furniture preservation as well as lamp oil
@@jabohabo3821 the ammount of birch bark in this mix is neglible, but I can see why birch would be preferred in furniture since it is brighter in color.
@@gustavthane2233 and a thinner material by comparison too
@gustavthane2233 and ofcourse negligible but it likely helped it to stay looser. If you add other oils to pine tar it works just as well. Plus that smell
@@jabohabo3821 yeah, the smell of tar...
@@gustavthane2233 pine tar smells good
Very informative. If you don't mindme asking, how much tar (in litres) did you get from this burn?
@@philsharp758 I think I wrote the number in the description... something less than two litres but I think it was more than one. Not super much.
@@gustavthane2233 Thank you for taking the time to reply. A fascinating method. All the best.
I can smell the bark tar in the distance... Damn that's manly
Greetings
Yeah, the smell...
That burning must reeeek the whole environment
Yeah, but tar is a sweet perfume.
The rolled up pants was a good touch, makes me want to get a Starbucks after pounding sone craft beers
Yeah, need to work with the details 😉
Same method for making charcoal but with catch bason? Cool!
Yeah, but also filled with fat wood and also burned from the top rather than bottom, otherwise the same.
Så häftigt! Jag vill göra hudkräm med tjära, jag har eksem.
Klart du ska göra. Tjära är ju bra till det messta.
Would it ve okay if i copied this idea but with birch instead? Id credit you
I´d be honoured. Of course you should. I have been planning a birch bark version as well but I never seem to get the time.
WOW!
Is there anything that can't be made from birch bark? That was just as impressive.
Yeah I have asked myself the same thing, they speak about the stone ages but I am certain it would better have been described as the birch bark ages, such a versatile material.
Xylitol can be extracted from birch. It's a sweetener. The sap is collected in the Spring and completely boiled down to the sugar.
why wouldn't you use the pine boughs instead of wood? they seem to have the most sap
@@noelhutchins7366 no part of the tree has more tar than the central root right beneeth rhe stub. It is particularly good 25 years after the tree was cut dowm. Check out part one. I collect the perfect pieces in that video. It is a video about how the setup was made.
Here is a link to part 1: th-cam.com/video/lq7H_je0VPY/w-d-xo.htmlsi=pZLfuMvnwl6M2uZh
For those of you who don't know, the reason why blowing on a fire can put a fire out is due to your breath lowering the temperature of the fire before the added oxygen can get it to burn hotter.
@@ryelor123 something like that yes... I would put it like this: fire without heat (coal) is just like a match, blow the flames away and the smoke loose its fire.
Eventually when the smoke was too hot to smother this way it was time to cover it all up with a turf.
My pine tar seems to have water in it and it wont harden(if it's supposed to) any help?
Yes, it is not water but turpentine; a valuable thinner that can be used for all sorts of stuff... it will evaporate within a week if you leave the tar in a container without a lid on. It will also solve into your tar if you heat it but it will separate as soon as it cools down. Yes it makes the tar harden really slow, but it hardens eventually. As far as I know that gives a more flexible tar surface that is also drawn deeper into the wood, less lacquer-like.
@@gustavthane2233 it wasnt flammable and I'm pretty sure turpentine is. I poured it out while mixing the tar at the same time and it was orange and smelled like the tar. The tar rn still hasnt hardened, I've been told to heat it up to evaporate everything out and it should be good, do you think this would work? Thank you for the help
@@darthanubis4204 Yes I had a lot of it to... but red as wine, not orange. Mine evaporated by itself within a week. Boiling tar is a common practice and it makes it thicker and useful for other purposes. I see no problem with doing that. Depending on the water content of your wood I guess some of the water may have mixed with the turpentine and tar.
Fascinating! I must try this at some point. How did you start the fire?
Don't remember... I think it was matches. To early in the morning to do anything fancy.
@@gustavthane2233 fair enough
Nice!
Thank you
Nice! This is better man! Perfect amount for my roof. But now you have to make a road lmao.
Im curious...why do you call it pine tar when you use birch bark? Is it a mix of pine and birch?
Well the birch does nog give much tar at all when used like this, it is just there to guide the tar to the bottom groove. In birch tar the ammount and quality of bark is quite different.
@@gustavthane2233 Oh ok. I was just wondering. Its something new that I am venturing in to. Appreciate you sharing your video.
what do you do with the Pine Tar? Why are you making it?
I mainly did it for two reasons. I use it as wood preservation on the toolbox this playlist is all about. But also for purely academic reasons. I have known how it is done since I was young... but I never tried it. Now I have. To know is a different thing when doing it for real. Now I know.
What uses has the pine tar for your purposes?
Pine tar can be used for anything from mosquito repellent and Liquor flavouring to waterproofing and rust prevention, but I made this tar to coat the tool chest I was working on at the time.
Instead of milking only one pine log, I suggest putting a couple next to each other, thus getting more tar :)
Thank you for the input, but there is no log being "milked" here. The log is just a pipe transporting the tar into my bucket. The tar comes from the special sort of wood. Here is a longer video of my first attempt: th-cam.com/video/lq7H_je0VPY/w-d-xo.html I had no log there but alot of tar that I unfortuanally burned due to the poor pipe.
This is a bushcraft version of what the germans did with wood to make fuel / plastics in WW2?
@@Marread ok, interesting. Fuel you say. An plastic... I did not know.
@gustavthane2233 my friend, they used a similar process but with coal. Watched a vid called "synthetic fuel, Germanys secret wonder weapon" earlier. Take care, thanks for the video :)
@@Marread thanks for the tip. I'll check it up.
You should give yourself a good healthy enema of your pine tar and let it sit for awhile so it can really soak in good.
@@A3Kr0n umm, sounds healthy. I did taste the tar though. Smells alot better than it taste. Let me know how tar feels like from the enema when you've tried it.
Great work! Would you say that it would also work to extract tar from birch bark?
Yes I would, from what I have heard that gives even yellower tar if produced properly. In Swedish we call pine tar "tjära" but birch bark tar is called "Ryssolja" directly translated into oil of Russians. It is a different product but smells the same and tastes better, from what I have been told... I have tasted syrup flavoured with birch bark tar and it was delicious. I have also tasted liquor flavoured with various concentrations of pine tar and it mainly tasted like chemicals smell, mixed with iron/blood.
@@gustavthane2233 I have been experimenting with primitive methods to extract birch tar, but nothing gave me a sufficient yield. I do not want to take clay pots (they work pretty well), because pottery was not available for Neanderthals. Maybe I should try it with your kiln...
@ Yes I see, beautiful channel you have built. Birch bark can be rolled up into a really tight big roll, that way they become quite similar to a metal bucket. Before aluminium foil, bark was used fish was cocked in the ground, rolled up in birch bark. The key when making tar is to make the bark turn into coal as cold as possible, to heat without overheating. check out this guy: th-cam.com/video/vWthHqsEsi0/w-d-xo.html he is overheating but this method ought to be applicable with the sort of construction I did. Wood release its tar and become coal at around 330-400 degrees Celsius and I think bark is the same.
@@gustavthane2233 thank you! This is a very reliable method for extracting birch tar. I hope I can transform it into a primitive method in the future.
@ yes, that Will be integrering to see. Good luck
Is there a non chemical way to make the pine tar thinner?
I would say that the least chemical way of making it thinner is to heat it, hot tar is less viscous. But if you keep it boiling for long it will become thicker and thicker. But what is the problem with chemicals? I mean pine tar is natural but it is a chemical as well isn't it? In the production of tar a biproduct is turpentine, and I always thought of turpentine as a typical chemical.
What kind of wood did you use?
It is pine root.
Hello
I am wanting to make pine tar to use on my horses feet
I have 5-6 huge pines in my yard with lots of sap and resin oozing out of them plus plenty of dead stuff to work with
This is amazing
But I need a little simpler method and plus I'm in eastern WA. So I don't have the moss and dampness to work with ...
Any suggestions ?
I mean no offense
I REALLY appreciate your skill and usefulness of what's been given to us
Thanks
Hello my friend, I am a new subscriber. Extract this thing. What is it used for? I want to know more about it
I know you can use pine tar in homemade soaps
@@ajaywalia1649 Yes and it can also be used to make wood or textile water resistant. That is what I use it for this time. You can burn it in a torch. You can use it as glue to repair leaking birch bark containers and also to glue arrow heads on arrows for example. It is a verry good liquid that can be used for all sorts of things. I have even tasted alcohol flavoured with this thing (not healthy though).
Pine tar has a long storied history of being used in sailing vessels before people figured out how to use fossil fuel oil byproducts. . The best came from Sweden. Stockholm tar.
Love the smell of it.
Dont read the comments!!! Just make the video however you think is best because you cant please everyone. Fact, you are making the content, not the people commenting. Youll never settle if you try to listen to other peoples opinions on your original content. Take it from a performing musician of 15 years.
@@Notforyou201 Yes sir! I will do precisely as you say... sir! 😉
Nah, just kidding. Sarcasm is so difficult in text like this... but you dont have to worry about me, I have been self employed for most of my life (and got kicked out of the army) for the simple reason that am unable to follow orders.
But I appreciate your support. And I do find it interesting to find my voice in social media. Throughout that journey, I'll be happy for the tips, trix and experience that's out there.
So basically it’s a primitive distillation process?
well, some of the tar is destilled from the smoke but compared to moonshine it is not about concentrating the liquid but rather to get it out of the wood and to chemically change it... somehow. Too low a temperature and it is just resin pouring out and that is not good, to high and everything burns filling the tar with ashes and sot which is not good either.
I can't believe I'm watching a guy with a man bun burn dirt
@@shaunsmith9801 Oh my young padawan, so much to learn, you still have.
Check this one out though, where the bun goes into the work. th-cam.com/video/1SQonceri4w/w-d-xo.htmlsi=IaPlFRf-7PUvpwWj
Pretty to watch but not much use if you dont know what your doing and why.
@@bri525mag you are welcome to read the descrition if you are interested in learning more. I am thinking about how to make the video more pedagogical, but my focus this far has been on the experience, not the education. I hope I can find a functional middle way between the two soon.
@ it was a very good video but watching it i didnt have a clue what you were doing or why.
I could have read the info but that spoils the vid if you need to keep going between the two.
Keep the vids coming, they take me back to childhood, all the fun of camping out and fending for myself.
Now at 70 the memories make me very happy and appreciative of the life i have had.
No need for phones and internet , there was shit loads to do.
Thanks again
Brian
@@bri525mag ah, yeah. There is still shit loads to do... but hard to decide what to chose on the limited time and budget at hand. I'm glad it worked, that you felt the nature through the screen. That was the pupose.
Is this a guess work video?.😮
@@andrewpeters3424 you guess, is it?
Если надо много смолы и меньшими трудозатратами можно порезать ствол живой сосны до слоя где течёт смола и подставить воронку из бересты. Сделать таким образом несколько деревьев. Так добывали сосновую смолу позднее викингов. m.th-cam.com/video/eOAXg0-NFWY/w-d-xo.html&pp=ygUi0JTQvtCx0YvRh9CwINGB0LzQvtC70Ysg0YHQvtGB0L3Riw%3D%3D
Ah yes I did that some time ago but I did not get as much as I thought, it must have been the wrong time of the year or something.
Hej Gustav! Erik från steneby här, ville bara säga att det var en jättefin film! Vi gjorde tjära på gymnasiet men det var så länge sedan så jag minns knappt hur vi gjorde. Hur mycket tjära fick du ut? Såg ut som att det blev en hel del! 😊👍
Hej va kul. tänk att du hade så roligt gymnasium du. Va fint att du gillade den. Jo men jag fick ut ungefär 2 liter, jag behövde ju förstås inte mer än vad som täcker en verkygslåda men det är kul o ha. Får se om det blir nått mer gjort av det i framtiden... kanske tvål
Hm... yup. That looks like Sweden alright.
@@PackthatcameBack Sure is, 🫡
Looks similar to making charcoal.
Yes, it's the same process... only with a gutter in the bottom to collect the residues, and selected fat wood.
Shit, I will just order some up off amazon.
yeah, sounds simpler... what will you use it for?
@@gustavthane2233 Is for my old ladies chastity belt.
@Travis k Here is an idea: why not order a chastity belt up off amazon? complete with the tar and everything, that way you won´t need to order up the tar to begin with. ah? ah? blows one´s mind does it?
He's getting hold of pinehart's fat lighter and turning it into pintar
Thanks for NOT including a bunch of "selfie stick face time" wherein you ramble on and on and pretend to be an actor and/or a comedian. it's REALLY sad how so many channels think that 1990's discovery channel shtick is the only way.
On the otherhand; I'm guessing the entire sequence where the sheets of bark- wood were made was lost?
@@someguydino6770 you are welcome. Thak you for letting me know. Most people who comment ask for more talk. Actually, all that bark and woodwork is in part one. The video called something like 'making a wood kiln' on my channel.
As Gen x I love this stuff it has a 1000 uses in craft, but the Millennials are probably asking is it gluten free.
"Wahhhh im better than the younger generations waaahhhhh look at me im so tough"
Generation x never had to struggle I always had mommy and daddy to bail them out
Haha! Well as a Milenial I must say I'm ok with almost anything exept outright canibalism!
.....And beeing mean to kittens and puppies and Spraycans!
Stop shaming another generation. Everyone’s time is different.
Troll account trying to create conflict where there is none.
You don't explain anything. Why or what reason to the method..... so nope!
But I do. Over 900 words. First i describe the context, that this is an old Swedish way of making tar, then I get into the hands-on method of what I did and then eventually a short section about the resulting tar... so yup 😀
It isn’t very educational, didn’t learn anything really. I think you need to explain what’s going on.
@@OliverCampbell-f6x ok, I'll try that in the future.
That burning must reeeek the whole environment
That burning must reeeek the whole environment