I turned 63 last July. When I grow up, I want to be just like you. You truly are the man.

@r1nz415

2 жыл бұрын

Grow up?

@yayo3187

2 жыл бұрын

@@r1nz415 that was the joke

@pequotatlatl

Жыл бұрын

Not too late yet, brotha

@rioteur6945

Жыл бұрын

@@r1nz415 n'm'occupe con BBC

@bariyo1

9 ай бұрын

I love yu

I had not realized until your presentation, your recipe for pitch is basically a carbon fiber composite material. Very, very cool.

@beans1557

9 ай бұрын

Holy shit I never even thought of that- yeah-

@mookfaru835

Ай бұрын

No fibers, it’s carbon powder.

Kia Ora Ryan, I have been watching your videos with my 5 year old son. We love your content. We live a simple life in Aotearoa NZ. We home school our kids and you are a fantastic teacher. We struggle to find the right rocks for knapping but we're going to try and heat treat some of our local jasper and learn together. Our goal is to make him his first knife. Thanks again mate.

@yuiopoli9601

Ай бұрын

Are there attempts to ban homeschooling in NZ?

Left over sticks etc from original pine pitch nuggets are likely a wonderful fire starter accelerant? Could come in handy during a large rain storm.

@Dav624

Ай бұрын

Absolutely but its very commonly found in pine forests so why bother collecting it unless u plan on moving somewhere else than there is no point collecting

@michaelpcooksey5096

Ай бұрын

@@Dav624 Emergency situations need prep. Even Ozi the iceman had his fire starting kit. Putting a little natural fire accelerant along with birch bark etc, speeds the process of warmth ... and protection from carnivores.

@Dav624

Ай бұрын

@@michaelpcooksey5096 yeah like I said unless ur going into the icy mountains or cold places where there are no pines there is no need to collect it if ur not planning on leaving pine forests

@michaelpcooksey5096

Ай бұрын

@@Dav624 Well ... if caught in an unexpected situation when time is critical ... [already in 1st stage of hypothermia] ... one would not have the time to browse the forrest. Thank you for the comeback.

I did a 23and me and they found I have 40percent more Neanderthal ancestry than most of the population that was studied. From my Italian ancestors. Wich explains a lot. I have always been mesmerized by your videos and felt a certain "itching" inside while watching these videos. I have started making a self bow and found that I can just do it for hours despite blisters and the blood I out into the wood lol . I know who cares , but I felt I should share it .

@croft5941

Жыл бұрын

No

@matthewsrevenge7177

Жыл бұрын

That itch has nothing to do with your neanderthal ancestry. That's absurd.

@sagewilson1056

Жыл бұрын

Same. I have always felt I was born in the wrong time. I really feel best outdoors, intuitively able to identify the resources around me. I often feel I would have been happier in the 15 or 1600's, pre colonization.

@a-a-rondavis9438

3 ай бұрын

Neanderthal, lol. That's a made up term by "scientists" and weirdo coping atheists.

@limejuiceconcentrate

2 ай бұрын

​@@sagewilson1056alas, no modern medicine equals early death

Super cool that you hunt with what you make

I'm glad I re-watched instead of just asking questions. I'm fixing to make some cave-man glue and now know I need two types and will render some deer tallow down. I've heard bear fat is best but haven't harvested a bear ... yet. It's early spring and my nettles are dormate but I'm going to check see if any fiber survived. We had the mildest winter in my memory. Which is longer than I like to think about. Good info.

If you have problems removing sticky sap, desinfect your hands with the allaround hand desinfecters. Pine sap is water resistend (doh, it's the band aid of a tree and it's sometimes raining outside...) so you can use alcohol to get rid of it :)

@croft5941

Жыл бұрын

No

@davidcampbell2661

4 ай бұрын

Turpentine should work

I have to say… One of the very few men I actually enjoy teaching this stuff. It is a bit tricky to find guys whose overly „manly“ delivery does not put me off immediately. 😅 Thank you for this very informative video! I really like the details you give about what do add to find the right mixture! Subscribed!

Great instructional video Ryan, I learned something new re the addition of an animal fat. My only experience with making pine pitch glue centered around what I was told is the traditional recipe, that being pine sap, charcoal, and dried rabbit droppings.

I'm trying to understand what kind of person has to dislike videos like this. Two people watched it and felt like they had to thumbs down? Wth?

@karlvanmuller1947

2 жыл бұрын

Haters gonna hate. It's that simple.

Hadca locust bow that I had steamed the tips for reflex. Ended up lifting the wood fibers off the belly. Back of the bow was still good. Fellow suggested pine pitch glue and a sinew wrap. So far so good. It's useful stuff.

Love this recipe and i'll be trying it soon. I've made it so many ways thru the years and this looks good. One thing I do is to powder my hands with charcoal when I'm working with it to keep it from sticking to me. Its like making dough with flour and we add a little dry flour to keep it from sticking to us. Just thought it mite help.

@jimmyrustler8983

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for that! 👍

You're doing some really good work lately, and so consistently 👍 I love it!

Thanks for the practical tips for non-standard units along with the basic instructions. Very informative!

Loved the valuable lesson and information.

Wow where have you been all my life….love this stuff. Thanks

Very thorough presentation. Thanks.

I truly like that chared cordage add on. Makes good sense when you compared it to fiberglass. Thank you.

Thanks for the tips and knowhows for all that you do

Great video, Ryan. I bet those leftover bark chunks would make fantastic fire starter.

Great recipe for perfect glue use for multi-purpose projects

Well done and excellent information.

Excellent tutorial Sir

Looks scrumptious

Never used it as glue but I've made fire starter from it I Mic it with sawdust and start forming it around a cotton ball. Easy to light with a Ferro rod

@croft5941

Жыл бұрын

No

Excellent lesson. Thank you.

Osage shavings make good fire starter. Love your videos .

Bloody hell! Well I live and learn. Really well done on explaining how you do that. Thank you very much. A very inspirational video. 🙏👏👏😊

Yep, I think I got it. We'll see though because I've got all the ingredients on hand. Thanks Ryan!

Thanks for the video!

This is really good to see. I wondered why my pitch glue was not very good. I used wood charcoal. I would think that bamboo charcoal would do just as well, as we don’t have Yukka downunda. 😉👍

@dragoscoco2173

2 жыл бұрын

Any plant fiber would do the job. Generally a resilient one, but after charring that resilience is not to be found anyway. The main point of it is to get char in the fibrous version. So jute, hemp, sisal, nettles are great contenders, but cotton or basically dried grass should also work just as fine. While not really sure as to why fibrous would work better I suppose it has something to do with the way hard pine pitch fractures and the added char would impose fracturing end points and stop propagation and going around lines is harder than going through points when a fracture plane develops.

@jimmyrustler8983

2 жыл бұрын

@@dragoscoco2173 Dried sawgrass or bullrush leaves are very good. 👍

@rexmagi4606

Жыл бұрын

For high desert environment I'm thinking of using charred juniper bark since they are common and the bark is long and stringy.

@garethbaus5471

Жыл бұрын

​@@rexmagi4606 Yucca grows in some high mountain desert environments. It doesn't need much water and some verities found as high as 8500 feet. It is also known as soapweed or soap plant, technically Joshua trees are a type of yucca.

@garethbaus5471

Жыл бұрын

Yucca isn't native to Australia, but it is a common ornamental plant that is well suited to the climate and can sometimes be found in the wild since it spreads fairly easily.

badass. definitely gonna use this.

Thank you for Sharing!

Thank you

I love your channel bro

Thank You.

Thank you.

There wouw,amazing pitch

Love it

Thank you Brother

Good information

fabulous

Hi Ryan, I really enjoy your video's! What are your opinions on adding pine or birch bark tar to the mixture? What is the effect and how much should be added? Greetings from the Netherlands

Pine pitch can hold fine objects for polishing and grinding aswell

I used that method and got amazingly good results. I used it to glue a flint spearhead to a shaft. Then i just secured it with thin paracord. I got myself a prety good spear

Hey Ryan, 2 questions: 1. Where is the best place to look for the hard resin nuggets? Roots, knots in the tree? Dead or alive? 2. Can you reheat and cool the pitch an unlimited numbers of time? Or does the tempers weaken the pitch over time? Also, using the shell as a small bowl is a practical trick I never thought of. Definitely going to use this in ten future! Great video!

@Dav624

10 ай бұрын

I dont know about the first question but the secone one?Well u can reheat it only for as long as it still exists and it won't weaken anything but the thing is while heating this glue u lose some of it because some of it just evaporates from the heat so yeah everytime u use it u lose some of it in the smoke but that's usually unnoticeable amount that ur gonna end up losing anyway it's like silicone glue it can get weak when heated but strong when cooled down there is no difference to the Quality of the glue by heating it over and over again and again u just lose some of it if u do that process too many times without applying the glue to anything and just letting it dry in ur container hope this helps

Saludos desde México

Primitive carbon fiber resin! love the video!

Great vlog! Where do I find those pine sap nuggets? Base of a pine tree? Thanks for posting.

Like fiberd asphalt sealer the fibers innertwine together While its still hot or warm .

Love this video! Would rendered lard or beef fat work?

I hope to see you one day and gain your wisdom sometime along the journey of Valhalla

Awesome video. Have you though about doing a primative pottery video?

Sold!

@HuntPrimative How do you make pottery like you do? And dude, you are awesome

Just FYI there are many species of bees native to North America that produce wax and even honey (including bumble bees) it's just that none of them are any where near as proficient as the African or European honey bee and thus are not suitable for domestication. But bees wax was absolutely available to primitive north Americans.

Thank you for this. I'm trying to get more primitive

How did you fire your pottery? Would be a cool video

Excellent video. Could you use lard instead of bear grease for this?

@ZyonSigil

2 жыл бұрын

I dont see why you couldn't

I know this has nothing to do with the pitch glue but your hunting points how thin are they. I would think they would be thicker than most knapper try to do because they are not for show they are for hunting. And most artifacts I have seen are way more thicker than what is done today. Thanks for all you knowledge you share with us.

Hi Ryan, thank you for this excellent video. Would you know of any alternative for the yucca that I could find in the North-East? You said nettle? Like stinging nettle? That must be hard to collect, no ?

@crazyjellybean5259

4 ай бұрын

Only the leaves on Nettles will sting, in case that's why you thought it'd be hard to collect.

Can you buy the pine resin that goes into making pine pitch, or is the resin crystals different from naturally occurring sap?

The "Slag" that's left after the filtering of your pitch, how does that work for tinder or accelerate for fires?

@justsomeguywithaboomerang1891

2 жыл бұрын

You just light it

I’ll try the charred cordage next time I make pine pitch glue. Still gonna use deer droppings though. Will also add some animal fat.

In south central tx , pine trees aren’t real abundant, but I have seen hardened mesquite resin on mesquite trees . Wonder if that would work ?

Nice video. I got 40 acres in the Great Basin that I like to do wildyness things at. Question for you about the fat/grease: Is there any plant-based ingredient that could be used? For instance, if I was dropped into the wild and needed to make this from scratch, I wouldn't be able to kill the bear for the grease prior to making the bear killing weapon. I know it's kind of ridiculous, but I'm more or less just wondering if something like pine nut butter (since pinions are common in the Basin) would work for making it less brittle?

@clueless4085

Жыл бұрын

Beeswax is a pretty good alternative in my experience.

Whenever I make mind I also put a little bit of ashes in and it turns out all right but it's nowhere near like what you have there and instead of the chard rope I grind up Cow Patties really dry Cow Patties and it comes out okay but nothing nowhere near like what you got maybe I need to either use some animal fat or maybe try some beeswax which I have some of that. But you are right you have to experiment until you get the right consistency I'm going to try what you did with the charred rope and animal fat and see if it comes out better. Of course it's like cooking anything you've got to have the right recipe and you say that you do yours by eye well that's about the only way you can do it. I just watched your video on sinew glue and I can't wait till I get me some send sinew. Have a great day and stay safe and keep your powder dry!

Pov: you Made Home made Burnt Black glue stick Also imagine this guy made a wilderness glue gun imagine

@mr.tiddles556

2 жыл бұрын

Why do you hurt me this way?

@EgressEvergreen

2 жыл бұрын

@@mr.tiddles556 Idk

I know you can use pine sap to seal up an open wound like you would with crazy glue. My question is can I use this method or would you suggest straight up pine sap? Thoughts?

I can’t find this on your website. Would love to get some

Is there a substitute I could use for the animal grease?

Is there a way you could keep it in a softer state to use more like a bandaid on demand?

I can't be the only one who would have rather spent my day to day time living in nature and making what I need when I need it than living the modern life of excess. I wish I could afford to buy enough land to homestead. I can't wait to get out of the city.

Surely adding animal grease will affect the adhesive properties of the glue or resin /pine pitch glue ?

Hey bub im makeing a longbow an do I put the inside wood on the belly or on the back an I thank it's hickory i just don't want to brake it trying to use the hard part on the rong side ?

If this has fiberglass like qualities, could you use it to laminate a bow? Or does it not have enough flexibility when it's dry?

You can use dry deer drops also instead of charred yucca cordage.

Birchbark canoes' stitching was sealed with essentially the same exact thing.

where im in in the PNW i cant find much yucca readily available will black berry cordage work?

Hi Ryan, I love your videos! I was curious if you think that spruce resin would work instead of pine resin?

@dragoscoco2173

2 жыл бұрын

Most conifers have identical resins and after boiling off the volatiles they should result in pine pitch territory. The main part of pine resin is some chemical called abietic acid, which gives it it's stickiness, mixed with turpentine volatiles that make resin soft.

Is charred Jute twine a good substitute if there is no access to yucca?

@Barack_Osama

2 жыл бұрын

I would think so

@jimmyrustler8983

2 жыл бұрын

Dried nettle stems will work too.

could we use the carbon from firewood to make it black vs the charred cordage?

I was going to ask if you could use it to bind wounds, but I suppose with the charred rope fibers that would be a bad idea. So what do you recommend for closing wounds?

@megabytes6434

2 жыл бұрын

I believe you use just the rendered sap with no additives

@zavas69

Жыл бұрын

cedar resin does the job! I guess pine's would work as well. you'll have to search for freshly wounded trees where resin is still liquid

@zavas69

Жыл бұрын

well maybe sap is the right word for it...

If it's a pre-pottery society, what would you use? Stone bowl instead? Drilling through a stone bowl probably takes hours, but maybe it lasts forever. Or wood bowl?

@abadodo8468

2 жыл бұрын

Soapstone, maybe?

@dragoscoco2173

2 жыл бұрын

The top of the skull of an enemy perhaps.

Hello! Do you have a general ratio of ingredients?

I'm thinking about using pine pitch as pipe dope for a shallow well. I can't think of anything else to use, I'm not a fan of drinking teflon so I'm not going that route.

Buddy made primitive carbon fiber glue! Amazing

Where do you get your knapping stones? Do you find them or do you buy them? Do you have any tips for finding or buying stones for someone who lives in Central Illinois?

@nonprooutdoorsandmore2303

2 жыл бұрын

He has a website for everything, good quality cuz I ordered 25 lbs of mixed stones, Gills primitive archery

@jacksepticeye_fan084

2 жыл бұрын

@@nonprooutdoorsandmore2303 yeah I knew about that, but I meant where does *he himself* get his stones.

@nonprooutdoorsandmore2303

2 жыл бұрын

Ah I see I apologize

I've made this deer tallow before, it was better than the usual cat tail or sawdust i use for binders..

can hemp rope be used, and lard?

Liked and subscribed. And TWO questions: 1) any good alternatives to fat? Meaning, if I don't have an animal for fat, or access to beeswax, have you found anything else that works? 2) What is the drawback in using pitch that is soft and runny to begin with, rather than the hard lumps? Thank you.

@nullsnaggle5198

Жыл бұрын

1 you can probably just use vegetable oil 2 absolutely no idea

Where do you find the nuggets?

Whats the verdict on pine root cordage for charring

Any clue what I could use to make pitch in SE Florida? I've never seen a clump of sap in my nearly 50 yrs here.

What kind of grease? Will bacon grease work?

Just got home from harvesting pine resin, having a snack then I'm going to process it and seperate the bark and what not

Have you thought maybe experimenting with mixing a combination of The fresh green Pine sap With the Harden seasoned pine Sap? Although that over time would become hardened as It cured

Have you ever thought about applying to be on the show Alone on the History Channel?

What is yukka cordage, what else can be used in it's place