Thank you so much for this. I live on 11 acres of mostly an old growth pine forest. Lots of downed pines, and this is a great weekend project for me to tackle. I appreciate your work to make this video!

Dig out the roots and bole. That's where the really fatwood is found. You should fill the container with fatwood and seal the top before building the fire. I have been digging up pine boles and making pine tar for at least 50 years. .

@matlilly8795

5 жыл бұрын

What a great tip.

@krisalaska

5 жыл бұрын

Great Idea! I have a bunch of these on my property.

@langrichar

5 жыл бұрын

WHAT DO YOU USE IT FOR ?

@freddavis6772

4 жыл бұрын

Is this your contact still David? I would like to ask questions😀

@sprayscience

4 жыл бұрын

If you got some pine tar you made I'm interested in buying some from you.

In Carolina, it was used to waterproof the canvas tops and wagon covers with. The British had a place set up in New Salem NC called "Tory Pond". Its on some old maps. They dug pits, filled them with what was referred to as "lighter knot stumps". A lower pit was used to collect the product.

I had done a lot of reading about how they made wooden boats back in the day, and the ropes and knots they used.. The term "Pine Tar" came up a lot, but I was never sure what it was. Thanks for the education!

Because of the antimicrobial properties, pinetar-drenched cloth/fibers are great for wrapping food, and for sealing off (clay) jars with consumables in them.

@signaturerush

2 жыл бұрын

, like oil cloth?

This video caught my eye, because I wanted to see if the way I make pine tar was the same as you (it was). I figured there wouldn’t be much to learn from this channel, and then I began to peruse the uploads. I apologize for even thinking such a thing. Your channel is quite a find. Thank you for taking the time to make these videos. There is coming a time when this will save lives. Good stuff. You’re one of the good guys.

@goldenglowladore3842

2 жыл бұрын

Very nice comment. 👌

@ronalddaub9740

8 ай бұрын

I have been making it. It's interesting and useful

I’ve always used the large roots of a wind blown pine tree... high volume of pitch.

@TheNevarLaW

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks great tip!!!

Pine tar was one of the greatest exports of Sweden in the past. Since it can keep wood from rotting it's quite useful for keeping ships afloat. It fell out of use when metal ships came into fashion though

@ZomBeeNature

6 жыл бұрын

Also because they cut down all the trees

@deeremies2266

4 жыл бұрын

@@ZomBeeNature they didnt though...

I absolutely adore primitive living and that good ol' Native know how. I've been practicing this for about 5 years now and started in 2012 with old fashioned lye soap making, which grew into my obsession with honoring my ancestors and continuing on with their lost skills. Now I travel annually to Oklahoma to share in Primitive Living Classes and learn new skills. There's nothing better than being a leader, especially for our youth who lose so much to the tech era.

I am very, very, impressed with your knowledge and mechanical know how on this lost art. People in today's world forget that we were making pine tar for probably thousands of years. Keep up the extremely good work, I am so glad that some of the old art's are not lost and forgotten.

@woodspirit98

5 жыл бұрын

combatvet711 weren't many metal cans to use thousands of years ago

@aritakalo8011

4 жыл бұрын

@@woodspirit98 One would use a tar kiln. dig round kiln pit and from center of build a drain (made from a hollowed tree trunk), cover the drain( with a lead in from center of the kiln), seal the whole floor of the pit with clay and moss(except the drain hole). Pile in the fatwood in the pit.cover the fatwood with extra wood for fuel, cover that with earth, moss, peat and soil. At the edge one would leave a gap to light the kiln from all sides and then cover. Let it burn, making sure the fire doesn't breach the coverings (oxygen gets in and the fat wood will just burn) and also pack it in as the wood inside diminished (again to prevent straight burning). Some large kilns could take week to burn. It is very similar process to charcoal making. Only difference is one uses fatwood and the kiln bottom needs to be lined for water proofing so the tar will run at the bottom, instead of soaking to ground (then one would get tar sand.......)

@pzzuo1387

2 жыл бұрын

@@aritakalo8011 Very good!

@billstiles487

Жыл бұрын

​@@woodspirit98 probably used clay pots. that technology has been working for a few decades.

@samcruickshanks6856

Жыл бұрын

@@woodspirit98 bronze age and iron age are both a few thousand years in the past 🤣

You can waterproof your clothing with it ... Or your tent, canoe and remove human scent from traps ...

@MavrikWillowbough

4 ай бұрын

But is it flammable?

I love you, thank you very much for sharing. I'm a Woman. Living in the woods and I have a big Pine tree that I love in front of my house. This is very useful, for me. Thank you, for real!

I’ve been making pine tar soaps. They are absolutely wonderful for sensitive skin. It’s been used for over 3000 yrs on farms to disinfect and heal wounds on animals. It smells absolutely wonderful. Rich earthy, soothing. My favorite soap. Some of my customers exclusively buy pine tar soaps and not interested in any other soaps. Awesome video. Thank you so much. ❤❤

@EC-dz4bq

2 ай бұрын

How much for soap made from human fat?

@escapezsamora4198

Ай бұрын

can I use it on making pine gel

I have split a lot of wood in my day and never thought of splitting smalls on the side. Thank you.

@daynaocean

3 жыл бұрын

Ditto.

@showmeanedge

2 жыл бұрын

Lol

What’s crazy is the despite doing this for as long as we have as a species and have manufactured much stronger adhesives, this stuff is still one of the best that you can personally manufacture from nature. I’ve used it in so many projects that I’ve made over the years and have ZERO complaints. Affordable, easy to use, easy to make, and it even has medicinal properties as well. It’s a powerhouse.

I had the most terrible sprained ankle; black calf muscle, knee pulled aside and swollen, ankle black and swollen. I elevated it for weeks, used and did everything doctor at hospital provided. It only changed in that the black area moved. Still tons of pain and swelling and black. I rubbed some of this pine oil into it. 5 seconds later, NO pain. 20 seconds later, NO swelling. Next morning, NO black. I rubbed it in a couple more times. I continued elevating it but I did NOT baby it. I walked (hobbled, limped) on it more than before. I had stopped taking the percocet pain pills they gave me so I could feel what I was doing. Fact is; within less than 12 hours - no pain no swelling no black. It's amazing stuff. That was an extremely severe sprain. Miracle medicine.

@goldenglowladore3842

2 жыл бұрын

Super info. Thanks! I need to look into how to make/ get pine oil. Or is pine oil another name for pine tar?

@cowboykelly6590

Жыл бұрын

😯 🖖

Us soap makers use pine tar to make pine tar soap. This is so cool to see how it’s made. Very cool!

Thanks for this video, now I know how my favorite kind of soap is made. Here from Jamaica.

I am so excited to do this tomorrow. Thank you so much. I enjoyed watching. I've been suffering with Lyme disease for years. I really think this could be an answer. I'm not even going to be able to sleep. Headed to my property to try it early. God bless you.

Absolutely fascinating! I'm making pine tar soap and stumbled across your video. So cool!

Hi yes well done this pine tar call in my country KAtran and smells good, people for centuries In north Africa Algeria Morocco and Tunisia they were using it and still to cover the new clay containers to preserve the genuinely and cleanliness of the water, prevented malaria and other deseases, also used to flavour water and keep it cool, its antifungal anti bacterial and kills virus, proven. Thanks for sharing

Personally I'd go for the stumps and roots they usually have the highest concentration of heartwood which is gonna yield the most pine tar. Also a slight dish shape to the bottom of the metal container with the little holes in the center at the deepest point to help channel all the tar into your catch can. Also what your left with in the container after the distillation process is charcoal which has alot of uses as well.

You are wise beyond your years. Awesome job.

Honestly didn’t expect to be watching this today but it looks kinda cool

I live on the site of an ancient Indian village in Oregon and I have found small stones and pebbles mixed together with pine tar (also called asphaltum). They used it for an adhesive and inside these tar blobs I found small semiprecious gem stone pieces and even someone’s front tooth. These objects vary in size from the size of a golf ball to the size of a basketball. They fall apart in hot water and can be dissolved with turpentine.

Don't forget it is used to make soap that has medicinal values......scalps, sores, etc.....

@Rambooutfitters

9 жыл бұрын

Carol Burnett Thanks for the tip!

Great info on finding fatwood. i do the same thing even on live spruce trees. Pine trees are up here but not in the areas i camp so i have to look toward the spruce tree. Splitting wood like that is a great tip, i use it many times or baton , this will help a few people out, always good to show axe /hatchet/tomahawk safety. lol I think i would fill the bucket and then when all ready, start my fire. tho hey this worked and you didnt burn yourself, so grats. Very good video man, thanks for sharing.

@Rambooutfitters

9 жыл бұрын

Kullcraven Bushcraft Thank you and I agree. I wish there were spruce trees here. It's my favorite tea. Got tons of them in Michigan, but none here. Yea probably better to teach putting the wood in first. I just kept the fire down then let it rip after. Thanks again my friend.

Great advice so don't get me wrong, but I think is funny how everyone that does survival tips in the woods seems to always use temperature for fires and liquids as if you will have a thermometer with you. I think color, viscosity, smell, etc. are your most accurate indicators in a real life situation for where you are at temp wise.

This is Awsome! I'm gonna go make some, right now!

I do love treasure hunting for Fatwood :) It's exciting each time you chop into a log or a branch and you see that beautiful deep red/orange color.

@daynaocean

3 жыл бұрын

And the scent 😍

Great job thats very important i appreciate you

Awesome video. Good explanations.

Very good ! Thank you so much for the video.

Excellent video! Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge and skills!

Love it, thanks for the info!

I like the way you do your video and it was very interesting thank you for staying down to Earth in your video I love to watch more of your videos this Pine Tar Now i know when in the 15th a and 16th century castle they used Pine Tar torches.

HEY EVERYBODY DONT FORGET THE HOLES IN THE BOTTOM OTHERWISE WHAT YOUVE GOT IS A BOMB

@johndifrancisco3642

7 жыл бұрын

I thought that was a REALLY good tip though about making them from the inside out. That's something I would have thought of after the fact :P

@ikkebandersen

4 жыл бұрын

I understand what you're saying. To put other words on this; make sure there isn't a vacuum otherwise you're going to see tar in your face when you look in the mirror.

@TheNevarLaW

3 жыл бұрын

@@ikkebandersen its no vacuüm mate, its pressure build-up. To the point of explosion.. Vacuüm is the absence of air. That's underpressure. Peace buddy

@ikkebandersen

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheNevarLaW oooh thanks for telling

@Chop__.

2 жыл бұрын

That's just one of the more dangerous, but exciting, uses for pine tar.

cool video. great skill!

Good info. Thanks for sharing !

It's simple heat melt and collect the pine sap use that way or distilled for turpentine hundreds of uses for wood or metal or medicine thousand year old knowledge thanks I just thought everybody already knew but many have been born since the forties when my family did everything from scratch great grandpa love and learn

And nobody brought up baseball?!?! This can save us all lots of money!!! Thanks a ton!!!

Another great video! Thanks a lot, Cheers, Marc

@Rambooutfitters

9 жыл бұрын

Scouting Free Thanks again Marc!

Thanks for sharing this video! Very interesting. I see someone else already mentioned using it to make soap. I was just watching a video on how to do that and ended up here, which I am glad I did. Will subscribe.

@Rambooutfitters

9 жыл бұрын

lizzyanthus1 Thank you very much. I'm glad you ended up here.

The secret to that jawline is chewing the pine tar like gum

very helpful tips thanks for sharing

Very good video. Appreciate it.

Would it be easier to fill the bucket first, then build the fire around it? Great video.

@miammiam8793

6 жыл бұрын

The whole thing takes time to heat up, so he's actually saving time by putting the bucket first, so it has a head start to heat up, while he fills it with sticks, otherwise that bucket is sitting cold and idle while he fills it.

@magicdaveable

6 жыл бұрын

AL Martin filling the bucket first is much more efficient. Preheating a relatively thin steel bucket doesn't speed up the process much. I use a 30 gallon drum of fatwood inside a 55 gallon drum. Mine is plumbed with iron drain pipe. I just set up the drums fill the inner drum with fatwood and fill in between the drums with the fire wood. A 30 gallon drum of fatwood makes about a gallon of pine tar. I use it for wood preservative and making soap.

First video of yours that I saw and the presentation was good. I'll check out others as well

Loving your vids

Thanks! Pine tar is quite useful stuff.......

I've used this tactic to patch a canoe on a fishing excursion I went on and I boil pine little branches with needles boil use the water after it cools mix with water base paint and it is a good extra resin with latex hardener

great video! very informative! thanks!

@Rambooutfitters

8 жыл бұрын

+StrengthInNumbers999 Thank you and glad to hear it.

Scarred trees often have large amounts of solid pine tar oozing down the bark. That is really the best starting point.

New sub... Enjoyed the video ty for the knowledge

Great video!!!

exactly what I needed.

Thanks for sharing your knowledge and for making this video bro!

My grandfather used to use this on injured animals. In the UK it is called "Stockholm tar", because much of it was imported from there.

@Rambooutfitters

7 жыл бұрын

Very neat

@dherrington2001

7 жыл бұрын

webtoedman was it to heal injuries or prevent infections? great information to know in case of zombie apocalypse

@cavemanjoe7972

6 жыл бұрын

Dina Herrington A bit of both.

This is actually a very good video. Nice work.

@Rambooutfitters

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks brother

Thank you, Billy Corgan

great info thanks for sharing always learning

@Rambooutfitters

8 жыл бұрын

+Amra survival That is great to hear and thank you as well.

I know it's and old video, but I only saw this now.. Great video.. Love fatwood.

like your hatchet tool. nice job as well.

@Rambooutfitters

7 жыл бұрын

SOG makes great and affordable products

great work man i really enjoyed it , been following you for awhile you got yourself another subscriber sir .

@Rambooutfitters

8 жыл бұрын

+campfiretrickery I truly appreciate that. I'll do my best to bring you quality info

@twilightgardenspresentatio6384

5 жыл бұрын

campfiretrickery new sub here today

Great video 👍👍👍

Excellent video.

Love the tribal music

Thanks for the information.

I'm makin tar exactly the same way, at the moment:D Just found this video to ensure myself that it's not a danger method cause of pressure cases.. glad to watch this as i use the same sort of cask:P usefull stuff - thumbs up!

@Rambooutfitters

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you, it's a good setup to make a good amount of tar without being too heavy to carry right to the fatwood

Excellent. Thank You.

Thank you for sharing!

@Rambooutfitters

9 жыл бұрын

Agnos Junior No problem my friend.

Really good video.

Awesome tip at 7:56 ! Many thanks

@Rambooutfitters

8 жыл бұрын

+Coyote Walking No problem. Glad to help my friend.

Thanks for the good information

all the people who disliked forgot to put the holes at the bottom

@mariesummers.

5 жыл бұрын

XD

@joelanttila7927

4 жыл бұрын

lol

@daynaocean

3 жыл бұрын

Haha

Great video! Thanks! Mike B.

@Rambooutfitters

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks my friend

Awesome info

Well done!

Very helpful!!!!

you get a fire started real quick with that stuff I've done it is when you go out and you're going to a Hunt Club that's what we use on the campfires getting started specially in the winter

Great video man new sub

Right on. Straight forward and simple. Excellent video.

Log builders used to use oakum (rope saturated in pine tar to fill the gaps between logs before chinking the gaps. The pine tar helps to reduce bugs and drafts

@goldenglowladore3842

2 жыл бұрын

Neat!

Excellent work

I loved the video. Does what you don’t use immediately harden being stored in the glass jar? Any recipes for making this into a salve with say coconut oil etc? Also can you put it in soap somehow?

Interesting, informative and well presented, Subscribed :)

@Rambooutfitters

9 жыл бұрын

Godshole Thank you

Excellent video

Cool video

very interesting and informative video

It can also be used in making soap. It has medicinal benefits.

thx for sharing

great vid

very useful video. thanks for making it.

@Rambooutfitters

7 жыл бұрын

Your welcome and thank you

What was the yeild and how long did it take? Thanks for the info!

nice one ,great job with making pine tar very cool method , great uses indeed 1 thanks for sharing and i agree with Marc Scouting Free you deserve more subs my friend ! look forward to the next vid atb john

@Rambooutfitters

9 жыл бұрын

the mi woodsman Thanks brother. I really do appreciate that. I have some good videos coming soon that you may find interesting.

@themiwoodsman7222

9 жыл бұрын

just subbed ya !

This isnt necessarily survival but it is definitely thriving

Cool man theyy also using it for soldering

Excellent video the one question i would have is how long or what is the window time wise. Do you have after a pine tree is down do you have to harvest the Wood ? I used to do a lot of Backpacking and hiking and i would use Sappy pine tree parts as a fire starters because it was free and light to carry. In Ziplock bags in my pack i lived in the NorthEast United States and did a lot of my hiking through the Appalachian. Mountains in Maryland , Virginia, and West Virginia as well as a little in Pennsylvania Knew that the old boat builders used to use Pine Tar to help seal and protect the finished boat thanks fo sharing i did Sub to the channel and i hope to “ Bingewatch “ any other videos you may have posted. As this stuff is right up my alley in liking

Rustic percussion but those are some serious beats!

You can even use it on your roof sealing leaks.