Extracting oil from birch bark 🪵

[brennanmccown]

Just remember if youre ever lost in the woods, just make some oil. You won’t be alone for much longer.

[wwrp]

For those of you that don't know. That's pitch, not oil. it's commonly used for adhesives and sealants but is also a slow burning fuel.

[vonSchwarzberg]

Getting tar from birch or pine with pyrolisys - nice idea. Long forgotten stuff. You can use it for lots of things. Lamp fuel, leather and wood waterproof coating, boat patching - you name it.

[EthanEdwards]

Thanks for making videos that actually teach me useful things and isn’t absolute brain rot

[LuciferMorningstar-LM]

“I’m gonna show you how to make oil out here in the woods”
**SOUNDS LIKE THOSE WOODS NEED FREEDOM** 🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[hadizabagudu]

I like hiw you get straight to the point. No long intro, no music. Just knowledge. Perfect.

[GHOSTLYWHISPERSASMR]

Comes in handy when walking the woods and your "check engine" light comes on

[aidangruen]

Great vid, your contribution to democracy will not be forgotten.
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[Klikmation]

“Ok cool now I have oil, wait are those fighter jets, AAAAHHHH”

[LoveBirch]

Birch oil was used instead of kerosene in the oil-fueled lamps for a long time - some homesteaders use it to this day, because it is simple to make, out of natural resources, making it the perfect lantern fuel source in remote areas. It can be made out of several types of barks that are rich in oil - and birch bark is one of the, if not the richest, of them all. The only notable difference to kerosene is that this birch oil would produce heavy black smoke when burned. Other than that, their properties are highly similar. This is because there is a lot of black "ashes" from the charred bark, floating inside. If you took a filter of some sort and had the black oil seep through it, the resulting oil would be clean and produce next to no smoke at all. The byproduct of this is birch bark, turned into a charcoal. The vapors are a steam at first, the wood gas later - these byproducts are not collected during the process.

[bobschiebel]

Bonus, you also just made some really choice charcoal that can either be activated for water filtering, burned for a low smoke high heat fuel, or composted for crops.

[Mark_Z]

If I ever find myself, out in the woods, needing to make oil.
Something has definitely gone wrong.

[MercedesBenzS]

US gov : Did you just say oil ?

* Star spangled banner intensifies *

[tanithrosenbaum]

Ahh birch tar. Extra tip: while you're doing the pyrolysis, you can use the escaping and burning gasses to heat or cook stuff above the closed can, those gasses have a considerable heating value.

[sheiktigga]

99 missed calls from the US Government.

[aaronalbertson]

"Babe, wake up! Our military is invading forests of Birch."

[imjustsomefilmguy]

"The Department of Defense would like to know your location."

[jonathangonzalez]

Not only did you teach us how to make oil firm birch you also just taught everyone how to build a mini gasifier with little pressure so its safe compared to the full sized ones that can blow up... nice

[pizza-brain]

“Man, I’m so lucky I watched that guy on YouTube and learned how to make Oil!”

Fortunate son starts playing in the distance

[foodheaven]

My goofy ah here binge watching all these vids to make sure i can survive a apocalypse 🤣