How to use Pine Sap | The forest's most useful resource

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[jamesdixon]

over the weekend, I used some sticky resin as a dressing for a small cut until I got home. I'm honestly in awe at how much good medicine, like this, is just right there if we know what to look for.

[mayamachine]

I'm native, I use pine pitch for so many things, it's a blessing, I always have it on hand.

[bornstellarnova]

I need to teach my kids this. They love going out into the woods and just exploring, like we used to when we were younger, because we didnt have fancy tech to play with. So many kids nowadays are just given tech for complacency, but this video is what YouTube was made for.

[boxedinacres]

2 weeks ago in the BWCA I used melted spruce resin to attach a broken silky saw blade to a stick. Cut a notch in a birch limb insterted the blade then wrapped it with paracord innards. Found an old can to melt some resin and poured it over the lashing and let it harden. Suprisingly it held up to cutting some wrist size limbs for a nice fire. Now i have a primative looking saw as a souvenir of my trip. Good video.

[amcgrayel]

I appreciate your concise, no-fluff way of communicating. That was just a nice brick of information

[phalypso]

I am not a survivalist. I am a creature of comfort, living relatively well in our land of plenty of useless things, but watching people like this man, who know how to use available resources and keep the old ways cause me to wonder just how much of what the ancients knew have we lost? Subbed, sir and interested in what you do.

[Hikerlifer]

My grandfather would collect and use it on the hay bailer belts to keep them from slipping. Kind of like store bought belt dressing. Great video. Hoping to see that salve video. Thanks.

[HiloBoiz]

My great uncle was a moonshiner in WV and he used to distill pine sap, turpentine.

[sacwriter]

Here's a tip for cleaning the resin of dirt and debris. Tie the resin inside a piece of cheese cloth, then drop it into a pot of boiling or simmering water. Use a stainless steel spoon and press the cheese cloth against the side of the pot, squeezing the resin out into the water. Fish it out of the water and let it cool.

[timrockman]

The trees expand as they grow and the bark gets cracked open to accommodate the increased girth.
Those growth cracks put out sap and resin. I really like the smell of pine and mix it with other aromas for colognes and other natural products.
Use silicone jars to collect it and it will come out easy when needed.

[SpunkmeyerSnr]

The Greeks put resin into their white wine.
It's called 'Retsina'.
An acquired taste to some but I love it.

[livelystone]

Great video, man, great knowledge, articulate, concise: blessed art thou. God our Father continue to bless and love thee.

[brettmoore]

Thanks, pine pollen is a good source for mineral and vitamins🎉

[memback]

I like how he says “when the time comes” not if the time comes.

[vonbuzz]

Used that stuff to repair cracks in a kevlar canoe in the BWCA, got it back 17 miles without too much leakage, ,

[sherryweeks]

Pine knots make great torches and are long lasting.

[kirkstewart-vfhg]

I've used it for fishing pole Ferrell cement since a kid.
I also pack balls of it in backpack while in woods hunting incase get lost and rainstorm or snow catches me off gaurd.

[Kangsteri]

Good info, thanks. It also works as flux for welding and soldering, when it's fresh it can be substitute for bubble gum. Good as ointment ingredient to heal the skin too.

[BootsEditor]

Pinyon pines are a great source. They put out the resin!

[aryehcopa]

Makes great chewing gum as well. When you find a clean, hard piece on the side of a tree (lodge pole is best), put it in your mouth and lightly/slowly chew and soften it. It will turn into perfect chewing gum texture and will clean your teeth. Find some wild mint and chew that into it and you wont know the difference from store bought gum like Doublemint.