Making Pine Tar

[@jplamb77]

Great Video,,,,, Thanks for sharing your technique,,,,

[@stef1lee]

Thank you. I've been a soap maker for 7 years and have been homesteading for 4 years. I've finally become brave enough to give pine tar soap a go but first need pine tar. Since we are clearing some property and some of them are pine...this video was right on time for what I need to do. Thank you for the video and your time! Have a blessed one!

[@Surefootsurvival]

Stefanie Thibodeaux Thank you for your time watching.

[@robster985]

First time I've seen anyone vent the lid. Well done! After about 9 or 10 of these vids this is the one Im going with. Much more product than any of the others. Got yourself another subscriber.

[@Surefootsurvival]

chillidipper Thank you for taking the time to watch and subscribing

[@recall5811]

Excellent.......

[@Surefootsurvival]

Corporals Corner. Thanks brother

[@johnlord8337]

Most everybody does is the caveman style. I use an old pressure cooker over a modest fire. Have an (old) metal bowl inside the pressure cooker, a grill rack above, and cross stack all the fatwoods on the grill. Add in a LITTLE water to the bottom of the cooker. Heat up the cooker (up to 250F) that will steam and pressure up to 15 PSI, and this steam-softens and loosens up all the resin/oil/tar that drips down into the catch bowl. The steam will come out the pressure vent orifice. If you also continue this process, you can then char the wood sticks into charcoal. When there is no more smell of wood coming out of the cooker (this also means that there is a positive (and balanced) pressure, removing the oxygen. Take the pressure cooker off the fire, put a small golf tee into the pressure vent, and allow the cooker to completely cool down. When warm/cool to the touch, remove the golf tee, allowing any air pressure difference to come back into the cooker. Unlatch and remove the cooker top and set aside. At the top is your charcoal (that can be further broken down into smaller size, or the basis for activated charcoal). Remove the charcoal and the grill. In the bottom catch bowl is your pine (birch) resin/oil/tar. Remove the bowl and pour the product into other storage container(s) and seal. This process is vastly faster than the caveman method, and can process large volumes of both charcoal and pine tar. In the same way, without the catch bowl, other charring materials (cotton cloth, gauze, vegetation ...) can be put atop a raised grill in the cooker. No water, but hot air convection dry out, then char this material in the same way. You can make a huge volume of char material. If you also want to make pine resin as a glue, then process according to the above pine oil, but don't take it as far as charcoaling the wood. The catch bowl will have the fatwood resins/resin chips liquid. Open up the container and use multiple sticks for twirling up your resin sticks. If you have other (ancient) small metal block candle pours, you could oil up the metal block, then pour in the resin, and let cool. Knock out the pure resin sticks (that won't stick to the block).

[@Surefootsurvival]

John Lord i will have to try that way one day. We teach this method because it is easer to explain. You are more then likely to find these material out in the wild then a pressure cooker.

[@johnlord8337]

I have replaced all my cooking gear for this small 4 quart aluminum (3 1/2#) pressure cooker. Only water bottle and knife/fork/spoon ... weight trade off of all the other gear for this. Over 40 different uses for this, including water boiling, steam-sterilizing, dehydrating, slow/low cooking, bear ball, bear hang, toss into pond for refrigerated/frozen food storage, stealth cooking, hot water container near fire for many uses, night time hot water heater under hammock or in tent warming, ... steam-sterilizing and distilling fresh water from swamp water or even sea water (fresh water and dried sea salt), even making bushcraft chemicals and biofuels.

[@princezzpuffypants6287]

This is what I was looking for! Thank you, sir.

[@barrybroome9348]

Great DIY video. Thank you. I’ll give it a try!

[@Surefootsurvival]

Thank you for taking the time to watch

[@drhodesart3304]

🔥🔥

[@omarghamdioa7165]

Bravó . I realy liked it.

[@Surefootsurvival]

omar ghamdioa Thank you for taking the time to watch.

[@4070Raymond]

How long did you have to fire running for?

[@1alnitawilliamslovinglife56]

I do not know if you still have this page up and running where you can access it I would like to know how long do I let the fire burn

[@Surefootsurvival]

There is no real time limit. I have allowed it it burn for over an hour with no issue. When it has cools, you can all ways open the lid to see if it has all burned to charcoal. If not, go for a second burn. Thanks for watching.

[@victorcastle1840]

Thanks for the info and instructions . Will be looking for some of the servile uses.

[@mericagunsfreedomandlove.8985]

Bro. For years ive been trying to make this stuff. Each time failed or highly inefficient. I think this is my best bet. Only problem is that i live where one inch dig you hit lime stone.

[@jakessurvivalandbushcraft5430]

I know I'm getting to the video kinda late but I'm 13 and were wondering if I made all the components out of clay if it would work.

[@Surefootsurvival]

Its awesome that a person as young as you is getting into bush craft. The canister uses to put the pine wood in to fire has to be very tight (so no flame can’t get inside) if you can accomplish that, i don’t see why it could not work. Also might have to be concerned of the heat the clay will need to take.

[@jakessurvivalandbushcraft5430]

@@Surefootsurvival Thank you very much I will have to try this.

[@jakessurvivalandbushcraft5430]

Also, amazimg video. I'm definitely a subscriber!

[@chrismead1464]

how flammable is the oil or tar once extracted?

[@Surefootsurvival]

Extreamly flammable, it has to have direct flame though

[@MikeJones-yf2xx]

I will try this

[@jameshutto3047]

Howd it go?

[@nxone9903]

i want to ask - which burns more and longer raw resin or tar and which is better for a glue material?

[@Surefootsurvival]

Swarp_Plays resin makes better clue. Which burns longer, That is something I️ will have to experiment with to give you a good answer.