How To Make Pine Tar and Charcoal From Fatwood

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hey guys how you doin thanks for tuning in again up to the property today and I'm going to process that fat wood that I've been collecting it's going to keep a little bit for fire starting make some shavings but the majority of but the majority of it I'm actually making pine tar for waterproofing got a whole ton of it nearby lots of red pine stumps and roots so might as well keep making this stuff it's good firestarter it's good for waterproofing I can make soap out of it it's good antiseptic so let's see how it works out see how much wood get out of this patch this wasn't the most resonant batch of how fat would I have I've got better stuff that's lower down and more into the center of the stump so I'll try it again with more resinous pine so let's give it a go first thing I do is dig a hole I want to get this flush with the ground so the other barrel can sit on top of it without cooking over that the player doesn't take this bottom can off too much source I'm taking the lid off and you don't want dirt to get in it right now in the upper can we'll keep that keep that field it doesn't catch on play of course the fines are going to get hardly flammable - one of the first things you need to do is put a couple off put some holes in the bottom of this barrel and the lowest sections here so it can drain into that into the pake and below you want to do that from the inside so that the perforations the fold and metal is pointed downwards if it's pointed up it's actually going to hold the resin inside the can careful it's going to be sharp but you can see what I'm talking about see how the perforations are pointed down now so that'll drain the residue better [Music]

don't Morgan stack the wood in there cheers pieces are standing upright so that's not blocking those holes to go a lot of distortion I had a feeling this pail is going to be too light for this and turn out if it's the prettiest or the lid handle yeah your lipstick okay lots of good circle let's refer charcoal turned out good so I assume we're going to get some more oil - yep there we go so it's a little bit of water in that pail so that's what's floating on top but it's a decent amount of tar so that's it that's how you make pine tar a very pungent order but they call stick the lid on here and I'll bring this back and make up some cordage this week like I said there wasn't much resin in the LED compared to some of the other stuff I have so probably what it got at least double that if I'd been using the stuff that saturated like looks like it's wet so this isn't enough to waterproof much wood but it's certainly enough to log proof some cordage you