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Pitch recipies

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Pat B:
I believe the reason they boiled stumps here in the mountains is because that is where the richest pitch deposits were. Very little fat wood here in the mountains, at least not like we had on the coast. I have seen giant dead standing long leaf yellow pine trees, 4' in diameter. You could cut a slab 4" thick off one of those trees and see light through it. They are so rich you had to use a brass ax to split then to keep from creating a spark.  ;D ::)

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