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cooking pitch
mullet:
If you over cook it just add some Turpentine, it will rejuvenate it.
Pappy:
I am real interested in doing this and live in a pine thicket,Question,if you put a wound on a tree
say with a knife or small axe make how long would you suspect it would take to get the pitch.
Is is pretty quick or dose it take a while. I cut one yesterday and was wondering how long it would take.I also found some on one tree I trimmed some limbs on a year or 2 ago. :)
Pappy
recurve shooter:
pappy i aint got the slightest idea, but one of them said something about boiling heart pine (pine knot, starter pine, pitch pine, whatever). that seems like what i'll do.
JackCrafty:
Pappy, the bigger the wound the more pitch you'll get. It only takes a few days before the pitch makes a scab over the would. You have to keep picking at it to get a constant supply...although I've never been able to get very much, personally. I think the professionals use a tap similar to the ones used for maple trees.
sailordad:
it also helps to have the pine tree very well hydrated,as the more water in it the more sap can flow
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