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Pine pitch
sailordad:
--- Quote from: Marc St Louis on September 06, 2010, 10:00:42 pm ---A good source of almost pure sap is the cones. They are covered in pure, clean sap, I've just got to figure out an easy way of getting it off. I figure filling a big pot with a bunch of them, putting a lid on and just heating them up will do it but it will still be messy and you can kiss the pot goodbye for cooking after
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use a large metal coffe can
i always use large metal soup cans when i make it,but my pitch is almost clean.very little debris in it.
i find rows of pines in the ditches where the county has cut them back in the spring,and go collect it during the summer.
big juicy globuals of pine sap ;D just waiting to be taken and melted down.
Marc St Louis:
--- Quote from: sailordad on September 06, 2010, 10:18:14 pm ---
use a large metal coffe can
i always use large metal soup cans when i make it,but my pitch is almost clean.very little debris in it.
i find rows of pines in the ditches where the county has cut them back in the spring,and go collect it during the summer.
big juicy globuals of pine sap ;D just waiting to be taken and melted down.
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I use a large coffee can to melting sap collected off trees for cleaning but they are way too small for getting it off the cones. You need something really big as the Pine cones are quite large and it wouldn't be worthwhile doing them in small batches
mullet:
I take pieces of pine wood and heart pine and boil it in a large can. Then I take a stick and twirl it in the sap that floats to the top until I have a big ball of sap on a stick.
Marc St Louis:
--- Quote from: mullet on September 07, 2010, 02:10:52 pm --- I take pieces of pine wood and heart pine and boil it in a large can. Then I take a stick and twirl it in the sap that floats to the top until I have a big ball of sap on a stick.
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Good idea
stringstretcher:
LOL...Mullet, I ask about doing that about a year ago, and everyone thought i was crazy.....lol. Does it give you a fair amount of sap for the effort? I would love to see the results the next time you boil some out. Thanks
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