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Pine pitch
Pat B:
Ronnie, as long as you cook the terps from the pitch it will work for glue and varnish. If you don't cook it until it is hard and brittle the glue or varnish will come out sticky. Be careful cooking it though. Pine pitch is very volatile and WILL combust if overheated.
You do live in the piney woods og GA don't cha!
cracker:
You betcha around here an enterpreising land owner will work terpentine from the trees to make extra money comonly called tarheeling in you're neck of the woods.
Ron
Pat B:
Making them cat faces! ;D I'm originally a cracker too! ;)
cracker:
That's it exactly. Ive seen them load a 3/4 ton pickup to the breaking point with barrels full of the stuff.
Ron
Pat B:
I remember as a kid going down Hwy 17 near Brunswick where the Hercules Plant was, there was a pile of catfaces that had been pulled from the ground that was 100' high. I think they made gunpowder from it. I remember the piney smell riding down Hwy 17 on a steamy summer day.
I used to have a few terra cotta pitch pots that were used to catch the pitch as it came from the catfaces.
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