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Harvesting Pine Pitch

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anasazi:
I tend to gather the mostly dry pitch. There is usialy tones of it around camp grounds plenty of damaged trees there.any tree with bark beetles usialy has big globs that are easy to get. Best haul i got was from a section flattened by a micro burst or something and i came out with almost a gallon of dry pitch from downed trees.

RedBear1313:
Time is how you harvest pitch.    By investing time, while you hike and hunt in the woods keep your eyes peeled.

OR look around cultivated areas like apartment complexes, schoolgrounds, etc.

That's where I FINALLY found a tree that gave me a very good amount of pitch.

It was litterally dripping everywhere from it in HUGE amounts.

So I promptly took every globe I could grab, stuffed a couple mason jars with it, and then went ahead and made some pine pitch bee's wax for my strings.

Pat B:
I like to find old wounds and pic the hard pitch off of it.

bowtarist:
I like a harder pitch too. Or you can cook it down to harden it. If you use runny sap you'll end up with soft glue. I usually go to a pine woods and collect off natural wounds. It's not hard to cook it down though, but be careful it's real flammable.  Have fun, dp

RedBear1313:
Just watched a good vid on a decent way of cleaning it up in the field last night.

I'll add and edit it to this post when I get a minute to go find it again.

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