Hey! I was just searching how to distill cedar because i want to try out my distiller i got last year and haven't used yet LOL and came across this video. I live in Spokane also! Glad to see videos from locals. Thanks for sharing your setup.
My dad had a huge cedar oil distiller he made from a round stainless steel milk tank. He used a wood furnace for years and then switched to a oil burning furnace to heat the cedar. He also did pine, balsam and spruce oil. He sold it to a dealer that sold it to larger companies. We pumped cold water from the river to cool the pipes. He would make about 2 gallons of oil per run. Sometimes more depending on the season. We used a old corn chopper to chip the small trees no more than 4 to 5 inch in diameter. The chips made amazing mulch when done processing. The tank would get filled and we would jump in and pack down the chips. He had a large thick rubber seal like tire tube to cover then a large round wood cover sealed with river clay. It was quite the process, but yearned a lot. When done the tank was made to pivot to empty. It was tipped by using a chain and a tractor to flip the tank. The smell of the Cooked wood and leaves was amazing. Nice still you have. Keep up the great work.
Shalom! Glory to God brother! Love seeing someone receiving what He has given to us naturally. May I ask if both of those are water ports on your double jacket copper pipe? I know the top one is for sure, the bottom one is my question? If it is for water too, do you have water running to both of them at the same time? Fixing to build one. Blessings in Jesus!
Hey Matt, I just bought a little 5 gallon distiller to have some fun and was going to prune some boughs off my western red cedar and a friend told me that cedar distillation is difficult because some kind of reaction the cedar has with the copper still I have. Have you heard anything about this? Thanks!
Hey I have a small distiller I bought on Amazon. Will that work for making cedar oil? Also do I need the wood shavings as well or just the cedar on the ends of the branches. I’m also from Spokane!
the amazon distiller will work fine might need multiple runs to get a bottle but thats fine. there is a small amount of oil in the wood most of the oil is found in the green end
totally hot guy who's smart plus plus! anyhew I tap cedar and pine trees, I'm trying to figure out how to turn it to cedar oil, also I noticed an increase in my energy level after about of week of collecting cedar/pine resin and did some reasearch and I read that it's also some kind of super food, which would explain the energy hike. Have you every heard anything like that and also do you know how to process the resin into cedar oil???
There is two ways to make the cedar or pine oil from the resin the first is what i do which is steam distillation the other is the same process of making "birch oil" not sure the name of the process but do a youtube search on "making birch oil" and that will work for your cedar and pine as well let me know how that turns out
Personally I wouldn't trust anything (materials) that I didn't collect myself....who knows what might've been around that tree? Maybe the guy running the saw filled his bar oil, or gas over some of those boughs, and we all know that a saw sprays oil from the tip of the bar. Just sayin'.
Hey! I was just searching how to distill cedar because i want to try out my distiller i got last year and haven't used yet LOL and came across this video. I live in Spokane also! Glad to see videos from locals. Thanks for sharing your setup.
My dad had a huge cedar oil distiller he made from a round stainless steel milk tank. He used a wood furnace for years and then switched to a oil burning furnace to heat the cedar. He also did pine, balsam and spruce oil. He sold it to a dealer that sold it to larger companies. We pumped cold water from the river to cool the pipes. He would make about 2 gallons of oil per run. Sometimes more depending on the season. We used a old corn chopper to chip the small trees no more than 4 to 5 inch in diameter. The chips made amazing mulch when done processing. The tank would get filled and we would jump in and pack down the chips. He had a large thick rubber seal like tire tube to cover then a large round wood cover sealed with river clay. It was quite the process, but yearned a lot. When done the tank was made to pivot to empty. It was tipped by using a chain and a tractor to flip the tank. The smell of the Cooked wood and leaves was amazing. Nice still you have. Keep up the great work.
That's awesome to hear that you guys made your own still and oil. I eventually want to build one that does rotate to empty.
Wow. What a detailed memory. I suppose hours and hours of participation sets the scene. Nice to meet you and thanks for sharing that.
Do you have any photo or video footage of this process?
Good video 👍👍
Great video dude 👍
So this is basically making cedar espresso?
What was propane expense for that run??
Shalom! Glory to God brother! Love seeing someone receiving what He has given to us naturally.
May I ask if both of those are water ports on your double jacket copper pipe? I know the top one is for sure, the bottom one is my question? If it is for water too, do you have water running to both of them at the same time?
Fixing to build one.
Blessings in Jesus!
The bottom port is for water out hope this helps blessing to you
Hey Matt, I just bought a little 5 gallon distiller to have some fun and was going to prune some boughs off my western red cedar and a friend told me that cedar distillation is difficult because some kind of reaction the cedar has with the copper still I have. Have you heard anything about this? Thanks!
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Hey I have a small distiller I bought on Amazon. Will that work for making cedar oil? Also do I need the wood shavings as well or just the cedar on the ends of the branches. I’m also from Spokane!
the amazon distiller will work fine might need multiple runs to get a bottle but thats fine. there is a small amount of oil in the wood most of the oil is found in the green end
totally hot guy who's smart plus plus! anyhew I tap cedar and pine trees, I'm trying to figure out how to turn it to cedar oil, also I noticed an increase in my energy level after about of week of collecting cedar/pine resin and did some reasearch and I read that it's also some kind of super food, which would explain the energy hike. Have you every heard anything like that and also do you know how to process the resin into cedar oil???
There is two ways to make the cedar or pine oil from the resin the first is what i do which is steam distillation the other is the same process of making "birch oil" not sure the name of the process but do a youtube search on "making birch oil" and that will work for your cedar and pine as well let me know how that turns out
What do you figure the weight of your cedar chip was to get your yield of oil?
Rough estimate about 200 lbs
Thanks
Personally I wouldn't trust anything (materials) that I didn't collect myself....who knows what might've been around that tree? Maybe the guy running the saw filled his bar oil, or gas over some of those boughs, and we all know that a saw sprays oil from the tip of the bar. Just sayin'.
I was personally there. The arborist called me and i got to see the tree and the chipping of it .
@@naturalchemistessentials4258 That's good then.
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