Birch bark tar - on a day trip (Bushcraft)
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
- Unlike pine and spruce pitch glue, the birch bark tar needs no mixture with coal and fibres. And no animal fat to be flexible.
The uses of birch bark oil:
Leather and wood sealing. (if mixed with linseed oil it goes deeper in the wood)
Insect repellent
Protection from bacterial and fungal infections.
It's flammable and can be used as a candle or lamp oil.
Birch bark tar:
Chewing gum
It's waterproof, and can be used as for example, sealing a birch bark canoe.
And of course as a glue. (Otzi's axe head was hafted with birch bark tar, 5.300 years ago.)
To make tar; boil the oil, let it cool for awhile to see the consistence, if it is too hot, it will be thin. If you let it boil for too long, it will become carbon.
Please only use bark from dead trees.
A better use than a cookie can, could be a (clean) paint bucket, as the lid will stay closer. Make a small hole in the lid, so the smoke can get out, or it will make underpressure, and the lid will come of. but be carefull that it won't catch fire inside the can.
The smoke came out from under the lid in my video and was on fire. (6.04)
The fire was on for about 4 hours. I can't tell you how long you must burn it, it depends on the can size and how hot your fire is.
Thanks again for watching.
Søren
Music: Easy Day, Kevin Macleod
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Thank you for sharing your ways of unedited beauty.
Thank you for only taking (mainly) from felled/dead trees, and for reminding others to do the same.
Very wise to spread your companion's food on the earth so they practice foraging for food.
Thanks. I only take from dead trees, I hate seeing campsites where people have massacred the surrounding trees. :(
She has a very good nose, she have found items I have lost, a couple of times. :)
I think if your off any kind of path and your not repeatedly abusing the area coppicing a tree or two is fine, if the odds are no one else will be coming to do the same in the next 10 to 15 years you will actually probably have given the tree a fork and multiplied it's trunks so more wood for the next adventurer
You do such a good job at filming. Really enjoy your videos
Thank you very much :D
As always great video again.
Expect more videos from you please.
Take care Don.
Ben
Thank you :) ...my plan is to be more active. :)
Love your films, so informative without the waffle you get with some channels. Glad to see you back making films.👍🏻
Thanks :) I go for the principle: Don't tell - show. :D
Nary an "urban youth" in sight. Paradise.
😂😂😂
Just the sort of video I've been searching for thanks!! No 10 minute talking and asking for me to subscribe. Just a straight forward video 😊
Great video. You are a very skilled bush crafter too. Also,, nice to see your loyal companion accompanying you on your bush crafting trips 👍
Thank you :) I couldn't do it with out her ;)
Welcome back! Lovely video, as always. - Davi
Thank you :D
glad you’re back! your videos are great.
Thank you :)
Great film ,you make everything look so effortless ....superb
Thank you :D
Great video as usual. I dig the way you made that pot hanger and the saw horse. Well done.
Thank you Joel :D
Super nice. And I like your dog. He looks so sympathetic :-)
...even though Im sure he expected you to make a birch bark bowl for his dog food ;-)
Thanks my friend, she is :)
It's better to activate her, she loves using her nose. :)
Thank you for all your videos! I hope you and your dog are well! God bless you brother
Thanks for sharing and inspire Don. Cheers!
My pleasure, thank you :)
Really liking this series of videos you are putting out. Keeping making fun projects like you are doing. These help give me great ideas for my camp to do. We plan on building your pot hook system next time we are out. Minnesota checking in.
Thank you very much. Will do so :) Its a very good system. Have a nice trip :)
You always amaze me with your skills . That single saw horse is brilliant . Will be making one for my base camp . As always superb video !
Steven
Thank you very much Steven :D I like my single saw horse a lot, I can only recommend it. :)
Great outing! linked from BCUSA, and subbed. The remains in the can always reminds me of burned angle food cake.
Thank you very much :) ...:D
So the big tin had a hole?&when the bark sap was heatedit melted into the little tin? LOL OMG that's the answer to life's persistent???'s& u r definitely my cousin from another brothers mother. I love you too much for us to not be related! That being said I'm terribly sorry we probably can't marry in fact it's out of the question bcuz I love you that much I couldn't do that to u . Or me . Convinced I'd spontaneously combust upon being in your presence! Presents! You are the best gift RUclips ever gave this planet! Thankyou for reminding me about my heritage. You're the absolute best!
Haha!!! :D Thanks.
Thanks
Thoroughly enjoyed watching 👍
Thank you :)
This video was nice and relaxing 😊 If I didn't have my knee bandaged up I would be so going out into the woods today!!!
Thanks :) Hope you get well and out soon. ;)
What a lovely day - thank you for sharing!
Thank you, it was a lovely, sunny day :)
Молодец. Заботится о природе.
thanks :)
Thanks for this. You have a good helper there with you!
Very nice video, and a great way to learn something new only seen this done with Pine pitch. The Pot hanger was a awesome too, I liked the notches. Trev
Thank you very much :)
Du laver jo de bedste BC videoer her... Håber så meget at du fortsætter med det...
Tak :D ...jeg vil forsøge om ikke jeg kan være lidt mere flittig til at lave dem. :)
Great video, Don.
Tak min ven :)
Welcome back, hurray !!
:D
Im new here soren. Love your videos and content. Very grateful . Thanks
Thank you :)
طبیعت گردی عالی .. سپاس فراوان از ارسال دیدنی ..
آرزوی بهترینها برای تو دوست عزیز .
سگ زیبا و باهوش ، سلام
Thank you very much Karen :)
Very nice we make a lot of Pine tar for use in salves and as glue too ! Wonderful video
Thank you. I have made glue from spruce resin, deer droppings and coal. Plan on making some tar from pine roots/fatwood as well.
for our salve we use oil with infussed walnut leaves bees wax and the pine tar
What is the walnut leaves good for?
Both the hull and the leaf of this tree have been used for centuries to counter various skin conditions, such as eczema and psoriasis. Black walnut leaf also yields its antifungal and antibacterial properties to water, so it can be prepared as tea as well as used to make topical skin washes and compresses.
Just found your channel, this is the first video i watch from your channel. But already i can say, you know what you are doing. Nice to see someone with such skill, making the effort to film it with such food quality!
Thank you :)
Awesome! Another excellent video!
Thanks :)
You tool,s is incredible , very useful and effective, and your skill is lot talent, me enjoy your video
Thanks :)
That Silky is awesome.
Så hyggeligt at se dine videoer :D x
Tak, sødeste Trille :)
Superfin knage du har lavet til din gryde der! Det så ud til at være en rigtig hyggelig kop kaffe :-)
Tak Lars. det var det også :)
Another fantastic video. Thank you and please keep them coming! Love your dog by the way. He looks a dude.
Thanks, I will try to :) I love her too, she is the best I got. :)
Good job man 👍👍👍
Thank you :)
Very nice. i enjoyed this.
Thank you :)
When I did this experiment the product of tar source had some water, about 20% by volume which naturally separated from the tar. The bark source was taken from downed trees left by logging operation and the trees had about three years worth of weathering on the ground. I cant say for sure the aged and weathered bark was the reason for the water, but from what I see in your video my experiment used more bark with a little bit less yield of tar.
Maybe the inner bark was soaked in water, or did you peal it of?
What a great video, Soren.. Informative og tranquaile... It so wants me to leave the office right now and go to the woods and start a fire :-)
I must try to make some tar one of these days.. will be great for fastening flint arrowheads to homemade arrows
Thanks Søren :) Make sure to keep your nose away from the smoke, it's poisonous. ...have a nice trip :)
i like your videos..very much
Thank you very much :)
Nice I gotta try this sometime.
Thanks :) You should. If you find a place with dead birch, it is easy to get a good amount of bark.
I don't like your axe. It's a crafting axe. But I love to see you using it. I've seen you split good sized logs with it. I've seen you carve with it. I've seen you do a lot with it. And that's awesome.
I'm a firm believer in mastering anything you haul into the woods so it's a joy to watch you prove me wrong every time with it. I think, yeah, he's using the wrong axe, but he's using it right. Then I start to think, is it wrong then? Maybe I'm the one who's wrong?
Then I say screw it and just enjoy the video(s). Good stuff as always Soren.
--Yankee
Hahaha! Thanks my friend. Maybe i am just to lazy to bring larger axes, even thou i love using them. ...and I have plenty. :)
DonVonGun I tend to use a forest axe for everything. I keep meaning to get a belt axe like a tomahawk or a bearded axe so I can hew and take care of kindling tasks but I never get round to it *lol*
I love using axes, but since I got a good saw, it is not as necessary, and i spare the weight.
I always brought a 3/4 axe, but will probably now use the Husqvarna Carpenter's Axe for most of my work now. Not a hatchet, but a genuine small axe with a 2# head. I like heavy heads on shorter hafts. I used to swing a 2# roofing hatchet 10,000 times a day (no typo) for years. Even my 3/4 axes (boy's axe or Hudson Bay) I end up using one-handed for most of the time.
But again, I love seeing people use tools in unorthodox ways and see them making that tool their own. :)
I love Carpenters axes too :)
Really intresting. i have tried this method severaltimes with tin cans always failure. i have had some success with cermic containers. i had a metal tin acutally blow up on me once^^ really tripped to figure out how everyone makes it look so easy. thanks for sharing!!
That sounds crazy. :O Never had a problem with it.
very nice
Thanks :)
Dejlig video som vanligt Don:)
Musen er også god på video;)
Tak Rasmus, også fra Musen ;)
Душевно. 👍
спасибо :)
Interesting, what are the possible uses for this ?
Oh and nice and very respectful way to make fire, hats off.
Thanks. You can read more about it in the description, below the video. :)
Ah very detailled ! That's impressive possibilities. Birch wood and bark are wonders.
I should try :)
awesome video & channel.. maybe i missed it elsewhere, but can you tell us what knife that is you're using, making the featherstick(s) around the 3:00 minute mark? love that pattern.
Thank you :) ...the knife is made by my good friend Lumberjackdk, you can find him on instagram.
thanks, i will definitely check him out!
Hi Don, I really like how concise your videos are. No fluff, right to the point. I'm curious to know what pack you're using in this video. I'm looking to upgrade my ALICE pack to something a little more water resistant and yours looks like its a waterproof leather of some sort.
-Zack from Canada
Thank you :) Its a Swiss Army Rucksack. Cant remember the name, sorry. Its rubber. And leather.
@@DonVonGun hey thanks man!
Nice!
Thanks :)
Got to try this
Its a nice project. But when i do it next time, I will only make the tar. I have more use for it. :)
What you going to use for. I’d like some ideas
Awesome! Thanks
Why were you heating that tar in the end? To vaporize something off of it or? Im going to test this someday, thanks for the video!
Dude, your dog looks like my neighbor, freaky ))))
Hope its your neighbors dog. :O hahaha!
@@DonVonGun no, the neighbor himself , that's whats so freaky lol . But he looks much better as a dog, than as a neighbor lol. Anyways, love your vids. good job.
I loved the video, but the instructions weren’t very clear & because of that, I have no clue what to do
Nice one! I tried once but the lid wasnt flat so the rocks didnt hold on it when it poped up!.... : / take care my wood friend.
Thanks :) I have tried the same. :/
I know someone must have asked this sometime in the past, but I can't find the answer. What is your dog's name? Seems like a really cool dog. You guys enjoy your time together, it never seems enough when the end comes. My old dog is 13 now and on his last legs. I treasure every walk in the woods we take.
Thanks :) Her name is Effie, ...aften an earlier dog I had. I usually call her; mouse. I feel with you, I ain't looking forward to that day, she is my family. :(
Im your family too 🐱dont forget!
One of your us gf😻
Love u man!!!
Собачка прикольная. Такое ощущение, что она не очень понимает - нафига хозяину это всё надо).
True. She think I am nuts, walking back and forward to the camera all the time. :D
I am new in your channel, great videos, have you some video about your knife ?
Hi, where did you get that animal skin from.
bushcraftbutikken.dk
@2:00 a danish cookies tin from Christmas stock at big box shop
Thanks!
How does your saw fit into that tiny back pack?
Haha!! One should think i was a magician. :D
@@DonVonGun I guess you wrapped it in your blanket on top, but that doesn't seem bulky enough either. I am genuinely perplexed, unless this is just editing.. It's a nice saw though, good and sharp too. One of those Japanese ones, right?
@@Ludifant Oh, sorry i thought you were being ironic, becourse of my big backpack. :) Yes its a Silky saw. Its foldable, and i believe i kept it in a side pocket. Silky Bigboy 2000. Thanks :)
Awesome video sir! Ellie has such a soulful face. Did you make the kuksa? If so, what kind of wood?
Thank you. Yes, I carved it from a birch knot.
The orange liquid in the bottle is askunk oil?
Just food oil :D
@@DonVonGun can we use it in perfumes?
This is the same way the Ancient Romans used to make Birch Glue !
Did you use the pitch as chewing gum or adhesive?
Adhesive. I haven't tried it as gum yet. Have you? I was contacted by some historical researchers who wanted to know the same.
Whats knife brand?
Made by a friend of mine: LumberjackDk (instagram)
Fedt
Tak :)
does making this smell bad?
No, not on a distance, but dont smell at it, and don't inhale. :)
mozna sie zakochac w sile aloha
Really nice. I see you have a handy helper also. ----on my channel the dog is the co star.^^ he carries all the tools and does all the hard work.
very informative and entertaining video!
You should patten that pot hanger
I guess smoking Birch bark might not be such a good idea.
Haha!! i wouldn't recommend it. :D
А зачем дёготь?
du mannen
Tak :)