Inlike to know if ya can do a video on how to grow birch trees and I luv the recipes. Thus is the way God intended us to use the land not pharmaceutical company's pockets. Iam glad I found your website and I look forward to catching up on the videos that I have missed. Please thank you and iam grateful that God you are trying to help our planet to by doing this. I have great respect for people that care and I believe in my heart you truly care about others. Thank you and iam very appreciative of your knowledge and grateful God lead me to you. Please don't give up on the world it takes a army of us and there just not enough caring people like you! Thank you once again. Praying for your health and family from Traci
It's a slow inefficient method but we don't always have clay or metal pots and man is it a bunch of work to make clay pots. Slow and inefficient but still a good idea and a great viable option when tired, injured, sick etc etc.........Making a fire and burning bark like this is the easier option for sure.
Absolutely! It works just as well, but it's a lot easier to harvest (if the wood is already a bit punky and mushy). Plus, you don't have to injure a living tree to obtain it.
Could it be that primitive humans just found the birch pitch deposited on their fire pits? It seems this small experiment already yielded a substantial amount, but if you do it every day, I imagine the quantity would be more as well.
Birch tar needs a cool surface to condense on, otherwise it will either burn off or escape into the surrounding air. Therefore I don't think you would find it in the fire pit itself. But if you make a fire next to, say, a cave wall, it could well precipitate there in large enough amounts that our ancestors might have discovered its usefulness this way.
@@MakeItPrimitive That does make a lot of sense! Thank you. I came here because in a documentary, the scientists were scratching their heads on how ancient neanderthals would be able to make the first synthetic residue, beside it being quite hard and deliberate to extract. They came up with the solution you tried in your second video, only then with eggs with a clay seal in between them. I immediately felt that was not going to be the solution, as I assume most earliest of inventions came through serendipity. Besides that, no evidence has been found that this tool was used, granted, a tool like that might not last up until present day.
In the video, you see me using a mullein spindle on a willow hearthboard. However, I have since turned to linden (lime tree) or poplar for my hearth boards, since willow is simply too flaky for me - for every time it works, I had about ten to twenty where it just didn't. I suspect its long, sturdy fibers get in the way of creating the necessary hot dust. I have also successfully used teasel instead of mullein spindles.
Just a reminder: As always, this is a silent video with subtitles. Please turn on the video captions for my notes and comments.
Man the experiments on your channel are just awesome.
Once i get some fired pottery im gonna try it.
Even the Ancient Romans used Birch Tar as glue !
Great idea with the Stone Stove, btw !
I love this video, now I can recreate some things in Dr.stone
Thanks! Take a look at my two most recent videos, they show two much more efficient methods of birch pitch production.
Great video. 👍 keeping these skills in our toolbelts are very important to me.
Just subbed and look forward to more.
Inlike to know if ya can do a video on how to grow birch trees and I luv the recipes. Thus is the way God intended us to use the land not pharmaceutical company's pockets. Iam glad I found your website and I look forward to catching up on the videos that I have missed. Please thank you and iam grateful that God you are trying to help our planet to by doing this. I have great respect for people that care and I believe in my heart you truly care about others. Thank you and iam very appreciative of your knowledge and grateful God lead me to you. Please don't give up on the world it takes a army of us and there just not enough caring people like you! Thank you once again. Praying for your health and family from Traci
I am going to give this a try and see how it goes.
Cool! Stay tuned, I'm currently working on a technique to produce much larger yields of birch tar.
It's a slow inefficient method but we don't always have clay or metal pots and man is it a bunch of work to make clay pots. Slow and inefficient but still a good idea and a great viable option when tired, injured, sick etc etc.........Making a fire and burning bark like this is the easier option for sure.
subbed! nice!!
will dead birch bark work for this?
Absolutely! It works just as well, but it's a lot easier to harvest (if the wood is already a bit punky and mushy). Plus, you don't have to injure a living tree to obtain it.
Ahh...the smell of birch tar! I bet you smelled like tar a few days later lol.
I always smell many days later when making tar
Could it be that primitive humans just found the birch pitch deposited on their fire pits? It seems this small experiment already yielded a substantial amount, but if you do it every day, I imagine the quantity would be more as well.
Birch tar needs a cool surface to condense on, otherwise it will either burn off or escape into the surrounding air. Therefore I don't think you would find it in the fire pit itself. But if you make a fire next to, say, a cave wall, it could well precipitate there in large enough amounts that our ancestors might have discovered its usefulness this way.
@@MakeItPrimitive That does make a lot of sense! Thank you. I came here because in a documentary, the scientists were scratching their heads on how ancient neanderthals would be able to make the first synthetic residue, beside it being quite hard and deliberate to extract. They came up with the solution you tried in your second video, only then with eggs with a clay seal in between them. I immediately felt that was not going to be the solution, as I assume most earliest of inventions came through serendipity. Besides that, no evidence has been found that this tool was used, granted, a tool like that might not last up until present day.
what kind of tree are you using for your friction fire?
In the video, you see me using a mullein spindle on a willow hearthboard. However, I have since turned to linden (lime tree) or poplar for my hearth boards, since willow is simply too flaky for me - for every time it works, I had about ten to twenty where it just didn't. I suspect its long, sturdy fibers get in the way of creating the necessary hot dust. I have also successfully used teasel instead of mullein spindles.
thanks this helps
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