Lots of white birch around my neck of the woods. I was with a logger one time when he tapped birch to make wine. It was great! I never knew about the information in your post. The land gives so much that most of us are not aware of. Thank you very kindly for sharing this knowledge.
Gas eventually starts to build up while the bark is pyrolysing, which creates pressure inside the can. Poke a small hole in the top of the can to let out the gas and you wont need to worry about the lid popping off. The gas is flammable, so you'll see a flame coming out through the hole you've poked, this doesn't mean the bark is burning, it's just the gas. You can use this flame as an indicator that pyrolysis is still happening, so when the flame disappears completely you know the bark is full pyrolysed and the oil is fully extracted.
hole the bottom dose that forces the tar out the hole in to the can get be way do this on a wood stove make in the house not in cold dirt wet out side thinking back to old show i seen there was upside down tea pot with a run off spout that be the thing make gal of it or a heater box on the side of the stove
This is so cool! I bought an oil lamp and was looking for general info on that and found your birch oil video. I'm amazed at all the uses it has, so I'm certainly going to try this! You know I've made drawing charcoal before in basically a capped pipe so I'm thinking of multitasking and not only collect oil but use the remaining charcoal (powder) to draw/paint with. Thanks so much for sharing!
The list goes on and on. It is also helpful in cases of poor circulation, the accumulation of toxins in the muscles, for arthritis, rheumatism, muscular pains, edema and cellulite. I hope this helps.. GREAT VIDEO!!! Thank you Joe and Zach ;)
Thanks for sharing this vid!!!! Im very impressed,I beleive we should all get back to our roots in some way or another,this shows how hard life was back in the day,I mean this could take weeks to store enough for everyday usage.....Everyone is so caught up in day to day life and the American Dream.......to me this is wonderful!!! Thanks again,i can wait to try it this summer!!
Awesome video, I have not done this yet but I read that the same thing can be done with the roots of pine to make a tar that kept the British Navy afloat for hundreds of years.
Since four days now I had plans to do this, but I haven´t come to do a search on how to do it and now this video just pop up in my feed. Amazing. That´s exactly what I need. Something is telling me to really do it, right? I was told its good to have on your axe-handle and as lamp-oil. Great video. Thanks for sharing! ATB, Ulrica
The native same people of Norway has used this oil on skin cancer. tried to find info or a link on it but there i cant find anything on the topic. Was a shaman from Finnmark in Norway that was telling us about it. He put the oil on the spot where the cancer was and then he covered that again with the inner bark of the tree. Changing this every other day until the spot was cancer free. Dont know if it works but there you go, thats at least the story about it. :)
Great video, not many people mention how important it is to keep the heat away from the refined oil by burying the top can a little. Too much heat and you end up with birch tar and not oil. A slower burn will also help with the pressure although as gamblemadman ? wrote, a little hole on top will also serve as with char cloth.
Yes I watched the other video. I wonder if you mixed with gas line antifreeze "heat" in the yellow bottle (small amount) with pure oil and ran thru sand filter if it would clear it up enough to run 100%. The "heat" would evaporate if left uncovered. I'll have to give a try this spring. Thanks very interesting video.
cool video, I have around 30-40 lbs of chaga mushroom that I harvested from birch trees here in western MA. I drink it as a tea. It is supposed to be like a superfood
want to try this : pine tar , birch tar , beeswax, turpentine and boiled linseed oil mixed equal parts heated , you can waterproof anything from tent seams, to bags leather and wood
Yes it is but I assure you its not explosive lol. I have a video where I mix it with tiki oil and use it in a lantern, you can check that out and see what you think. Thank You. Joe
I like when people follow up on experiments they see on RUclips because I'm a big fan of doing that as well. What are some of the possible applications for the oil?
I believe the reason you cover the bottom of the big tin in dirt is so you don't get oxygen in there otherwise the oil would set on fire. I may be wrong but fire triangle tells us that fuel, heat and oxygen= fire!! Don't wanna take your paint tin off and find you've burn off all your hard work! Good video pal.
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Simple lamp oil, though I do not recommend using it in a lamp with a globe, Birch oil is quite smoky and will blacken your globe quite quickly. I see that someone else in an earlier comment already suggested poking a vent hole towards the top of the can...Without the ability to draw outside air, the oil is forced to stay "in the fire" much longer than is prudent. Thanx for the video...too much knowledge is rarely a bad thing when it comes to survival.
I cook mine for 1 hour. Thats plenty for me. Your bark seems pretty charred so you could use less burn time. Xtra burn time you could lose some oil through burning +evaporation. Good luck and great video. Cool getting some useful product yourself huh? I treat my wood axe handles with the oil. Really brings out the grain. Great protectant.
+Chip McClain I really do enjoy making that and also making the pine tar using the same method. Its always very cool getting things from nature the way it was done way back when. Thank you Chip. Joe
roll the bark, with the outer side outermost (as it is onthe tree) into one roll, this helps get as much in the tin as possible(less air gaps) but is a bit fiddly as it tries to unroll (you can tie it with twine) thanks for the video!
I wonder if that would make for nice waterproofing of fabrics, leather, etc... What all kinds of uses have ya got figured out for it so far? Glue, waterproofing, fire starter, lacquer (will it harden?), edible (probably doesn't smell like it huh)?
if you keep it in the can by the fire (being careful not to let it catch light) you can turn it more viscous by evaporating some off, and it eventually reaches the stage where it is hard when at room temp. which is good for glue and waterproofing!
great job Joe I've been watching your channel for a while I made a batch of birch oil like this a long time ago I made about a half a gallon of it mixed it with a half a gallon of gasoline and a quart of used engine oil next a respectable diesel fuel. please note do not use this Fuel and anything with electronics use it in old engines only I have made black diesel before 5 gallons of used engine oil with one and a half gallons of gasoline sometimes two gallons of gasoline to get the proper viscosity
People have been using that technique to make char (cloth and straight char) and refine tar and crude oil for a very long time. The process is called destructive distillation. Collection of natural oils has never been done "that way" as you replied to another comment. Collection of natural oils is done through steam infusion and careful heat control, or by treatment of a dissolvable oil with an alcohol. Heating ANY long chain hydrocarbon will cause the molecular chain to break down forming smaller molecules. What you are effectively doing is creating wood oil. I already posted this information to Lonny as well, and is one of the reasons I never advise people to automatically trust youtube as a source of critical survival information. The contents of the oil will be a mix of sulfates, nitrates, sulfides, and creosotes, among a host of extremely flammable long to short chain hydrocarbons. Putting this stuff on your skin as Lonny suggested is a very, very bad idea. However, such a thing might be an alternate fuel source or a viable survival fuel for firestarting.
Fantastic comment, I learned a lot from it. Thanks so much! I imagine that the folks talking about putting it on your skin are talking about using the natural oils, the way we use vanilla? that's my guess at least.
Ok so I have been searching around the internets for quite some time trying to figure this out. I want to make some glue to use on arrow fletches and tips but I don't have a plethora of Birch trees here that I can find in south-western Ohio. I am just wondering, is there any other bark or substance I can do this with and get the oil from? Maybe Pine? The pine trees around here are all in fine condition and dont leak resin on a regular basis.
Well looking up on birch oil there are many uses for it. 1 is in soap and lotion.. or just as is for the skin. Birch oil is very good for the skin.. Yes.. It doesn't smell too good.. But refining it a bit and add any other sent to it. With it being cool take a mix of oil and sugar for a wonderful scrub on the body.. Don't use while pregnant.. White birch oil is useful for dermatitis, dull or congested skin, eczema, hair care and psoriasis, although it could irritate the skin. I believe it was
just a question once the can is burned can u used it again or is too soft cus of fire .... ive been thinking of geting cast iron =) one but odnt rly know where anyway we have a far with lots of birches today i went and saw phew dead soo ill cook them all =D what is this posible for using all i actualy tried to burn some birch outer layers and burns amazing more then spruce let me know all the uses pls im kinda sceptical to use old paint buckeet cus of polution
awesome video. but, very curious as to how birch oil is used? some say not to use to burn like oil, but use more like 'tar', adhesive? could this be thinned out with vegetable oil and used for engines? and yes, the poochie gave me a BIG smile :)
Phoebe WashburnGates I did a video where I mixed it with tiki oil and it burned in a lantern pretty well. Not as clean but it would really help out on extending your lamp oil supply. Thank you. Joe
+Phoebe WashburnGates The therapeutic properties of birch oil are analgesic, antiseptic, astringent, depurative, disinfectant, diuretic, febrifuge, insecticide and tonic.
Sonia Rumzi YES! Sonia....i've done a short study on trees and totally thrilled to discover the two trees i've always attracted to are birch and pine. these two trees in particular are ultra medicinal! love it! the birch for instance, the only tree to offer while alive, THE MOST POTENT fungus holding anti VIRAL properties as well as everything else you've mentioned. awesome. birch and pine...beautiful trees i always find entwined. interesting how two different species cohabitate. broad leaf & conifer :) the (2) types of fungi on birch are very hard to find. have you used it before?
I have been living in the Adirondacks the last five weeks and I use the bark from downed trees and have made some beautiful pieces. But as medicinal properties, I have not. This is a first for me to know and I am thrilled by this new information. I continued researching into the properties of the fungus too and that thrilled me even more. I am learning continuously and just love the people who share their amazing knowledge. Yes! pine and birch are wonderful.
+Phoebe WashburnGates You can use it to burn but honestly the effort/reward seems like it wouldn't be worthwhile at home, or in survival. The oil can be used for most of the things that the tar can, especially for treating wood. The tar is of course your only option from this process if you're planning to use it as a glue/sealant. Just be careful using it on your skin or cooking with it if you used any kind of cans/tins that had paint or even a thin coating of any kind of chemical treatment you might not be able to see even. At that temperature it'll melt down into the buried can with your oil.
Three obvious use would be to reduce it to a thicker tar and use it as a stain and wood protectant like pine tar and for a natural antiseptic similar to pine tar, and for soap/shampoo. I use pine tar on my wood skis and toboggan. You apply it to the wood surface, then use a torch to boil the tar into the wood, then wipe off the access. The Tar has antiseptic properties. That is how it preserves the wood. It is used on horses with split or damaged hooves. You could use it on your cuts and skin problems as both an antiseptic and skin repair. Of course, you could use it for making tar soap and shampoo. The tar soap is for it;s antiseptic properties and skin healing. The shampoo helps with dandruf
my wife bought some sap capsules for cold called Sapino. we used a few of them. did not realize they good for cuts ill use it next time if I cut me self
joulian0720 I have never tried pine needles so I really cant say. ive it a try and let me know whhat you get. I would think green pine cones would yield more.
JoeandZachSurvival i wouldnt use it for lamp oil, because birch oil is basically tar, it is made exactly the same way as tar, and tar has a really nasty smoke which is cancerous.
You can do the same with any wood but hardwoods are best. Also pine is a great source of oil, that is how the old wooden sailing ships were sealed is with pine tar/oil.
@JoeandZachSurvival I had to do a little more search and found a old post about birch beer. So I guess you could go that direction too. your video didn't have any introduction to the subject, so I was scratching my head as to what the uses would be. As an oil I was thinking frying? burning for light or heat... I was clueless
you should cut it in strips little shorter then the can and roll it together like a ace bandage you want a bigger hole in the bottem and use something like a coffee can on the bottem so you have a better base and to make sure bottem can dos not overfill. be sure you use a large rock from the start there's a lot of gases that build up but if the top pop as you so you will lose lots of oil vary fast do to the fire once oxygen gets into the system.
Fair warning, that oil is probably a combination of birch oil and creosote oil. Creosote is a skin irritant, as well as being toxic and likely carcinogenic. There's probably a way to separate them, though.
People have been making this for thousands of years, its certainly not a perfect oil in this crude way of making it but its a vital skill to know if you ever needed anything like this and did not need it to be super refined. Thank you. Jpoe
I could make pine infused essential oil but that is about as far as pine oil goes. Pine tar, now that is something that can be done. Nice hearing from you.
@@JoeandZachSurvival The essential oil. I was looking at this and thought it might be good for a wilderness medicine cabinet. ruclips.net/video/ONisoHrkPw8/видео.html
Where is a good place to find birch? We don't have any around here SE Idaho My husband is going to drive to Georgia and I could have him get me some on the way if I knew where to get it
I am recently fascinated about Birch tree and it's medicinal property in it, it seem to be useful for many things. I was wondering whether all kind of birch trees are the same in the sense of versatility?, such as Chinese red blood birch tree for instance. In here in New Zealand, people seem to be allergic to it and asking City council to remove the trees due to a threat to human's health and lives. Or could there be other reasons to their allergy instead of this tree as the sole reason for causing health disturbances? By the way, thanks for the great vid and your buddy is so cute :-)
+Srikandi Warion That tree isn't the sole reason for the health disturbances. If it's anything like the birch we got here in Sweden it's just the pollen that affects people. It's just like grass. I myself practically sneeze just by looking at a birch. But they are beautiful trees :)
Srikandi Warion Plantago major (don't know what it's called in english) is great for bites. Just rip it up and rub it onto the bite. It also works great for wrapping wounds. Just put a leaf from that under the rag/bandage covering the wound :)
cooked a bit too long.. the oil should be almost golden clear. If not its not goona hurt you. The main components of birch oil are salicylic acid, methyl salicylate, betulene and betulenol. So this is great for skin that is prone to break out. The therapeutic properties of birch oil are analgesic, antiseptic, astringent, depurative, disinfectant, diuretic, febrifuge, insecticide and tonic.
JoeandZachSurvival The Neanderthal used to mix it with pounded powdered dried grass and charcoal and it was used like a plastic to hold their spear points in the slot of the shaft after they had been bound on with sinew. Neanderthal Apocalypse 2015 ruclips.net/video/ylOltHQGkw8/видео.html @31:00
+Dale Wildey Then you risk too much heat escaping and the oil won't drain out from between the layers of bark. Also compromises the closed/buried system, so bugs and ash could get in your birch oil. It's also an oil that will set on fire very easily.
you should not pack it the way you did...do not lay it flat but lay it on end... that way the oil will drain better.... it would have charred a bit more it you did not lay the bark flat.... also get a paint can opener so you can reuse the top and not destroy it...Gary
The strained oil (strain out any impurities) can be used to make exceptional creams and salves for skin conditions . Birch bark was the original aspirin 😊
I dont understand the question???? WHY NOT? Walmart might be sold out. Watch the other videos. What a very strange and wierd question. huh. Thank you? Joe
Lots of white birch around my neck of the woods. I was with a logger one time when he tapped birch to make wine. It was great! I never knew about the information in your post. The land gives so much that most of us are not aware of. Thank you very kindly for sharing this knowledge.
Gas eventually starts to build up while the bark is pyrolysing, which creates pressure inside the can. Poke a small hole in the top of the can to let out the gas and you wont need to worry about the lid popping off.
The gas is flammable, so you'll see a flame coming out through the hole you've poked, this doesn't mean the bark is burning, it's just the gas. You can use this flame as an indicator that pyrolysis is still happening, so when the flame disappears completely you know the bark is full pyrolysed and the oil is fully extracted.
hole the bottom dose that forces the tar out the hole in to the can get be way do this on a wood stove make in the house not in cold dirt wet out side thinking back to old show i seen there was upside down tea pot with a run off spout that be the thing make gal of it or a heater box on the side of the stove
This is so cool! I bought an oil lamp and was looking for general info on that and found your birch oil video. I'm amazed at all the uses it has, so I'm certainly going to try this! You know I've made drawing charcoal before in basically a capped pipe so I'm thinking of multitasking and not only collect oil but use the remaining charcoal (powder) to draw/paint with. Thanks so much for sharing!
FYI, in case no one else has mentioned it - the jelly jar you used holds 8 ounces.
The list goes on and on. It is also helpful in cases of poor circulation, the accumulation of toxins in the muscles, for arthritis, rheumatism, muscular pains, edema and cellulite. I hope this helps.. GREAT VIDEO!!! Thank you Joe and Zach ;)
Thanks for sharing this vid!!!! Im very impressed,I beleive we should all get back to our roots in some way or another,this shows how hard life was back in the day,I mean this could take weeks to store enough for everyday usage.....Everyone is so caught up in day to day life and the American Dream.......to me this is wonderful!!! Thanks again,i can wait to try it this summer!!
Awesome video, I have not done this yet but I read that the same thing can be done with the roots of pine to make a tar that kept the British Navy afloat for hundreds of years.
Since four days now I had plans to do this, but I haven´t come to do a search on how to do it and now this video just pop up in my feed. Amazing. That´s exactly what I need. Something is telling me to really do it, right? I was told its good to have on your axe-handle and as lamp-oil. Great video. Thanks for sharing! ATB, Ulrica
Wondering whether the remaining bark would make suitable bio-char/charcoal?
charliemor3 I thought that too as he was dumping it out!
The native same people of Norway has used this oil on skin cancer. tried to find info or a link on it but there i cant find anything on the topic.
Was a shaman from Finnmark in Norway that was telling us about it. He put the oil on the spot where the cancer was and then he covered that again with the inner bark of the tree. Changing this every other day until the spot was cancer free.
Dont know if it works but there you go, thats at least the story about it. :)
+blazez4fun If you find the link please send it to my email, I find that very interesting. Thank you. joe@homeandcabinconstruction.com
+blazez4fun I'd be interested in sources for that story as well.
Awesome, I wonder what other kinds of bark can be treated this way to yield oil?
I use that oil to gluing arrowheads.
Great video, Greetins from Poland.
I know this is seven years later and all, but how do you make glue from Birch oil? Just adding charcoal like you do with pine tar or ?
- Thanks ^^
Great video, not many people mention how important it is to keep the heat away from the refined oil by burying the top can a little. Too much heat and you end up with birch tar and not oil. A slower burn will also help with the pressure although as gamblemadman ? wrote, a little hole on top will also serve as with char cloth.
Yes I watched the other video. I wonder if you mixed with gas line antifreeze "heat" in the yellow bottle (small amount) with pure oil and ran thru sand filter if it would clear it up enough to run 100%. The "heat" would evaporate if left uncovered. I'll have to give a try this spring. Thanks very interesting video.
cool video, I have around 30-40 lbs of chaga mushroom that I harvested from birch trees here in western MA. I drink it as a tea. It is supposed to be like a superfood
want to try this : pine tar , birch tar , beeswax, turpentine and boiled linseed oil mixed equal parts heated , you can waterproof anything from tent seams, to bags leather and wood
7 years later bro, did you do it?
If not, you need to start living your life.
Yes it is but I assure you its not explosive lol. I have a video where I mix it with tiki oil and use it in a lantern, you can check that out and see what you think. Thank You. Joe
I know you dumped the charcoal but for the future i wonder if that could also be used like charcloth to catch a spark and start your fires?
I like when people follow up on experiments they see on RUclips because I'm a big fan of doing that as well. What are some of the possible applications for the oil?
what do you use the oil for now that you have it. That is great video they are logging around here and there is tons of it I'm going to try it.
I believe the reason you cover the bottom of the big tin in dirt is so you don't get oxygen in there otherwise the oil would set on fire. I may be wrong but fire triangle tells us that fuel, heat and oxygen= fire!! Don't wanna take your paint tin off and find you've burn off all your hard work! Good video pal.
Simple lamp oil, though I do not recommend using it in a lamp with a globe, Birch oil is quite smoky and will blacken your globe quite quickly. I see that someone else in an earlier comment already suggested poking a vent hole towards the top of the can...Without the ability to draw outside air, the oil is forced to stay "in the fire" much longer than is prudent. Thanx for the video...too much knowledge is rarely a bad thing when it comes to survival.
I cook mine for 1 hour. Thats plenty for me. Your bark seems pretty charred so you could use less burn time. Xtra burn time you could lose some oil through burning +evaporation. Good luck and great video. Cool getting some useful product yourself huh? I treat my wood axe handles with the oil. Really brings out the grain. Great protectant.
+Chip McClain I really do enjoy making that and also making the pine tar using the same method. Its always very cool getting things from nature the way it was done way back when. Thank you Chip. Joe
Very cool. Has anyone tried this with poplar (aspen) bark? Did you taste the oil? Do you know if the oil is edible?
roll the bark, with the outer side outermost (as it is onthe tree) into one roll, this helps get as much in the tin as possible(less air gaps) but is a bit fiddly as it tries to unroll (you can tie it with twine)
thanks for the video!
I wonder if that would make for nice waterproofing of fabrics, leather, etc... What all kinds of uses have ya got figured out for it so far? Glue, waterproofing, fire starter, lacquer (will it harden?), edible (probably doesn't smell like it huh)?
Thank you for the answer! I'll be sure to check it out!
if you keep it in the can by the fire (being careful not to let it catch light) you can turn it more viscous by evaporating some off, and it eventually reaches the stage where it is hard when at room temp. which is good for glue and waterproofing!
very interesting video. I'm wondering about the uses...
would it work if the bark was shredded into small pieces
?. Get more in the can perhaps.What can you use it for.
Yes it works
could the barch char be used like char cloth?
I have a question. Does the oil turn hard at room temperature?
great job Joe I've been watching your channel for a while I made a batch of birch oil like this a long time ago I made about a half a gallon of it mixed it with a half a gallon of gasoline and a quart of used engine oil next a respectable diesel fuel. please note do not use this Fuel and anything with electronics use it in old engines only I have made black diesel before 5 gallons of used engine oil with one and a half gallons of gasoline sometimes two gallons of gasoline to get the proper viscosity
People have been using that technique to make char (cloth and straight char) and refine tar and crude oil for a very long time. The process is called destructive distillation. Collection of natural oils has never been done "that way" as you replied to another comment. Collection of natural oils is done through steam infusion and careful heat control, or by treatment of a dissolvable oil with an alcohol. Heating ANY long chain hydrocarbon will cause the molecular chain to break down forming smaller molecules. What you are effectively doing is creating wood oil. I already posted this information to Lonny as well, and is one of the reasons I never advise people to automatically trust youtube as a source of critical survival information. The contents of the oil will be a mix of sulfates, nitrates, sulfides, and creosotes, among a host of extremely flammable long to short chain hydrocarbons. Putting this stuff on your skin as Lonny suggested is a very, very bad idea. However, such a thing might be an alternate fuel source or a viable survival fuel for firestarting.
Fantastic comment, I learned a lot from it. Thanks so much! I imagine that the folks talking about putting it on your skin are talking about using the natural oils, the way we use vanilla? that's my guess at least.
Iv seen people try to light it and it's no good for a oil , they even say you can cover a wooden pot with it and use it to cook lol
I liked this video. But what are you supposed to use the birch oil for?
Ok so I have been searching around the internets for quite some time trying to figure this out. I want to make some glue to use on arrow fletches and tips but I don't have a plethora of Birch trees here that I can find in south-western Ohio.
I am just wondering, is there any other bark or substance I can do this with and get the oil from?
Maybe Pine? The pine trees around here are all in fine condition and dont leak resin on a regular basis.
i'm curious to know if it might be possible to do something similar to some pine
limbs or wood to get resin
think you could do a video?
There's a video on you tube about that.
Well looking up on birch oil there are many uses for it. 1 is in soap and lotion.. or just as is for the skin. Birch oil is very good for the skin.. Yes.. It doesn't smell too good.. But refining it a bit and add any other sent to it. With it being cool take a mix of oil and sugar for a wonderful scrub on the body.. Don't use while pregnant.. White birch oil is useful for dermatitis, dull or congested skin, eczema, hair care and psoriasis, although it could irritate the skin. I believe it was
What happens if you try this with other barks?
just a question once the can is burned can u used it again or is too soft cus of fire .... ive been thinking of geting cast iron =) one but odnt rly know where anyway we have a far with lots of birches today i went and saw phew dead soo ill cook them all =D what is this posible for using all i actualy tried to burn some birch outer layers and burns amazing more then spruce let me know all the uses pls im kinda sceptical to use old paint buckeet cus of polution
Excellent. I'll give it a shot.
Awesome video. Thank you so much dude. That was great.
Makes ya wonder what else you could extract oils from like that. vegetables, fish,nuts??
How did NA's do this before they had metal??
You can do with mud and clay, same thing, a hole in the bottom.
awesome video. but, very curious as to how birch oil is used? some say not to use to burn like oil, but use more like 'tar', adhesive? could this be thinned out with vegetable oil and used for engines? and yes, the poochie gave me a BIG smile :)
Phoebe WashburnGates I did a video where I mixed it with tiki oil and it burned in a lantern pretty well. Not as clean but it would really help out on extending your lamp oil supply. Thank you. Joe
+Phoebe WashburnGates The therapeutic properties of birch oil are analgesic, antiseptic, astringent, depurative, disinfectant, diuretic, febrifuge, insecticide and tonic.
Sonia Rumzi
YES! Sonia....i've done a short study on trees and totally thrilled to discover the two trees i've always attracted to are birch and pine. these two trees in particular are ultra medicinal! love it! the birch for instance, the only tree to offer while alive, THE MOST POTENT fungus holding anti VIRAL properties as well as everything else you've mentioned. awesome. birch and pine...beautiful trees i always find entwined. interesting how two different species cohabitate. broad leaf & conifer :) the (2) types of fungi on birch are very hard to find. have you used it before?
I have been living in the Adirondacks the last five weeks and I use the bark from downed trees and have made some beautiful pieces. But as medicinal properties, I have not. This is a first for me to know and I am thrilled by this new information. I continued researching into the properties of the fungus too and that thrilled me even more. I am learning continuously and just love the people who share their amazing knowledge. Yes! pine and birch are wonderful.
+Phoebe WashburnGates You can use it to burn but honestly the effort/reward seems like it wouldn't be worthwhile at home, or in survival. The oil can be used for most of the things that the tar can, especially for treating wood. The tar is of course your only option from this process if you're planning to use it as a glue/sealant. Just be careful using it on your skin or cooking with it if you used any kind of cans/tins that had paint or even a thin coating of any kind of chemical treatment you might not be able to see even. At that temperature it'll melt down into the buried can with your oil.
What are u using it for?
How did it work out for the way you used it? How did you use it?
Paul, maybe it could be used for a torch? Like soak a cat tail and ignight?
Looks cool but is it oil or wood alcohol with carbon? Interesting to see it filtered. Maybe sand and moss? Then see if it could burn in a lamp. ????
is the oil very flammable?
Three obvious use would be to reduce it to a thicker tar and use it as a stain and wood protectant like pine tar and for a natural antiseptic similar to pine tar, and for soap/shampoo.
I use pine tar on my wood skis and toboggan. You apply it to the wood surface, then use a torch to boil the tar into the wood, then wipe off the access.
The Tar has antiseptic properties. That is how it preserves the wood. It is used on horses with split or damaged hooves. You could use it on your cuts and skin problems as both an antiseptic and skin repair.
Of course, you could use it for making tar soap and shampoo. The tar soap is for it;s antiseptic properties and skin healing. The shampoo helps with dandruf
my wife bought some sap capsules for cold called Sapino. we used a few of them. did not realize they good for cuts ill use it next time if I cut me self
can same thing be done with pine needles?
joulian0720 I have never tried pine needles so I really cant say. ive it a try and let me know whhat you get. I would think green pine cones would yield more.
I tried it as well, but most I got out of it was a clear liquid. Does anybody knows what that might be (smells really bad like burnt rubber)
Have you tried making pine resin?
Is it flammable?
That's really cool..now what might you use birch oil for?
SwampDonkey530 Lamp oil, lubricant etc. Thank you.
JoeandZachSurvival
i wouldnt use it for lamp oil, because birch oil is basically tar, it is made exactly the same way as tar, and tar has a really nasty smoke which is cancerous.
www.motherearthnews.com/natural-health/herbal-remedies/birch-trees-natural-medicine-ze0z1401zbla
bio diesel from a diesel generator?
Could you sue it as likea primitave torch?
You need to put a hole in the lid as well for pressure build up.
You can do the same with any wood but hardwoods are best. Also pine is a great source of oil, that is how the old wooden sailing ships were sealed is with pine tar/oil.
@JoeandZachSurvival I had to do a little more search and found a old post about birch beer. So I guess you could go that direction too. your video didn't have any introduction to the subject, so I was scratching my head as to what the uses would be. As an oil I was thinking frying? burning for light or heat... I was clueless
you should cut it in strips little shorter then the can and roll it together like a ace bandage you want a bigger hole in the bottem and use something like a coffee can on the bottem so you have a better base and to make sure bottem can dos not overfill. be sure you use a large rock from the start there's a lot of gases that build up but if the top pop as you so you will lose lots of oil vary fast do to the fire once oxygen gets into the system.
I would think pine needles might work as well
Fair warning, that oil is probably a combination of birch oil and creosote oil. Creosote is a skin irritant, as well as being toxic and likely carcinogenic. There's probably a way to separate them, though.
People have been making this for thousands of years, its certainly not a perfect oil in this crude way of making it but its a vital skill to know if you ever needed anything like this and did not need it to be super refined. Thank you. Jpoe
JoeandZachSurvival Fair enough. I just wonder if there might be a better way to make this.
Just don't role around in it then.
Is it edible ?.
can you show us how to make pine oil please?
I could make pine infused essential oil but that is about as far as pine oil goes. Pine tar, now that is something that can be done. Nice hearing from you.
@@JoeandZachSurvival The essential oil. I was looking at this and thought it might be good for a wilderness medicine cabinet. ruclips.net/video/ONisoHrkPw8/видео.html
neanderthals also had a similar glue made with birch bark that they used for their spears
great vid brother as always.
Where is a good place to find birch? We don't have any around here SE Idaho
My husband is going to drive to Georgia and I could have him get me some on the way if I knew where to get it
+onetwothree57 I live in Minnesota and its everywhere here. I am not sure down that far south. Thank you. Joe
OK Thanks
Wow i wonder how many miles you can get out of that ;)
I can't remember when I had so much fun and still been sober !
That was awsome !
good video, thanks i may try it some day.
Thanks Chris, its fun to try and fairly easy.
Is that a picture on that rock behind the can 3 minutes 52 seconds
I am recently fascinated about Birch tree and it's medicinal property in it, it seem to be useful for many things. I was wondering whether all kind of birch trees are the same in the sense of versatility?, such as Chinese red blood birch tree for instance. In here in New Zealand, people seem to be allergic to it and asking City council to remove the trees due to a threat to human's health and lives. Or could there be other reasons to their allergy instead of this tree as the sole reason for causing health disturbances? By the way, thanks for the great vid and your buddy is so cute :-)
+Srikandi Warion So what kind of medicinal property did you find ? Anything to do with that oil after pyrolysation ?
+Srikandi Warion That tree isn't the sole reason for the health disturbances. If it's anything like the birch we got here in Sweden it's just the pollen that affects people. It's just like grass. I myself practically sneeze just by looking at a birch. But they are beautiful trees :)
Kalle Äger I thought so :-)
Erandi Exacts I think noticed in my discovery that it stops the itchiness from any type of bites. But might not work as good on other skin type.
Srikandi Warion Plantago major (don't know what it's called in english) is great for bites. Just rip it up and rub it onto the bite. It also works great for wrapping wounds. Just put a leaf from that under the rag/bandage covering the wound :)
i think you can do this with pine too and pine oil the same way
+joe white (countryuncle) I have a video on that as well. You use the roots, not the bark. Thank you. Joe
i will look for it thanks
That's what we used to do in Spain until the 1950's Digging up the roots of felled stumps helps new trees growth and prevent disease
Thanks man. Making a primitve hunting indian village and like theese ideas!
cooked a bit too long.. the oil should be almost golden clear. If not its not goona hurt you. The main components of birch oil are salicylic acid, methyl salicylate, betulene and betulenol. So this is great for skin that is prone to break out. The therapeutic properties of birch oil are analgesic, antiseptic, astringent, depurative, disinfectant, diuretic, febrifuge, insecticide and tonic.
glad I subscribed, good stuff :-)
id use a shine still
JoeandZachSurvival
The Neanderthal used to mix it with pounded powdered dried grass and charcoal and it was used like a plastic to hold their spear points in the slot of the shaft after they had been bound on with sinew.
Neanderthal Apocalypse 2015
ruclips.net/video/ylOltHQGkw8/видео.html @31:00
Can I purchase your birch oil
I would have to make more, this was years ago.
Should put a hole on top of the can too. Won't pop the lid off
+Dale Wildey You want those fumes in there.
+Dale Wildey Then you risk too much heat escaping and the oil won't drain out from between the layers of bark. Also compromises the closed/buried system, so bugs and ash could get in your birch oil. It's also an oil that will set on fire very easily.
I think the birch oil would be great for a wood stain.
yeah man pine sap works great. look up wilderness survival channel with dave canterbury and you'll find pretty much everything you want to know
Don't you mean "hot " ?
Oh wow..I never knew
You can make a pvc briquet compacter and loose nothing for pennies.
you should not pack it the way you did...do not lay it flat but lay it on end... that way the oil will drain better.... it would have charred a bit more it you did not lay the bark flat.... also get a paint can opener so you can reuse the top and not destroy it...Gary
This staff used traditionally to keep mosquitoes away, no side effects or environmental problems.
please sell me 50 ml, I want to try it for curing eczema, psoriasis and pimples
that is charcoal in the paint can highly flammable
Use it as a Mosquito repellant.
The strained oil (strain out any impurities) can be used to make exceptional creams and salves for skin conditions . Birch bark was the original aspirin 😊
Your dog is beautiful - man's best friend
i don't understand the excitement. "why?" is my question.
I dont understand the question???? WHY NOT? Walmart might be sold out. Watch the other videos. What a very strange and wierd question. huh. Thank you? Joe
Well when the dude says l don't know then who the hell does know if he doesn't know He,Ha well that I know.
You should not remove bark from live trees if you want to have them later. It is a reason for it to stay there.
Did you even watch the video moron? He harvested all of that bark from dead trees.
Dude, you do realize you could get more in your can if you rolled your bark instead of just packing it in like garbage. LOL!
sell me 200ml please