Making birch oil for the homestead!
Nowadays in modern times the soap is the most useful. It smells manly and it really helps against mosquitoes or city women :D. I also tend to use it on axe handles it gives grip in rainy conditions.
Making of the pine tar and birch oil.
Both are made in the same way but they have a different source. Birch oil is mainly made of rolled up bark of the birch tree. You need quite a bit of bark to get a decent volume of oil it makes it more expensive than pine tar. Pine tar is made of the fatwood of pine trees. Most of the fatwood are in the roots or where a branch use to be. Fatwood is easy to recognize it looks fat, shiny and darker than the surrounding wood.
For birch oil you first need to fill a 10 liter can to make almost a liter of birch oil. For pine-tar you only need a 5 liter can to make a liter of tar.
Destructive distillation
It sounds very high tech, but it basically means that you heat something up without contact to oxygen. The heated wood will than decompose into charcoal, gas and tar/oil. For this to work we need to 2 cans. A big can with some holes in the bottom and a smaller can to collect the tar.
- Step 1:
Make a hole in the middle of the big can. You make this hole with hammering a nail from the inside out. This way the oil can drip down later. Than fill the can with material and close it off with a lid or a flat piece of metal. - Step 2:
Bury the small can in the ground and place the big can on top. They have to stay connected during the fire so place them in a stable position. It should look a bit like on the picture. - Step 3:
Make a good fire around it for several hours and let it cool down. The next day you can check if the process worked. It's all very hot so just be patient. Tar burns are the worst you can imagine so simply don't try to rush the process and wait a day till its cooled down.
A good video about how Ray Mars makes it with very little materials. (A second good video)
If your not a fan of science projects and you simply want to buy it than pay attention it's really pinetar. Most tars are based on petroleum and aren't healthy in anyway.
Make it once big this saves allot of time. :)
yes dear @gogreenbuddy , absolutely i am will do try in my home.
thanks for you advise in steemit community.
I think the cost of this oil processing will be very economic .
@gogreenbuddy Purchase a diffuser and sweet birch oil and add the oil to the diffuser. The diffuser will break the oil into micro-molecules and send them into the air, which will provide the sauna type smell you desire.
Where did you learn that stuff?? Sounds interesting.
Helps against city women, haha, I love it! This sounds very similar to making biochar. I’m guessing it is the same, you’re just also collecting the tar/oil. I had no idea you could get oil/tar from trees either!
I throw the charcoal in the garden. I wasn't sure if it was biochar. Need hundreds of liters of bio char for my garden
Very interesting. I have never done this but think it is a great idea. I really enjoy your post. Keep them coming.
Thanks it's all much easier than it sounds and the risks are practically zero...:)
Anytime we can use less chemicals and more of what is available naturals it is a good thing.
Awesome effort. I hope these homestead work give out lots of success in life.
GO AHEAD @gogreenbuddy
BEST OF LUCK.
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Love the pictures and thoughts of homestead !! this is impressive because I know what it takes to have a homestead in our every person life .... Your Making birch look very happy too. This is a job well done.thanks for sharing helpful homestead video clip.
You make articles that provide natural remedies for many problems..... I always learn something whenever you post any article..... @gogreenbuddy keep doing this you are doing a great initiative of sharing your knowledge
Thanks happy to help the community here! You keep me motivated I really appreciate the comments and likes.
Thank you for the post it's good to see traditional skills like this. Too many skills are being lost, at least this one, thanks to the block chain and you, will be preserved for others to try and learn from.
Thanks It's easy to try.
Looks easy enough, I think the challenge will be finding the fat wood.
No just walk through a pine forest and find a fallen tree. Than cut of it roots :)
Do you know if river birch bark will work? I have some of these trees, the park is very much like paper.
It usually rots slower than the wood within yes. It should look like paper that's the correct stuff. I think you found your treasure!
very very interesting and great idea for homesteading work.i like your thought and loveing your.just i say your blog are amazing
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Thank you means allot to me.
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