![]() ![]() Of course as the video shows, you can drink the sap directly from the tree. You can even use the sticky resin from a pine tree to close a wound on yourself if you have no other way of closing it. If you heat it to a thick liquid then use it to bind materials together when it tries it forms a tight bond, very similar to hot glue. You can use the natural sticky resin directly off the tree as an adhesive. You can even make a pitch torch by covering the end of a stick with pitch. You could probably use the resin alone, but I would prefer to bind it, then use the pitch. If you needed to affix an arrowhead to an arrow shaft, after you wrap the shaft with binding material, you can then use the resin to make pitch to more firmly secure it. Some uses for this resin are using it for an adhesive, as previously mentioned. I don’t think I would recommend doing this much damage to a tree. Here is a video showing the “V” notch method but in an extreme way. The terms pitch and resin are often used interchangeably. If you were to collect that resin and mix it with charcoal dust, then it becomes a form of pitch. If you find naturally occurring injury areas on the tree, you can collect the hardened resin from that area. Then use another piece of stick that you have sharpened to a point and flattened, insert that stick into the bottom of the “V,” and the sap will run and drip off the stick into a collection vessel. If you find that you MUST wound a tree to collect sap for pitch, or whatever use you intend, one method for doing so is to use your hatchet or knife and cut a “V” into the tree. It can be done at other times of the year, but with greatly reduced results. It should be mentioned that the best time for collecting sap is in the early spring when the sap is running. If you must collect resin from trees, look at several trees and try to find an area that is already secreting sap and gather that, rather than injuring the tree yourself for the intention of gathering sap for pitch or other uses. If you use it for materials needed for, say, making pitch to seal a vessel, or a canoe, or for affixing an arrowhead to an arrow, you must respect it and treat it as such so that it continues to live and breathe and provide materials for you. This is why in survival situations if you are utilizing natural elements, you must consider the damage you are doing to the tree. ![]() If you were to cut through the bark and outer most layer of a tree, all the way around the tree, the tree will die. ![]() Sap runs through the outer layer of a tree. Sap is the lifeblood of trees and other plants, but usually when we refer to sap we are thinking in terms of a tree. Sap is where pancake syrup comes from, resin clogs your smoking pipes, and pitch is what you do with a ball, right? Well, not quite, close though. ![]()
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