Uses for "pine" sap?

The pine and oak pollen season in North Carolina has already come and gone. That golden dust just makes my eye water and nose run. Is that the testosterone?

SDSmlf said:

The pine and oak pollen season in North Carolina has already come and gone. That golden dust just makes my eye water and nose run. Is that the testosterone?

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Well if that is testosterone…… I must be full of it every spring!

I believe natives used it to glue feathers on to arrows and then wrapping them with sinew.

Gene L said:

I believe natives used it to glue feathers on to arrows and then wrapping them with sinew.

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Now we are back to the OP’s topic of pine sap, good. Had to think for a minute how one would use testosterone to glue feathers to arrows.

While this is a stretch for pine sap, I have been collecting oak bark for some vegetable leather tanning. Was told that it was best to collect bark in the spring when it was full of sap. Got a couple of feed bags full of the stuff after I ran it through the shredder. Got some deer hides in the bottom of the freezer (labeled venison) that I may just start processing. Need to research a bit more.

Brokennock said:

That's just his way. Can't handle being questioned or criticized.

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Thin skin...makes for a short fuse. Anyhow, I had several White pine trees and when I’d mow, I’d get that sap all over me.. wish I knew about the butter trick earlier.

when our dr. called to give me the lab report he gave it to my wife. she said to him, i could have told you that before hand. nothing special about me. this stuff was discovered in the 1700/s by a french botinist. again it is the only supplement that really really works. take it in the morning, give it about 7 days, you will feel a lot more alive. helps fight bone loss and makes you daily routine less effort. makes women feel way more alive also. one time when i worked on a critical care floor a 80 year old women got a injection for testosteron by a accident due to the nure gave it to the wrong person. the results was for the next few days every time her husband came to visit she was pinching him and trying to put her hands in his pants. pine pollen is not as dramatic but it does work. as to pollen and bark from other kinds of trees, i dont know you all tell me. natives used this stuff all the time. i know juniper and cedar berries give you a real jump start in the morning.

What was injectable testosterone intended to be used for in the 'critical care' unit?

That's a very good question, Baxter.

S.Kenton said:

Thin skin...makes for a short fuse.

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High levels of testosterone make a person cranky. My mom said she chewed pine pitch as a gum when she was a child. She managed to survive a bout of typhoid. No idea if the two are connected.

Bo T said:

High levels of testosterone make a person cranky. My mom said she chewed pine pitch as a gum when she was a child. She managed to survive a bout of typhoid. No idea if the two are connected.

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I don’t know if there are any qualities in pine sap that would be medicinal, however, there’s TONS of vitamin C In the needles of a white pine. Do a google search on white pine needles and vitamin C, it gives a recipe for natural vitamin C.. not the tastiest... but not horrible either.

im not in the rest home. in fact im going to the gym when im done here and today im doing 1200 pulls and slides on the rowing machine then finish with several set of curls. a person must earn their supper is the way i feel. it has worked so far with me.

rich pierce said:

Melted and mixed with equal volumes of ground charcoal and ground deer droppings it makes a strong filler-adhesive or hot glue.

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Mixing a bit of ground charcoal with pine rosin makes it less sticky to the hands when dry.

Actually, what I should say is dust the charcoal on the outside of the rosin, not mix it in.

He's 80...he been questioned 79 yrs+ Old guys know stuff, some old guys add stuff to what they know to make BS. Not saying Blackhillsbob, but I heard alot of old fsmily stories evolve and combine till I'm not sure what happened to who, why, when or if it matters! The stories were better when I was a kid and they hadn't yet evolved/combined etc.

I LIKE OLD FOLKS!!

I'm an Old Folk, 74 Wednesday. Maybe instead of increasing one's testosterone at 80, he should be supplementing his diet with Prevagen.

I almost ruined a shredder by running a few Christmas trees through it before the sap dried up in them. That is some strong stuff. They make an excellant mulch but do let them dry out first.

You can put the sap on your smooth-soled leather shoes to improve traction.

Some circus acts like trapeze artists do use a rosin for a better grip dont they? Do high wire walkers use anything as well? And what do fiddlers "rosin up the bow" with?

Fiddlers rosin up their bows with pine rosin. You can buy rosin bags at sports stores for grips on baseball bats. I don't know what trapeze folks use. I'd imagine the same.

Being from Georgia originally, I've been to tapped pine forests and sap processing facilities. Longleaf and slash pine are the ones that they tap. I remember the HUGE outdoor boilers filled with golden, bubbling sap; the heat could be felt 25 yards away. In addition to turpentine, pitch, varnishes and various types of amber, the distillates went into many pharmaceuticals and household products. A popular first aid product called "Astyptodyne" was and is still made. Georgia remains the main supplier of "naval stores", producing all but a small percent of all naval stores worldwide.

Rosin is much used in sports and could be used in homemade gunstock finishes and fillers. I have no idea if it could be used on porous materials such a leather. Still usable for wooden boats, though, as wooden shipbuilding is mostly a thing of the past. Both petroleum and pine tar use is only limited by one's imagination.