I admire your knowledge and skill, Jack. Thanks for the time and effort it took to post this much appreciated video.

it burns for hours and the smell is wow !!! I can breath that all day long

you can saturate the fungus with sap or cooking oil and burn it . however this burns the fuel faster and wrecks the entire fungus. slowly adding fuel conserves the fuel use and prolongs the life of the fungus wick. you can slice the fungus into thin strips and use sap or oil to make lamps in a non-flameable bowl or shallow tray. I use three small stones to stand the wick up and hold it in place.

I haven't seen beter educational vid about Pine sap usage for a while including that torch !!!! Thank you man I have learned something new watching your vid. 5 STARS *****

the sap burns great in both forms. i tap the trees when natural seeps dont yeald the volume of my need, it is safe to tap the trees from three to five times depending on the size and species (balsm fir has sap blisters that form on the outer layer of bark , no taping nessesary)

I'm not for marring all the trees in the forest for gallons of the stuff unless I really had to, but in a hard place this info would come in handy. Great vid TJ.

from one pint to half a gallon maybe . each tree can vary, species too, the spruce drips with sap , white pine is another high volume producer of sap. turpentine is made from boiling pine sap, then condensing the vapor into a liquid (similar to distilling ) used as paint thinner. tree tapping was and is a major trade today. mainly maple and birch , but turpentine is still an important product. thousands of gallons are produced each year

Great video Jack, very informative! Thanks for taking the time to make, and post for us!

finally a use for a follgers container

I've seen alot of "bushcraft" videos, but this is the first of your's that I've seen. I think this was one of the best. Thanks for the great info!

this does not kill the trees.

Thank you very much for teaching me today. I did not know ANY of this. If Minneapolis went dark, in our winters, for an extended amount of time, this helps allot to know. I'm subscribing. Thanks for teaching a city gal new tricks!

I was wondering where you were(FL) I'm in South Jawja ;-) Those woods look very familiar! Pine is an amazing tree of life. There's an old medicine, Astyptodyne, which is derived from pine sap. Discovered when a fire hit a turpentine plant, 3 men burned by steam, one fell into a vat of something similar to the medicine. The other 2 suffered greatly, but the one that fell in the vat recovered with less pain. Antiseptic, Styptic(stops bleeding), Anodyne(stops pain). Awesome Stuff!

Great video, brother. Thanks for sharing your wisdom with us. I would feel very blessed to have you as a fellow woodsman in a time of trouble, no doubt. Take care. I look forward to more videos of a master outdoors man.

Wow Eugene I am impressed with your knowledge of pine sap! Thanks, I learned some useful knowledge today :D

Wow!! This is excellent information. Thanks Brother!

Nice video gene! I have been watching you for years now. This is a very helpful video and I think we all need to learn more about survival and living with nature. Thank you for the great information

Trapper Jack you are awesome! Thanks for the vid!

hope this guy is still alive and well, awesome videos

Man, that is great! Thanks for making this video! Very helpful!!!

Well spoken and well edited. Excellent video. Thank you for being a smart capable human being and sharing the information.

pine sap torches do repel insects

When I think of "bushcraft" this is the kind of stuff I'm thinking about. There are so many out there rehashing the same crap... this video is awesome. Thanks from Chicago. By the way, is it safe to swallow the pine sap like maple or birch?

Thanks for your excelent videos jack, I enjoy them very much.

This is the kind of guy who survives the zombie apocalypse.

Super informative...thanks for sharing your knowledge!

crushed walnut shells, or some other hard natural material will work fine, the bone dust is very strong when compressed in the mix, nut shells will do the same job.

Thanks for the video jack, now i can put all these damn pine trees here in Florida to work!

Thks jack. I luv ur vids. Keepem coming

Great video! Thank you for the information that could save lives in survival situations !

Thx, i will have a book coming out soon. i am featureing this and many more topics in it, it will be available everywhere.

Thanks for passing on your knowledge.

I love ur show hillbilly blood, great info and great show :)

Excellent. One of the real bushcraft channels

Thank! you for share your skills. Every little bit of knowledge helps.

Thank! you for share your skills. Every little bit of knowledge helps

good vid. thanks for passing it on.

You're a true CAVEMAN!

Wow man. Thanks for sharing, that's awesome!

Great as usual.

Very informative, thank you. You are one smart fellow.

Thank you great information

You have lost a lot of weight! Please take care of yourself we want you to stay around a long time. Godspeed!!!

Great vid man!

You have lost a lot of weight. Please don't sacrifice your health for your calling. We want you around a lot longer! Godspeed!

great video, thanks trapperjack

the best part of waking up is pine sap in your cup (:

Educational Gold..., thanks man.

Great video !!! I am learning about bushcraft.

Nice I learned a lot from this thanks a lot for posting it. I would love to see you post one that you use the resins you described. I am particularly interested in the one mixed with bone and sand.

Great video, very informative. thanks man.

awesome video!

Great video, very useful.

What about creating a bowl from the brachen fungus, allowing you to pool up a larger amount of resin on it for a longer burn? Looking forewards to more videos.pine sap is amazing

You are so SMART.....GREAT VIDEO.

Interesting. Thank you for the vid.

Hey Jack, I believe you can extract resin from the roots of pine trees by heating them. The hot sap becomes less viscous and leaks out of the roots to the bottom of the pan. This could be a more time efficient method of getting pitch. I don't know how i'd go about doing this in a survival situation though...

Thanks, Trapper. Clark

thanks for your precious teaching I wonder if I can tap other pine family trees ciao from Dolomites Italia

Those torches look like caveman status lol

Very informative.

thanks for the great vid!

in florida there is a plant called the Creosote bush, the leaves are ovate and have a sticky feel to the touch. it is a great tick repelant. in PA i use leaves from the sweet gum or the black gum tree . lightly crush the leaves and rub on the skin, or tie the branch tips around your pantlegs. this will repell the ticks, also Canfor will do the same job but the sap can irritate the skin with direct exposure.

Great vid.

thanks for the tip man. this will come in handy when im out there in the mountains. i'll be gone for some time durning Armageddon. have a good life people! its coming rather you want to believe it or not. all hell is about to brake lose SooN!

One of the best bushcraft/survival videos I've seen so far on YT - thanks!

Thanks brother. Oskaares comment reflects a common feeling amongst many of us I'm sure, including yourself.

the canadian red pine has the best scent and flavor , but all pines make good tea.

Light for hours I have used it in the woods---lots of light for hours so cool hope you read this

a fallen pine's heart liter may be worth a few trips if available. thanks for your time and efforts. take care

very innovative, very cool!!!

loving the show brother if yall need a fill in ever holler lol.

Most of my survival skills are more northern. Like the wild vegis, winter survival, myriad uses for birch, etc... Now I live in FL and know very little regarding surviving here. I cannot tell you how much I appreciate your vids bro. What part of FL you in? Those look like northern fl. woods. I'm in the Daytona area, and because I don't know alot about these parts, the woods suck, mostly palms of various sort. I'ma check your channel more often. Thanks for your effort and time bro.

nice video man!

this was really cool! :D

Good info- Thanks.

glad ya did some of Florida----yup pine all over the place down here,did you have a chance to find & burn any fatlighter"lighter knot" old sapped up pine wood-the stuff is great for startin good hot fires .---well you prob know already---keep up the vids people got to learn about whats around them & best ways to use sustanible resources -relearn the old ways---keep on doing your stuff enjoyed the show

ama z ING I just learned something new thanks

i have looked at the blowgun shooting vid and the blowdart vid. its a very useful weapon.

trapper jack is awsome

u could attach a reservoir of sap to the torch for portability. nice vid

your a good man jack

you can beat off pine knots off of dead pine trees they will burn for hours that is an old skill or craft that has been lost but it does work very well

Thank! you for share your skills.

Nice video, we do the same here. But it is forbidden here, so I am always do it always in a forrest where not people are walking.

You rock man.

pine sap contains Turpentine, , which is a popuar thinner for oil based paints, it is very flameable. and as you said maple sap contains water.

Bump up good vid!

Good stuff, sir. So this doesn't kill the tree? I don't have time right now to look through you videos, but do you have a step-by-step guide as to how you made your torch? Anyways, thank you for the time you've spend making these videos. They're very helpful and I plan on utilizing these tips and tricks when I can. Keep 'em coming, please!

I use three stone lamp sets with sliced bracket fungus wicks with solid pine resin.

So, how would those things work if you drilled a lot of small holes into the fungus and filled them with the pine sap, maybe even put in some small fungus wicks. Wouldn't that allow the torch to keep burning for a long time without having to add to them?

Good video

Pretty cool trick. Who knew? Besides Jack that is.

good you to have light at night----cool

thank you

thank you. i try to demonstrate bthe best possible methods and materials to promote comfort and survival

Question for you, jack: would it help if you crush the pine lumps you find, boil it down, and drain off the good stuff, leaving the crap left behind to start your fires, or torches?

pine sap chewing gum is really good you can add cinnimin too or mint if you like, my friends even add coffee or tea flavoring.

im pretty sure if you take a paint can and poke some holes in the bottom of it *in the center* with a nail. and put it on top of a can. like an empty can of beans, then fill up the paint gain with bark from the tree. even a dead tree. then build a fire around it and let it steep for a few hours. it creates a very flammable oil but make sure the paint can is sealed. just something to do when you have a camp fire going at night. there are vid's up on how to do it :D

some states have laws against commercial gathering ask any local forestry department for local rules