I've spent the whole day out with a spade and flip flop winch tearing out pine stumps so I can extract the resin, hopefully get a few litres out of it all but this was a massive amount of work and im looking for a less time consuming method of getting resin by the litre.
I have a friend who has 12 pines he's wanting felled to make space. If I felled them I want to completely debark the trees to make berry baskets and various other types of container, I want the needles for coiled baskets, and the roots for lacing and various types of basket, hats, water bottles etc
If I debark the trees while there still standing, the wood will then become saturated with resin hopefully, but if i left it standing id likely lose the needles to the wind, also if i remove all the roots it'll kill it outright and I'll get no resin at all.
I'm not too clued up on the manner in which the tree becomes resin saturated, do the roots need to be intact for this to happen?
I'm thinking the best method will be to barber chair them, so i can debark them easier and get the needles, leave it for a month then come back and remove the remains of the stump for processing the resin but the roots will have likely have deteriorated.
Any advice on how to go about this?
I have a friend who has 12 pines he's wanting felled to make space. If I felled them I want to completely debark the trees to make berry baskets and various other types of container, I want the needles for coiled baskets, and the roots for lacing and various types of basket, hats, water bottles etc
If I debark the trees while there still standing, the wood will then become saturated with resin hopefully, but if i left it standing id likely lose the needles to the wind, also if i remove all the roots it'll kill it outright and I'll get no resin at all.
I'm not too clued up on the manner in which the tree becomes resin saturated, do the roots need to be intact for this to happen?
I'm thinking the best method will be to barber chair them, so i can debark them easier and get the needles, leave it for a month then come back and remove the remains of the stump for processing the resin but the roots will have likely have deteriorated.
Any advice on how to go about this?