Check out the pitch on this tree

[Maidenfan]

Was out messing around with the compass and ran into this tree - waterfalls of pitch. I cut out a small chunk (about the size of a walnut) of pure pitch and tried to spark it - two or three showers of sparks made it burn like a candle. Add a small piece of tin foil to catch the melted oils and I'm sure this would've burned for several mins.

 

[pict]

I could smell that from here.

 

[mqqn]

Hi Maidenfan -

That is the worst dripping I have seen - was there a large wound on the tree above that was causing that?

Interesting picture - never seen anything like that before.

best regards -

mqqn

 

[pitdog]

Pitch is awesome stuff, I found a ball about 1" Dia will burn for about 5 minutes !

 

[Maidenfan]

Hi Maidenfan -

That is the worst dripping I have seen - was there a large wound on the tree above that was causing that?

Interesting picture - never seen anything like that before.

best regards -

mqqn

Hmmm, not too sure man. Its next to a nav course waypoint we use quite a bit so I'll check it out. Only one side was waterfalling like that. The other side had big, slug like lesions dripping in sections (like in the photo)

 

[Bushman5]

great stuff! looks like the tree had an injury and was defending itself by spurting out pitch

biggest i found was from a douglas fir that had another tree fall onto it and shatter part of the truck. The ground was over 2 feet deep in pitch runnoff.