Christmas trees

Coldwood

Coldwood

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I picked up our Christmas tree today...don't know the type, but not a white pine or scotch pine...but I noticed at the top of the tree there were white globules of pine pitch. Because of a potential fire hazard, I pulled them off then wiped them off into a tissue paper, which I then balled up and added to my fire-starting kit.

My question is, when the season to be jolly is over and we start trashing our trees, is there anything that we could salvage...pine pitch is obvious, but how about needles and bark scrapings for tinder?
 
When we take our tree down I use a hand loper and cut off short pieces of branches and toss them into the fireplace. When nothing is left but the trunk that gets cut up and throw on the wood pile to burn next year. We usually save some pitch and let it dry out for use during the year. We a buy Douglass fir tree.
 
Thanks 2dogs...ours go onto the spring brush pile, they burn like an SOB...that's why I was wondering if we should take bark scrapings for fire tinder.
 
When I was a kid, we'd plant the tree in the front of the house and they'd successfully root and grow. (We'd do this right after Christmas - not wait weeks until the tree dried out completely.) It was a nice variety to see a few evergreen trees among the deciduous ones.
 
akennedy73, you mean you can actually PLANT those trees again? That is something I had never thought about doing. It's a great idea.
 
Um...it only works if you get a living tree with a rootball. Cut trunks don't root. We planted our last one the year my mother's son went off to S.E. Asia. It is thirty feet tall now. A testiment to the time that has flown by since. Where once the picture showed decorations and a gold star on top, a few dozen presents tucked under low branches, now the remaining family can gather, and indeed I can park my truck in it's shade.

Codger
 
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