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How to Make Birch Tar Preserving Bear Meat Primitive Bushcraft Skills in the Wilderness

How to Make Birch Tar Preserving Bear Meat Primitive Bushcraft Skills in the Wilderness

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Birch tar or oil is relatively easy to make and is an important bushcraft product from the forest for off grid living. Birch tar can be used as antiseptic, a disinfectant, a diuretic, a bug repellent, glue, soap and more. I collect birch bark from one fallen tree and dry distill it in a campfire in front of my log cabin. With spring fast approaching, warm weather is threatening to thaw my store of frozen bear meat. To prevent spoilage, I remove it from the ground and dry and smoke it over the campfire over two days. It will last a long time like this, but should not be consumed as jerky, but rather should be cooked and/or rehydrated and cooked in order to kill potential trichinosis
Date: 2020-11-30

Comments and reviews: 5


To some it might seem a hard life, but when all said and done, hardcwork never killed anyone and when you enjoy it it does not see m like hard d work.
Hthere Re very few jobs where you can drop what your are doing and take the canoe out and do a bit of fishing, Cali will enjoy that i bet,
I have found that this is very relaxing and a really nice way to travel, i have watched the building of a cedar strip canoe which ends up looking really lovely the only problem being they need covering in fibre glass at the e nd, something that i am noot very good at, so i have an special inflatable that remains under pressure when inflated, it has like cords of material that join the top and bottom so once pumped up it remains very solid, you can even stand on it, when finished it is just a case of deflating it, rilling it up and putting it back into a back pack bag you can carry on your back, just right for fishing, however i really would have liked a canadian style open canoe they really are go anywhere style canoes.
With mine i also have a rapidup sail which is good with the wind behind you or from the quarter, it really moves you along about twice as fast as padels and is very controlable and fits most types of canoes.
Anyway, have a safe trip and all the best to you and Cali.

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Hello Shawn;
Happy to see you and your wife are well. yes and Cali. I really enjoyed the pine tar and birch tar information. I tried this before but as you mentioned ended up burning it. Now
I know why.
I said in previous messages that I would be coming for my yearly vacation back to Canada from Korea. but it looks like I may have to cancel it this year. I keep hoping and crossing
my fingers that it will be possible. But that hope is slowly fading away.
Thank you for your videos
Take care
See you at the cabin.
Serge B. Charlebois

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I am soo jelous of your life. Doing what your doing and growing some veg is my dream. This is a constant subject in my house. I am a carpenter, i fish, spend around a quarter of my year enjoying the outdoors and grow alot of our own food in our back yard. The idea of such a simple fulfilling life is horific to my wife. How you managed to get your wife to agree to your arrangement is all i can can call it, is astonishing.
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Hey James, huge thank you for the content you are creating, absolutely relaxing and perhaps more current than ever. One question on the bear meat consumption and processing, how do you deal with trichina? I am in belief that you are supposed to heat the meat to over 70 deg C to kill the trichina bacteria, but how does it survive the smoking/drying?
Thanks again!

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They say about such people that his hands are growing from where he needs to. And 304 dislikes were set by miserable people who could not do anything with their own hands.
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