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Title: How Woodsy are you?
Post by: Lashbow on July 25, 2009, 03:25:00 PM
No not arrows, but in the woods like.
I was doing some hiking a bit ago in a potential new hunting area and the guy I was with showed me pine gum. I thought "What is he talking about" He picked of couple pieces of hard amber like balls of pine sap, popped them into his mouth, spit a bunch at first and then had a as homemade as you can get piece of gum in his mouth.
I tried if and after about gagging on the cruncy stuff, after that was done I had a piece of gum, with a nice fresh brushed pine taste in my mouth. I thought what a great idea for hunting. This might be old news to many of you seasoned trad archeres. What other woodsy ideas do you do or have
Happy chewing!!!
Title: Re: How Woodsy are you?
Post by: mcgroundstalker on July 25, 2009, 03:40:00 PM
Some fellas in upstate NY spread purple bunny dropings on toast. They say it tastes like rasberry jam.   :rolleyes:   Well... that's what they say.

... mike ...   :p   ...
Title: Re: How Woodsy are you?
Post by: Apex Predator on July 25, 2009, 03:41:00 PM
Sounds like he was yanking your chain to me.  I live in the heart of pine country, and we make them into stuff like turpentine, and other caustic products.
Title: Re: How Woodsy are you?
Post by: geno on July 25, 2009, 04:20:00 PM
I live in the heart of pine country, and we make them into stuff like turpentine, and other caustic products. [/QB][/QUOTE]


That was my first thought...
Title: Re: How Woodsy are you?
Post by: Ray Hammond on July 25, 2009, 04:24:00 PM
I've seen it added to things like cooking type oil and tallow to apply to wounds...and I've seen jewelry made of amber with insects trapped in it...but I've never seen anyone chewing on it.
Title: Re: How Woodsy are you?
Post by: beaver#1 on July 25, 2009, 04:54:00 PM
ever heard of a toothache tree ? well one of my coworkers had not either.  nock one of the spiney bumps off and cut the bark off then chew it.  it will make you face disappear lol
Title: Re: How Woodsy are you?
Post by: adkmountainken on July 25, 2009, 05:00:00 PM
wait untill the day you misstake pine pitch for spruce gum, YUCK!!!!!
Title: Re: How Woodsy are you?
Post by: Don Stokes on July 25, 2009, 05:29:00 PM
Country people around here chewed sap from the sweetgum tree when I was a kid.

Twigs from black gum were used for toothbrushes, because the grain is interlocked and won't splinter in your mouth.

Hercules Club is the name of the "toothache tree". Chew a twig and it makes your mouth numb.

We smoked cross vine, grape vine, and catalpa beans as kids. All bad.

You can chew rabbit tobacco, but it makes a better cover scent. Smells OK, anyhow.

Watch out for the guy who claims to be able to tell the sex of a deer by tasting its droppings. He will have a bag of chocolate-covered raisins in his pocket!
Title: Re: How Woodsy are you?
Post by: sleepyhollow on July 25, 2009, 05:44:00 PM
prickly ash is also great for toothaches
Title: Re: How Woodsy are you?
Post by: Ron LaClair on July 25, 2009, 08:23:00 PM
When I was a kid, in the hot summer the blacktop along the edge of the road was soft enough to chew.... it wasn't half bad. Black Jack gun was a nickel a pack but nickels were scarce in those days.   :rolleyes:  Also we smoked corn silk in corn cob pipes. The "makins", Bull Durham, was a nickel a bag too.     :D
Title: Re: How Woodsy are you?
Post by: Old York on July 25, 2009, 08:40:00 PM
I gave my sister some "Wild Potato", it's the tuber
from a Jack-in-the-Pulpit. Tastes great at first,
then your mouth feels like it inhaled a porcupine.
Pins & fire so to speak.

She ran me down after chasing me three blocks and
beat the tar outta me. Some people just don't
appreciate good natural organic foods.
Title: Re: How Woodsy are you?
Post by: pine nut on July 25, 2009, 08:41:00 PM
I smoked rabbit tobacco, grape vine ( burns and stings yo mouth), oak leaves and pine needles, actually about anything that would burn.  I'm not recommending anyone try it either!  I have chewed the gum also.  Have also used the blackgum twig for a toothbrush...beats no toothbrush at all.
Title: Re: How Woodsy are you?
Post by: trapperDave on July 25, 2009, 09:25:00 PM
willow bark for a headache, natures aspirin
Title: Re: How Woodsy are you?
Post by: iacornfed on July 25, 2009, 09:39:00 PM
Ron, I remember a few other things costing a Nickle or Dime a bag that people smoke! Organic also.   :campfire:  On a serious note Ive chewed sap before and a few different weeds as I walked along the trail.
Title: Re: How Woodsy are you?
Post by: J-dog on July 25, 2009, 09:48:00 PM
Used to use a bark to stun fish when I was a kid?? My Dad showed me the tree but cant remember what they called it? It worked good.

Chewing pine sap? lotta pine around here and a doubt I will be chewin on any of em! but do what suits ya.

J
Title: Re: How Woodsy are you?
Post by: STOBBER on July 25, 2009, 09:58:00 PM
:readit:  Chewed up Plantain heals wounds and stops the pain of a bee sting.
Jewelweed juice soothes and dries poison ivy/oak.
Willow bark for the headache.
Inner bark of Slippery elm soothes a upset stomach.
If your in wet swampland and need water you can slice a good sized grape vine in two and get some good clean water from it, takes a while but it aint bad.
And yes ...you can make tea from pine needles, it's not bad and loaded with vitamin C.
Dandelion roots make a great coffe after you roast them a
and the young greens are great....hafta boil the older ones in a couple of changes of water.
Staghorn and Winged sumac makes great lemonade and the seeds crushed and sprinkled over a fresh brook trout is out standing.
Yarrow will stop bleeding very quickly when smashed up and applied to a wound.
I have seen and tried all of these ....i can vouch for them.
Never tried the "gum" though !  :eek:   YUCK !


Point being ...  :notworthy:  Our creator has provided us with all we need if we could just slow down long enough to learn .
Title: Re: How Woodsy are you?
Post by: Ron LaClair on July 26, 2009, 01:00:00 AM
Cover a bee sting with a small mud pack. As it drys it draws out the poison. My granddad taught me that over 65 years ago.
Title: Re: How Woodsy are you?
Post by: Rick P on July 26, 2009, 01:25:00 AM
Almost every medicine currently on the market is derived from plant or animal sources.
Digitalis= foxglove
Aspirin= Willow bark
Coumadin= sea snake venom
Valium= Valerian root

The list goes on and on. That's why the big pharmaceutical companies spend so much money and time working with native healers, and researching deep sea critters.
Title: Re: How Woodsy are you?
Post by: Ray Hammond on July 26, 2009, 08:48:00 AM
sweet gum got its name for that very reason...but pine sap??? Not me.
Title: Re: How Woodsy are you?
Post by: Landshark160 on July 26, 2009, 11:11:00 AM
Marty, I remember doing that as a kid.  You have to get a chunk that has dried up hard and isn't the least bit sticky.  As you chew it, it softens up and is, indeed, like a piece of gum.
Title: Re: How Woodsy are you?
Post by: maineac on July 26, 2009, 11:20:00 AM
Haven't tried the pine version, but up here spruce gun was what was chewed depression era and before.  I have tried it as a cover mask for my breath, hard to take for very long.  I often chew clover to absorb breath odor while hunting.
Title: Re: How Woodsy are you?
Post by: Billy on July 26, 2009, 12:53:00 PM
Okay,I'll ask...anybody ever read the Kevin Trudeau books? He supposedly has written about a bunch of natural cures and remedies.
Are his books any good? Are there other authors who may have written alot of these curative recipes down?

A dallop of oatmeal will draw the swelling and poison out of a wasp sting..don't ask how i NOSE that one!!   :eek:    :D
Title: Re: How Woodsy are you?
Post by: shortstroke 91 on July 26, 2009, 01:56:00 PM
My Grndpa would take a piece of chew out of his mouth and put it on a bee or wasp sting after removing the stinger and the burn goes away immediately, don't know why but it works fast. woks with any tobacco I guess, I got a cigarette wet and used it with the same results.
Title: Re: How Woodsy are you?
Post by: George D. Stout on July 26, 2009, 10:03:00 PM
Keven tells you nothing in his book, he wants you to spend money and join his website, etc., so he can tell you his secrets.   I think his ancestors sold snake oil of the back of a covered wagon.  

I grew up in the woods, and I would just as soon carry my chewing gum, snacks, firestarter, aspirin, etc. with me.    You will eventually get something wrong 8^).

Patrick F. McManus, describing old Rancid Crabtree, said Rancid was showing him edible plants, etc.   Rancid grabbed a hand full of greens and said, "Ever eat miner's lettuce boy?"
He stuffed it in his mouth and started chewing....then started gagging and spit it out. Then said, "Well that aint it boy....don't ever eat anything that looks like that!"  
Rancid was quite a woodsman.
Title: Re: How Woodsy are you?
Post by: Mo. Huntin on July 26, 2009, 10:11:00 PM
That is funny.
Title: Re: How Woodsy are you?
Post by: Billy on July 26, 2009, 10:25:00 PM
Thanks, George!
I was offered a chance to have two of his books sent to me "FREE";glad I passed on their ..give us your credit card number for S&H..Free offer!

..moisten a finger and rub a bar of soap then rub that onto chigger and skeeter bites; stops the itch fairly quick.
Title: Re: How Woodsy are you?
Post by: Toklat1 on July 26, 2009, 10:39:00 PM
If ya want to stop the itch of mesquito or chigger bites, Take some vicks vape o rub and rub it on the bite. The itch will be gone almost immediately! I learned this while stationed in the Philippines years ago. I nrver leave home without it!
Title: Re: How Woodsy are you?
Post by: Mo. Huntin on July 26, 2009, 10:42:00 PM
I find that beer helps with a lot of things.  he he.
Title: Re: How Woodsy are you?
Post by: 57HOP on July 26, 2009, 10:42:00 PM
Black Spruce is preferred - Find a wounded tree or tap one and let the sap harden till, well, hard (you can melt it down and strain it to remove impurities, if you want). Pop some in you mouth ,crunch it up and and keep chewing; it'll soften up in a minute.

Or use it to waterproof the seams on your bark canoes and baskets
Title: Re: How Woodsy are you?
Post by: J-dog on July 26, 2009, 10:45:00 PM
Have to try the soap and vapor rub for the chiggers - seem to stay eat up with em.

J
Title: Re: How Woodsy are you?
Post by: Bill Tell on July 27, 2009, 07:46:00 AM
Milkweed will remove warts I was told.
Title: Re: How Woodsy are you?
Post by: Broken Arrows on July 27, 2009, 10:27:00 AM
charcoal and pin sap makes great glue.
Title: Re: How Woodsy are you?
Post by: Onehair on July 27, 2009, 04:10:00 PM
Chewed tar and smoked grape vines as a kid.
Title: Re: How Woodsy are you?
Post by: Hardhed on July 27, 2009, 04:50:00 PM
Did I read here about eating blacktop?
Title: Re: How Woodsy are you?
Post by: Lashbow on July 28, 2009, 12:27:00 AM
Now I don't know about those southern yellow pines, And I am not sure what I had, be it spruce, fir, or Larch. could have been an overgrown Douglas Fir??
Hard as a rock and chew, spit, chew. Really not too bad, not candy but not too bad. Come on, some of you need to try it!!!
Title: Re: How Woodsy are you?
Post by: Talondale on July 28, 2009, 10:25:00 AM
Sweet Birch has a Wintergreen flavor.  Used to chew small twigs while hiking the AT.  Sassafras root makes a good tea too, or just chew the root.  I've had the sumac lemonade, very tart. Wet tobacco on a bee sting does work.
Title: Re: How Woodsy are you?
Post by: beaver#1 on July 28, 2009, 01:32:00 PM
i have tried the pine needle tea.  it surprised me very tasty.  but make sure they are green needles
Title: Re: How Woodsy are you?
Post by: toddster on July 28, 2009, 02:12:00 PM
put a penny on a bite and the copper will draw out the poison.  If you have a cut and no bandage,some sap from a pine tree will help it heal.  Chewed pine needles several times hunting in them,great cover scent.  Some charcoal from a campfire will help dystentary when you are away for a while.