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1. 
   DougU | Sep 22, 2005 06:16am | #1

   What'd you get it for!

   Thinking of taking up baseball?

   I think you spread it on poison ivy!

   
   

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   Edited 9/21/2005 11:17 pm ET by DougU

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   rez | Sep 22, 2005 02:53pm | #9

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   r u a feckless dastard? 

    

   
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   andybuildz | Sep 22, 2005 06:16am | #2

   See if you have any feathers

   The secret of Zen in two words is, "Not always so"!

   When we meet, we say, Namaste'..it means..

     I honor the place in you where the entire universe resides,

   I honor the place in you of love, of light, of truth, of peace.

   I honor the place within you where if you are in that place in you

   and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us.

    

    

   
    

    

3. 
   calvin | Sep 22, 2005 06:16am | #3

   George Brett used it to decorate his bat.

   Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.

   Quittin' Time

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   bosn | Sep 22, 2005 06:17am | #4

   Boats.  Check on http://www.woodenboat.com .  Or, baseball bats. 

    

   I do remember a recipe for a wood finish that used pine tar.  It was in WoodenBoat Mag.

   If you haven't drawn blood today, you haven't done anything.

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   rez | Sep 22, 2005 06:53am | #5

   Guys, I'm serious. Gettin' tired of climbing over it.

   Raw linseed oil I could find a use for.

   This stuff, I don't know.

    

   r u a feckless dastard? 

    

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   Dinosaur | Sep 22, 2005 07:02am | #6

   Rez, bro...that stuff is GOLD. Very hard to find these days.

   What's the brand/mfgr? If it's SWIX, it's worth about a C-note or maybe more. You did say a gallon....

   Dinosaur

   A day may come when the courage of men fails,when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship...

   But it is not this day.

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   rez | Sep 22, 2005 02:59pm | #10

   Old can without a name. Bout half full I'd guess. Have no idea how old it is. Probably got it at some auction away's back.

   In a 'clean this shid up' mode and this has been kickin' around too long to deal with, but if it can be an ingredient in a finish then it'll be worth keeping. Ya never know, ya know?

   be finished 

   Thanks all.

   r u a feckless dastard? 

    

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   bosn | Sep 22, 2005 03:33pm | #11

   I was serious about the boats.  There are a lot of people building traditional small boats and using a finish that includes pine tar.  The old working boats were finished this way.  Old timers wax eloquent about the beauty of those old boats, but I've never seen one myself.  Not many in Nebraska.If you haven't drawn blood today, you haven't done anything.

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   Dinosaur | Sep 22, 2005 06:56pm | #13

   Okay. Here are potential uses for it:

   Belt dressing--like for those big-azz drive belts we saw at the sawmill at Calvin's

   XC ski preparation for traditional wooden XC touring skis. You tune the ski (ie: sand it), then impregnate the wood with the pine tar, applied hot with a torch (don't set it on fire!!!), let it soak in. Refrigerate the ski. Repeat thrice. Polish. Then you're ready to wax. I'll research what kind of wax you'd need for the temps you usually get near your place, LOL....

   Slush. No, not the kind you drink, the kind you paint onto wormed, parcelled, and served rigging on a traditionally-rigged sailing vessel. It's a mix of that pine-tar and some turps. Each rigger had his own formula. This is the stuff that helped preserve the iron support cables of the Brooklyn Bridge in NYC for over a hundred years so well that when the City got nervous and ordered a section stripped for inspection, they were sorry they'd ever messed with it, as the wire was perfect and they had to jump through hoops afterwards to find someone to close it back up again the way it was.

   Gimme a while and I'll think of some more....

   Dinosaur

   A day may come when the courage of men fails,when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship...

   But it is not this day.

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   BillBrennen | Sep 22, 2005 07:58pm | #14

   Dinosaur,Very cool about the bridge cables. Thank you for that.Bill

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   Ryan1 | Sep 22, 2005 09:14pm | #15

   ditto on the bridge cable info.   most interesting thing I've heard all day.....in vino veritas

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   calvin | Sep 22, 2005 01:58pm | #7

   You think we're joking?Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.

   Quittin' Time

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   maddog3 | Sep 22, 2005 02:22pm | #8

   I was told the stuff was an old remedy for psoriasis, I have some in a soap ,
   our Pharmacist told us that the stuff is... "too toxic for modern society", but it did work! .....now I can only get it at ####natural health store"

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   BowBear | Sep 22, 2005 06:52pm | #12

   We use to use it as a wax base on wooden cross country skiis, when we had wooden xcountry skiis before plastic.

   An ex-boat builder treading water!
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   Piffin | Sep 22, 2005 11:56pm | #16

   Thinned down with turpentine, it is used to treat hemp rope fopr use around the water, such as on old sailing vessels

   It has seen some use in folk remedies - internal and external - not that I have personal experience wtih.

   mixed with linseed and turpentine, it was used to treat the inside of wooden gutters.

   I can imagine using it similarly for treating the base of posts for decks.

   Wanna sell it?

    

    

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   bosn | Sep 23, 2005 01:47am | #17

   http://www.jamestowndistributors.com

   They sell pine tar. Just over $26 a gal.  In case you were wondering.

   If you haven't drawn blood today, you haven't done anything.

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   rez | Sep 23, 2005 04:35am | #18

   Thanks. Guess I'll hang onto it.

    

   Piff, don't look like it'd be worth the postage. :o)

   If you lived across the street I'd give it to ya.

   be a homeboy

   r u a feckless dastard?