to use the birch oil, you need to crack it. That is heat it again and distill the lighter elements from the tarry pitch. you should end up with a petroleum type liquid and a thick tarry pitch. There are many video on how to achieve this.
@@nickpierlot9319 It would be like any distilling process, wouldn't it? Burn the birch oil in a basin and the thinner stuff escapes through a thin copper pipe into another jug.
I think it would be neat to have the exact same measurement and start a burn of them both separately burning to see which one burns out first. Thanks for your video.
I'm still trying to get caught up on my video watching....LOL. That was some good info, I'm like you it looks like the 25/75 mix will work better. Too bad I don't have birch trees down here...LOL. Thanks for sharing. Take Care :-))
What is happening is the impurities of the birch oil are contaminating the wick. That's why you have to keep adjusting it every 15 minutes even when the wick is new. Eventually, you would find that the wick won't bring enough fuel to the flame to burn. The same thing happens with kerosene heaters if you use the wrong grade of fuel.
joe i havent tried birch oil but i have tried cooking oil and thinned it with the same results as you got, I decided to make a wick and used 2 thin pieces of copper wire twisted round it to hold it up and stuck the wick in a glass of cooking oil and it burns great like a candle
Just an observation from comments from this video and your birch oil video. You mentioned in the oil video that you saw the can was half buried in the dirt, and your can was barely one quarter buried. Maybe a way to refine it better would be a cooler burn. Many comments said the longer you cook the oil, the thicker it is to where it turns solid. That could be a way to better refine it and end up with a cleaner looking oil and possibly thinner oil too.
The top of the of the lamp is closed shut so not enough oxygen. So it dies down after a few mins so turning the wick just burns it quicker. A little air flow and it would burn great.
you might need to filter the birch oil to remove the impurities. there was a way to filter used motor oil so that it could be reused using a long wick going from the birch oil to an other conainer below. might work.
Have you mixed the oil with the lamp oil and let it sit over night to see if it separated? I imagine there would be some water in there. I'm going to guess about half
Hay! great idea. Water is also climbing up those birch trees. It must be a nature's solvent also....thinking that the petrol companies give us a lot of water to burn in gas it may be worth a try.
Hi, like it alot, great idea. I'm looking forward to next next addition. I run them lamps all the time myself we call them "Huricane Lamps" here in Wales. When i'm fishing or hunting in winter I put a dry stone on top of each of my lamps and them plop them in my pocket to keep my hands warm. You ever do that?
+Raven4122 You can not use the birch oil alone in a lantern it will not work. The best you can do is mix it with lamp oil to extend your supply. You can put the birch oil on a piece of fungus and it can be used as an open torch (for lack of a better word) but its quite smokey when burning. Thank you. Joe
Or as someone else commented, crack it. Personally I have my old oil furnace tank full of fuel. I’ve switched to wood and removed the furnace. I could mix fuel oil and birch oil to last me a life time of lighting my home.
@JoeandZachSurvival Thanks, hope it comes in handy. Make sure they are super dry stones so they don't blow. I'm just starting to see the ducks coming in here atm from Scandonavia. Mallard teal and wigeon :) I love duck too.
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Alchemy was really about refining stuff like this. Once you skip the 'philosophy' stuff there may be some ideas on how to purify the birch oil using primitive methods buried in there. For instance, there might be a way to ferment the birch oil and distill something thinner and more useful from it. The downside of that is you wind of with even less of what you started with. Just a thought.
i sense it would work pretty well,, would be cool to try to make only birch oil work... i dont know if its flammable. by itself, but i wouldnt be too surprised.. maybe modify the wick and oil reservoir..
I have an idea... try filtering the birch oil with cloth or something... There was fire inside at one point...Also there may be dirt that was on the bark that got pulled down with the oil. The birch oil may work better when filtered.
I've never even heard of birch oil till yesterday! Weird! Kinda weirds my mind out! Very cool and interesting, buy isn't it toxic somehow? Is it toxic on the skin or if burned in an oil lamp, is it toxic fumes? Is it actually safe? If so, why do we never hear of it? Just curious! I have also heard in the last day it has medicinal properties, so can it be ingested or not? Just curious. I don't think these trees grow here.
Hi Meg. I didn't expect to see you here! This link is an article I wrote last week about birch. I hope it answers your questions. Let us know if it does or doesn't. Thanks
Have you tried other kinds of lamps? There are lamps that used rendered animal fats and I wonder if they would work with the birch oil. I found an Iron Betty lamp from Jas. Townsend and son and it looks like a possibility. What do you think?
i think they use it for preserving wood and metal parts too.maybe its not good idea to use it as an lamp oil.better for preserving guns,tools etc. maybe for impregnating wood.etc....
akatsukiawsome13 i saw the old fashion ice cream makers the other day on Amazon and they wanted over $200 !!! The newer one were WAY less....i guess technology is cheaper that the old woodbarrel and crank nowadays!?
This is the only video I am seeing on all of the entire Internet of anyone burning birch oil. Did the government come and get you? 😂 Are you still alive?
