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  • #31
    Re: What is a Pine Knot?

    After buying a house with a fireplace, I went to my daddy-in-law's place in Central Alabama to cut firewood and a "lighter'd stump". He found the stump of an old pine and using a crosscut saw and lubing the blade with kerosene, we cut a good sized stump, that once split, provided lots of firestarter.
    Gil Davis Tercenio

    "A man with a rifle is a citizen; a man without one is merely a subject." - the late Mark Horton, Captain of Co G, 28th Ala Inf CSA, a real hero

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    • #32
      Re: What is a Pine Knot?

      ...all that snapping, sparking, and popping, let's hope that was a very long handled skillet...
      Roasted hands and "swinged" heads.

      I was in Smithfield NC last week and saw some of the head logs from the trenches behind the Cole House at Bentonville. They are all lighter wood now. These logs just happen to have a high lead content.
      Last edited by Vuhginyuh; 08-22-2007, 05:41 PM.
      B. G. Beall (Long Gone)

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      • #33
        Re: What is a Pine Knot?

        In the blissful piney woods near Ocean Pond, FL, my drenched company was miserable on a saturday afternoon. A few stout hands discovered a massive stump, that was mostly fat lighter. When lit, it burned so hot that people were standing 25 feet away. It was still burning at 9am the next day. Gotta love it. Try not to cook over pine if you can help it, as it lends a funky aftertaste.

        Andrew Jerram
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        Andrew Jerram

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        • #34
          Re: What is a Pine Knot?

          Try not to cook over pine if you can help it, as it lends a funky aftertaste.

          And don't use more than a few slivers in a fireplace. The stuff that tastes funky also coats the flue. It can result in something akin to a blast furnace.
          B. G. Beall (Long Gone)

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          • #35
            Re: What is a Pine Knot?

            It'll also coat your face and hands with gummy residue that's the devil to remove.
            Rob Weaver
            Co I, 7th Wisconsin, the "Pine River Boys"
            "We're... Christians, what read the Bible and foller what it says about lovin' your enemies and carin' for them what despitefully use you -- that is, after you've downed 'em good and hard."
            [I]Si Klegg[/I]

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            • #36
              Re: What is a Pine Knot?

              Originally posted by Rob Weaver View Post
              It'll also coat your face and hands with gummy residue that's the devil to remove.
              Boys! There is a period experience! One account late in the Carolinas Campaign mentioned men being assumed to be USCTs they were so filthy.

              I don't know why, but these pine product posts regularly remind me of those infamous rosin baked potatoes.
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              • #37
                Re: What is a Pine Knot?

                ...funky...
                ...gummy...
                ...Carolinas...
                ...infamous...
                Hehehe...Hannah Creek.
                Last edited by Vuhginyuh; 08-23-2007, 11:43 AM.
                B. G. Beall (Long Gone)

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                • #38
                  Re: What is a Pine Knot?

                  50 days or so of bending over a pine knot fire for cooking and keeping warm in February/March would turn you a pretty dark shade I should think. Sherman's boys used up a lot of soap and elbow grease getting it off of skin and cloth.

                  Pine knots had a rather incendiary effect on winter hut chimney's as well.
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                  Doug Cooper

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                  • #39
                    Re: What is a Pine Knot?

                    Originally posted by Charles Heath View Post
                    Boys! There is a period experience! One account late in the Carolinas Campaign mentioned men being assumed to be USCTs they were so filthy.
                    If you are recalling the same account I'm remembering reading, the men were thought to be USCT troops BY USCT troops. They had recently been marching through the piney woods that the Confed's had set afire to slow their progress.
                    Bernard Biederman
                    30th OVI
                    Co. B
                    Member of Ewing's Foot Cavalry
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                    • #40
                      Re: What is a Pine Knot?

                      Spent the weekend cooking over pine fires. My hair will still stand out like it's been moussed, and everything smells like turpentine. Also was reminded that no matter how big a pine fire is, it burns down to nothing fairly quickly. Forget about a "bed of coals." If you don't feed it constantly, you get a "bed of ashes."
                      Rob Weaver
                      Co I, 7th Wisconsin, the "Pine River Boys"
                      "We're... Christians, what read the Bible and foller what it says about lovin' your enemies and carin' for them what despitefully use you -- that is, after you've downed 'em good and hard."
                      [I]Si Klegg[/I]

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                      • #41
                        Re: What is a Pine Knot?

                        I joked about this a little earlier. Don't cook with pine. There are several very good reasons not to. Don't heat a structure with it either.
                        B. G. Beall (Long Gone)

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                        • #42
                          Re: What is a Pine Knot?

                          Now pine does have one redeeming quality. It lights on the first match, and burns in the rain like a house afire.
                          Rob Weaver
                          Co I, 7th Wisconsin, the "Pine River Boys"
                          "We're... Christians, what read the Bible and foller what it says about lovin' your enemies and carin' for them what despitefully use you -- that is, after you've downed 'em good and hard."
                          [I]Si Klegg[/I]

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                          • #43
                            Re: What is a Pine Knot?

                            With the lack of pine trees here on the plains, we often turn to Buffalo chips for our camp fires.

                            Ron Hopkins
                            Co. D, 13th US Inf

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                            • #44
                              Re: What is a Pine Knot?

                              Ron,

                              Cow chips work just fine for boiling coffee down in Mississippi, too.
                              [B]Charles Heath[/B]
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                              • #45
                                Re: What is a Pine Knot?

                                Cow chips work just fine for boiling coffee down in Mississippi, too.
                                Speaking of cow chips, some lout gave this light hearted thread a terrible rating.
                                B. G. Beall (Long Gone)

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