Resin extraction consists of incising the outer layers of a
pine
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tree in order to collect the sap or
resin
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.
Summary
Resin
In polymer chemistry and materials science, resin is a solid or highly viscous substance of plant or synthetic origin that is typically convertible into polymers. Resins are usually mixtures of organic compounds. This article focuses on n ...
circulates throughout a
coniferous tree and a few others, and serves to seal damage to the tree. Harvesting pine resin dates back to
Gallo-Roman times in
Gascony.
Tapping pines may either be done so as to sustain the life of the tree, or exhaustively in the years before the tree is cut down.
Traditional tapping
In Gascony, and to a lesser extent in
Provence
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, pine-tapping was practiced as a form of
sharecropping
Sharecropping is a legal arrangement with regard to agricultural land in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on that land.
Sharecropping has a long history and there are a wide range ...
, although uncertain status of the workers sometimes led to labor disputes.
Although almost abandoned during the 20th century, in
Spain
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it has experienced something of a resurgence. Cesefor
Medforest article
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Procedure
Resin is usually collected by causing minor damage to the tree by making a hole far enough into the trunk to puncture the vacuoles, to let sap exit the tree, known as tapping, and then letting the tree repair its damage by filling the wound with resin. This usually takes a few days. Then, excess resin is collected.
Gallery
File:Resin extraction near Irkutsk.jpg, Lithuanian deportees into Russia extract resin near Irkutsk.
File:Resin extraction in Cortegaça (Mortágua).jpg
File:Kombornia zywicowanie.jpg
File:Getah hars Pinus Panji DSC 0622-.JPG, Resing sap.
See also
* Maple syrup
* Rosin
Rosin (), also called colophony or Greek pitch ( la, links=no, pix graeca), is a solid form of resin obtained from pines and some other plants, mostly conifers, produced by heating fresh liquid resin to vaporize the volatile liquid terpene comp ...
* Rubber tapping
* Turpentine
Turpentine (which is also called spirit of turpentine, oil of turpentine, terebenthene, terebinthine and (colloquially) turps) is a fluid obtained by the distillation of resin harvested from living trees, mainly pines. Mainly used as a spec ...
* Naval stores industry
References
Tree tapping
Conifers
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