4 Eye-Opening Ways a Pine Tree Can Save Your Life

cutting into a pine tree

Wow — use a pine tree's resin (which is highly flammable) to start a fire and stay warm! If the temperatures are cold, you'll be thanking your lucky stars that you were able to find a pine tree.

Plus, having light when you need to utilize further a pine tree to make food and medical supplies is a bonus.

2) Fire and Light

pine resin

Pine resin is highly flammable (sap is not the same as resin) and it can be used to start fires in damp or wet conditions. Collect the resin from breaks in the bark or from broken branches.

Resin can be used as candle wax would be used to create temporary lighting. Fill any depression with the resin as long as the container/receptacle can withstand the heat, and add a wick.

By now you're probably already impressed that a pine tree can provide you with food and warmth (I know I am), so you'll be pleased to discover it can also assist you with shelter.

It's pretty impressive how a pine tree can provide you with the shelter you need — when you need it the most! After the break find out how to use it to create an insulated shelter that'll help you survive! 

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  1. Garrett Herrmann said:

    You should know everything in your power to keep food water and shelter plentiful and great. What if collapse is due to a pandemic that effects animals as well as humans. And you no longer know how safe that animal would be to eat. What happens when you run low on ammo and your bow skills aren’t up to par. What happens when your hunt goes south. You are injured and need to scrap by on bark and leaves until you heal up enough to hunt.$#%&!@*happens when$#%&!@*hits the fan.

  2. Garrett Herrmann said:

    As pro life as I am. If$#%&!@*hits the fan, and your failing to keep required nutrients and this is your last resort, You shouldn’t weed it out. But if your far into pregnancy then you could also cause more harm. Tough call. Which is also why I believe women need to be even more prepared in knowledge of botany.

  3. andrew said:

    Also the sap can be used to seal small wounds

  4. Matthew David Hummel said:

    James McNeely. It’s a really good article, some stuff I didn’t know about these things. Hell, my backyard can keep me fed through college! Lol

  5. Luke Webb said:

    I had a pine tree perform open heart surgery on me once. SAVED MY LIFE!

  6. Kesley Moore said:

    Yrah..ask yule gibbons. Oh yeah..I forgot. He choked to death on a pine cone. RIP Yule.

  7. Michael White said:

    Well the picture of the “pine” cone is actually a Douglas Fir cone and those needles in the picture with the Fir cone are the needles of a Douglas Fir too… maybe they are calling any Conifer a pine but that is absolutely not the case.

  8. Finis Watson said:

    As an owner of many pine trees, beware that they produce the thickest yellow clouds of pollen I’ve ever seen.

  9. Michael Wayne Powell said:

    Evan Degrow Aaryn Folden Grayson Williams, this is some primitive$#%&!@*right here! Pine trees are awesome!!

  10. Lloyd Dwayne Winters said:

    If I have a knife a pot to cook all this$#%&!@*in I’m probably gonna have a compass and a map cause they are lighter and fallow the yellow brick road the hell out when shtf

  11. Mark Dillon said:

    It’s the red clouds that really really suck. Allergic no problem, like crawling through an attic filled with fiberglass insulation once yet caught in a cloud . Allergic your F’d. So far my two haven’t been bad compared to others I have seen, but swore first time they go red chain saw is coming out. Rest of pines we have don’t seem to be nasty pollinators for two years we have owned place. Knock on wood. I think I’d cry if they were other two as many pines has we have. I never realized what a menace pines could be until moving to higher elevation where that’s the prevalent trees.

  12. Don Sowers said:

    Jason, Wayne and i have had this very same conversation a few times, O.t.

  13. Mike Wilson said:

    And try the needle tea from the (pine tree looking) Hemlock tree. No worries about what to eat next…

  14. Dale said:

    Pine resin is good to close small wounds also

  15. Scott said:

    Photo for “food” not a pine. (Spruce, with some similar uses). Photo for “shelter” also not a pine (appears to be Douglas fir).

  16. Billy said:

    Chew the inside white bark for heartburn. It works!

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