When SHTF life can be unpredictable. Even if one day you have your bug out bag and are near civilization, the next day could bring something completely unpredictable, separating you from your cabin, bug out bag, and family.
If you are out in the woods without a bug out bag or supplies, don't panic. It just so happens that your natural surroundings are what's going to keep you alive. Specificially, a tree is going to keep you alive.
Did you know that a pine tree provides all the natural resources you need to survive SHTF for an extended period of time? Yes, you read that correctly. If you're out in the woods during a collapse without many resources, find a pine tree.
With its sticky sap, pine needles, edible bark and more, almost every part of a pine tree can be used for survival. If you locate pine trees when you're bugging out, you have a better chance coming out in one piece.
So if you're not sure how to identify a pine tree now, learn where to find one in your area and how to use it to your advantage when SHTF.
Keep reading to find out just how resourceful a pine tree is. Stay alive not only by retrieving food from a pine tree, but by creating shelter as well. You'll be amazed at everything a pine tree can provide!
After the break, discover why a pine tree is one of the most resourceful trees out there. Instead of suffering when all hell to breaks lose, you can take comfort in the fact that a pine tree can keep you alive.
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Are you kidding pines are one of the most prevalent trees in the us.
This is for all the whine bags crying about hurting the trees . I cut this one down n fed it through a chipper !!! Didn’t use a single piece of it for any thing !!!
Well it is small in relation to the other problems most of us face.
A disrespect for nature is a disrespect for life and therefore God. The ecosystem matters along with every single tree.
Here on Arizona we used to have larger pine forests. But many of our pine forests were stupidly destroyed. Cut down to build homes which rotted away in a relatively short period of time. All those buildings that were constructed out of wood are gone along with the forest forever. Human stupidity is a disgraceful or shameful thing, as is the egotistical view that the life of our trees and forests don’t matter.
Try to become a more mature and intelligent person that can have a greater respect for life and the planet we live on, otherwise we will all perish in our species own stupidity as the resources of the earth disappear because of the greedy idiocy of humanity over the process of time.
The genius native Americans were dying from scurvy’s and they were surrounded by the cure, I guess they just sacrificed themselves for a damn renewable resource hey ya stupid fucking tree huggers – go die in a natural forest fire caused by lightning please so u all shut the$#%&!@*up!!!
Along with the forest forever! Lmao. How will we ever grow another forest again? Idk?
Charles Hawkins would change his mind real quick in a survival situation. That or he’d live next to one tree until he used it ALL LMAO
Charles your talking out of your$#%&!@*I am a tree care professional. Stop the whiney cry baby bull$#%&!@*because simply put you have no idea what your talking about. I’ve seen a thousand guys just like you hugging the trees . “Each one matters” cut one down two will grow in its place if allowed to do so . I’m unsure of what your eating ad your do concerned for plant life .
Your just a negative person n obviously you hate humanity most likely because at some point some one picked on you or you didn’t have any friends . Get over it n move on w your life
I see your a comic fan . It’s ok to print cartoons on your precious trees? You realize your comics are made of paper correct
N you do realize Arizona is a fucking desert right . I wonder why there may not be many pine trees there let me really think hard about that
The simple way to put this Charles Benjamin Hawkins is if it’s between me living or the tree. Trust me, that tree is going to die. I love nature as much as the next guy. Now stop being such a tree hugging pansy and shut the$#%&!@*up.
Ryan your an an insulting jerk with a low intelligence. Tree care professional, lol, as if, if you were you’d have more respect. Comics are digital now. But hey why don’t you grasp at straws and try to blame me for the paper making practices of other people. Yes Arizona is a desert. But it is also a densely populated conifer forest. a forest which use to be much larger and covered a greater portion of the earth. That level of deforestation contributes to global warming and forest fires.
I’ve been working with trees for twenty years, chopping a notch into the side of one, is a stupid$#%&!@*hole thing to do.
For all your tough talk. All I see here are complete morons trying to self justify their idiotic behaviors. You not tough and calling me a pansy is laughable coming from immature people that choose to stoop to insults because their not intelligent or mature enough to form reasonable respectful sentences like am actual adult.
You go right ahead and eat a pine tree idiot. When you get sick and die to from eating something that won’t actually sustain you in a survival situation, remember there was at least someone trying to give logical advice.
Eating a notch out of a pine tree is stupid. You’ll get sick and might even die. Who ever posted this online is just trying to hurt people.
Charles go plant a tree and get over yourself
Bobby Brown Coy Blackwood
Be careful hemlock looks like flat pine. Poison yourself like Socrates.
Never take instruction from anyone who would use a knife in such a manner. He will need page 4 from professionals. This person is an IDIOT.
Chris Norris
Im surrounded by nothing but pines. They are dominating and invasive. And the ambient temp of a pine forest is 10 degrees greater than other trees. Avoid pine forests in the summertime
Lol savage
Who cares about a fuckin tree, especially if your lost, hungry, and cold
I respect ur love of trees Charles Benjamin Hawkins but in a survival situation, would u expect someone to lay down n die instead of utilizing their surroundings to live? I respect wildlife as well but if I’m starving n trying to survive wildlife becomes more delicious than pretty.
Andy Klumpp
Valorie Ann Urban ’cause, you know… it ain’t true unless you read about it:)
Maine is like 70 something Percent forested with pine…..
Good info
That butt cut coulda made me a cool$#%&!@*table top.
Ask around st your local tree services. Alot of them don’t use the wood they take down for any thing n they would probably give it away
Barbe Brown
I like my trees ground into sawdust, put into a bowl with milk,sugar and raisins.
Its the giving tree
Charles, I’m sorry to say, but you have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about.
Eating the inner layers of pine bark will neither make you sick, nor kill a healthy tree. Likewise, eating pine nuts(given they are roasted) will not make you sick, much less expire.
Pine nuts are a staple in many types of cooking, and tea from pine needles is an Appalachian favorite. Pine trees have been a renewable resource for well over 100 years. The making of turpentine, and tapping if live trees is much more invasive than small slivers taken from healthy trees.
Simply put, you are talking out if your$#%&!@*
Lol…..but I hope you are at least selling any Burls, spalted, or Birdseye trees ya come across.
No I speak from horticultural experience and a greater wealth of wisdom. However I can understand if you’re not intelligent or mature enough to comprehend the preservation of nature or a human life. This world is apparently filled with people that eat stupid things or do stupid things thinking it benefits them.
Eating a pine trees will not sustain your health. Cutting into the pine trees cambium layer will kill the tree through infections or the loss of transference of sap to the top of the tree.
Yeah okay, point me to any peer reviewed research that proves your argument.
They have used pine nuts in cooking for a millenia in the middle east. Turpintine has been around since the 1600’s, and is still used today. It is widely used in the U.S. in the form of Vicks vapor rub.
So yes, you are still talking out of your$#%&!@*sir.
You are factually incorrect. I am typing with my fingers and your stupid suggestions that I am talking out of my$#%&!@*only serves to make you look like an insulting immature jerk or idiot.
Pier review research? Try reading any horiculture book you ignorant unread jerk.
Pine nuts are eatible if yes. But pine nuts aline will not sustain your health.
Cutting a wedge out of a tree compromises the health of the tree.
Turpentine is not healthy to drink. What freaking planet are you from, because I don’t think it is earth or anywhere comparitive to reality or the real world.
Telling people to eat pine trees is totally irresponsible and stupid.
Not mine to sell bud I’m just an employee. I’ve tried explain to my boss that the wood we take down has value but he has no desire to get into that. Tree service is just one of many things we do n he has a large company it’s not worth his time
The good part is I get to take home whst ever I want
Pine trees also produce the amanita mushroom! The super Mario mushroom, the Santa clause mushroom, most importantly the god mushroom and the fruit of the tree!
You need to drink some turpentine…. This post is about survival, not everyone going out n chopping chunks out of a pine tree just to see if it works. And if it killed ppl, I’d be dead. As a proud Appalachian who studies survival techniques along with owning a sawmill, and forested land which I timber, not clear cut. I know for a fact you’re an idiot who is talking out of your$#%&!@*
I was not suggesting drinking turpentine you window licker. I mentioned it as support to the practice of continually scarring a pine tree. I even gave supporting statements backing up the reference of turpentine. Only a paste eater would think I suggested drinking it.
Also, I never eluded to eating ONLY pine bark or pine nuts. Again, you have no idea what you are talking about. You proclaim that I am wrong, yet offer no substantiated proof as to why. I have given multiple examples as proof to my statements, you have given only ad hom and conjecture.
Do you have a reading comprehension problem. I said citing into the tree is bad for its health. What are you some type of tree eating and killing caveman.
Cutting a wedge out of a pine tree damages the tree and opens it up to infections. The human body need more then what a pine tree can provide to sustain itself. You can also get very sick from eating a pine tree.
This post jeopardizes the safety of both the forest and anyone not skilled enough or knowledgeable enough to properly harvest from a pine tree without hurting the tree or getting their self sick. It is a totally irresponsible post.
If you need to eat a pine tree in order to survive you are not much of a survivalist.
Either you have no hunting or trapping skills or you some type of crazy person huddled next to a pine tree thinking it’s going to sustain your life.
Wedging the pine tree is totally irresponsible and damages the tree. Pine nuts are often difficult to harvest.
This post is bad information and counteracts more relevant survival expertise while jeopardizing the health of the survivalist and the trees.
Please save us from the stupidity of backwards people amd their tree killing ways.
It’s almost as though some humans failed to evolve in their intelligence and are going backwards trying to become tree rating cavemen.
People are not neanderthal anymore. It’s alright to eat real food and spare the trees life and maybe your own.
Every time you hurt a tree, you make this white Indian cry.
Please don’t make Iron Cloud Cody cry.