Tar can be found in any sort of fat wood but getting it out of the wood, enough to coat a wooden chest, can be a bit of a venture. Previously I have sometimes made tar using a large bucket or sheet metal to guide the tar to the correct place and to keep the fire out. This is my first attempt to make tar without such devices. All I have to begin with are the tools made in previous videos and the forest and fire. And in a way that is enough. Some experience would have been nice to but hey, this is how you get that.

I have no idea where I learned about this method, I worked in a museum in my teens and have always been active in boys and girls scout, I probably picked it up at one of those places. And then I have also called up some of my friends and colleagues to freshen up the memory. What is special about this method is that the resin in the wood turns into tar when the charing fatwood heats up more fatwood coaling to become char coal. That means that the tar is heated up when made but then cooled down almost immediately after pouring out of the kiln. From what I have heard that makes particularly qualitative tar; red-ish brown tar, not black.

But this is a video about the kiln, not the tar. In this attempt I did not get very much tar and the tar I got was dark in colour due to extensive fire inside of the kiln. Fire is a problem in a kiln since it makes it too hot. Fire and extensive heat also produces coal dust making the tar black, thick and less ideal for treating wood. The kiln dirt eventually fell down in its lower parts making most of the tar pour out into the dirt.

It is also a video about the tools needed to make a kiln that works, particularly digging tools and a bucket. Without a bucket or other container tar manufacturing can not be made in these quantities.

Two episodes into the future there will be proper amounts of red-ish tar made in this kiln.

The fatwood is Swedish fir root where the parts with lesser resin are rotten away and only fat wood is left. There were the roots of six or seven trees and each log was split into a proper size to allow useful forging coal as well as tar. In the mound/ditch every log is then placed in a pattern that allow liquids to pour down to the bottom as effortless as possible. The main problem in this burn was that too much air came in through the bottom hole too early in the process. That led to fire in the mound and that the heat came to the bottom of the ditch before coaling the wood above. Next time there will be less air in the mound early in the process.

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