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Genuine Swedish Pine Tar

About Pine Tar | Material Specifications

This is "The Real Stuff" 100% Organic: Pine Tar is known since ancient history for its capacity as a water repellent vapor barrier on wood and rope and for its gentle antiseptic effect. Pine Tar is used for wood preservation utility and fence poles, cottages, splint roofs, boats et cetera. Pine Tar is an excellent wood preservative and substitute for pressure treated wood. Works well for preserving wood used underground. Pure natural wood preservative. Made in Sweden. 5 Liter (1.33 Gallon) cans available. Note: do not apply on skin.

Pine Tar- 5 Liter: #N850B Price: $59.75

An Ancient Pine Tar Recipe: Thinning with gum turpentine is recommended to obtain fast penetration and avoid stickiness.

1. Equal parts of Genuine Pine Tar, turpentine and cleaned boiled linseed oil.
2. Heat to 80 degrees F and mix thoroughly.
3. Apply warm if possible.

Purified, Boiled Linseed Oil: Boiled 100% cleaned and sterilized linseed oil from Allback, Sweden.
1.05 Qt / 1 Liter: #50093 Price: $16.95
1.33 Gallon / 5 Liter: #50345 Price: $76.24

Material Specifications for Pine Tar

Pine Tar is characterized as a pine tar of high quality and contains all ingredients of rosin and fatty acids and their conversion products such as rosin oil, oxidized esters, high-boiling terpenes and fatty alcohols, et cetera.

Density at 20° Celsius: 1,030 kg per cubic meter
Viscosity at 20° Celsius: 650 cP
Water: 0.5 %
Volatile acids/(acetic acid): 0.2%
Acid number: 50
Flash point: 248 F
Color: dark brown

More About Genuine Swedish Pine Tar

Pine tar is a vegetable liquid obtained from the wood of various trees of the family Pinaceac by distillation. Using a process that is centurys old, pine stumps and roots are burned very slowly in special kilns. This pine tar is a resin rich liquid that is extracted from the bottom of the kiln. This is authentic Stockholm tar. Genuine Pine Tar has been valued for hundreds of years as a preservative for wood and natural fiber rope. It is the smell of the square-rigged ship. Traditional sailors describe this rare grade of tar in words usually reserved for fine wines and tobaccos.

The product is still used to a great extent for wooden constructions such as shingles, bridges, boats, barges and cottages. The Swedish Cultural Management recommends pine tar as surface treatment of wooden church roofs and other cultural buildings made of wood. There are examples of stave churches that have been preserved with pine tar for nearly a thousand years with very few intervals of maintenance. It is also used for veterinary purposes, in hoof moisture retention of horses, cattle and sheep and for pharmaceutical purposes as treatment of different kinds of skin diseases. Pine tar can be found as an ingredient in shampoos, soaps, and expectorants and in ointments against allergic rash, psoriasis and eczema, among others. Another different field of application of pine tar is as a softener when manufacturing rubber tires.