Catface

DanG · February 08, 2015, 08:48:50 AM

Hey Blake, I see you figgered out your password. Glad to have you back, Bro!

Ocklawahaboy · February 08, 2015, 09:08:00 AM

Quote from: Blake22 on February 08, 2015, 05:33:35 AM
Must be eating at the Red Onion?? I wish I had a piece of 10 layer cake for breakfast.

Yup. Every time I go past. Even had to drive up there from ocala to pick up a stranded trucker one time. He got to buy me a bacon cheeseburger before we headed back.

Blake22 · February 08, 2015, 10:21:20 AM

Quote from: Ocklawahaboy on February 08, 2015, 09:08:00 AM
Quote from: Blake22 on February 08, 2015, 05:33:35 AM
Must be eating at the Red Onion?? I wish I had a piece of 10 layer cake for breakfast.
Yup. Every time I go past. Even had to drive up there from ocala to pick up a stranded trucker one time. He got to buy me a bacon cheeseburger before we headed back.

Best burger in these parts.

Blake22 · February 08, 2015, 10:26:28 AM

Quote from: DanG on February 08, 2015, 08:48:50 AM
Hey Blake, I see you figgered out your password. Glad to have you back, Bro!

I was surprised it worked. I just knew y'all had purged an old deadbeat member like me. If ican figure out how to post pics from my phone you still toss me out .......I have lottsa DanG good pics of old junk.

PC-Urban-Sawyer · February 08, 2015, 01:45:11 PM

@Blake22

I see you live in Madison. I lived in Day when I was eleven and twelve, then after the school burned down we moved to the other side of the county, to the east of Mayo on US 27...

Herb

DanG · February 08, 2015, 02:44:42 PM

Blake, Jeff doesn't purge members who have posted before. You don't get purged for not being able to post pics either, just laffed at a lot. ;D

Blake22 · February 09, 2015, 12:17:02 PM

Quote from: DanG on February 08, 2015, 02:44:42 PM
Blake, Jeff doesn't purge members who have posted before. You don't get purged for not being able to post pics either, just laffed at a lot. ;D

Are you pickin on me DanG ?

DanG · February 10, 2015, 03:11:08 PM

Well yeah. :D

caveman · February 10, 2015, 10:13:56 PM

The clay pots used to collect pitch were referred to as Herty Cups. They were developed by Charles Herty.

Ocklawahaboy · February 10, 2015, 10:28:22 PM

Quote from: caveman on February 10, 2015, 10:13:56 PM
The clay pots used to collect pitch were referred to as Herty Cups. They were developed by Charles Herty.

If I'd have known that 2 years ago, I could have exclaimed to my friends on the FL trail, Hey look, it's a Herty Cup!

Seriously though, I am going to add that to my mostly useless-make myself look smart around a select few Floridians- store of knowledge.

caveman · September 28, 2021, 02:30:42 PM

I took these pics in the Museum at the home of a friend of mine, Steve Melton, who lives in Trilby, Fl. He has a lot of really cool stuff, some of which used to belong to my Great Grandfather (cane grinder and various railroad tools). The catface which is from an old longleaf pine, the tins, Herty cups and the hacks which were used to create the catfaces are pictured.

moodnacreek · September 29, 2021, 08:56:26 AM

Surprised to se so many replies under 'cat face' , that would be a knot scar that is a grading defect on a hardwood log. So there is another cat face found in the southern pine woods, very interesting.

Wudman · September 29, 2021, 09:25:26 AM

The "catface" posted by Caveman is a turpentine scar. Trees were deliberately injured to collect turpentine.

Wud

WDH · September 29, 2021, 10:48:18 AM

The cut marks to stimulate resin flow in the old longleaf pines resembled a cat's face.

Claybraker · September 29, 2021, 12:36:31 PM

The horizontal metal piece in the first post is to give a horse something to brush your leg against. Makes a nasty wound.

florida · September 30, 2021, 04:29:36 PM

I found these turpentine videos years ago and while the first 2 are rough for different reasons they are still enjoyable. I've looked for a cat face for years but I don't think they did much turpentining here in south Florida. I have found 2 hand hewn cypress ties though. Meant to go back one day and get it but it was deep in a Cypress slough and we never went back.

Spirits of the Pines - YouTube

Turpentine: End of an Era - YouTube

Episode 23: Turpentine Industry (A History of Central Florida Series) - YouTube

WDH · October 01, 2021, 09:19:15 AM

When I was starting out as a new young Forester (last century 1979) turpentining was still being done on a pretty significant scale.

newoodguy78 · October 01, 2021, 07:43:38 PM

Is it still being done on any sort of a commercial basis?

WDH · October 04, 2021, 09:24:57 AM

Not that I am aware of. I believe the natural products have been replaced by synthetics or are obsolete, and turpentine and tall oil soap are byproducts of the pine Kraft pulping process so most of the turpentine is produced that way. The old ways of using the trees and catch pans/pails have been replaced by the modern pulping process for pine pulp. The big pulpmill that I procured wood for for many years produced a lot of turpentine and tall oil soap.