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  2. Naval stores - Wikipedia

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    These materials include rosin, tall oil, pine oil, and turpentine. Crude gum or oleoresin can be collected from the wounds of living pine trees. The term naval stores originally applied to the organic compounds used in building and maintaining wooden sailing ships, a category which includes cordage, mask, turpentine, rosin, pitch and tar. These ...

  3. Wood preservation - Wikipedia

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    The depth obtained during regular steeping periods varies from 5 to 10 mm (0.20 to 0.39 in) up to 30 mm (1.2 in) by sap pine. Due to the low absorption, solution strength should be somewhat stronger than that in pressure processes, around 5% for seasoned timber and 10% for green timber (because the concentration slowly decreases as the ...

  4. Oakum - Wikipedia

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    Oakum and tools for caulking Hemp Prisoners picking oakum at Coldbath Fields Prison in London. Oakum is a preparation of tarred fibers used to seal gaps. Its traditional application was in shipbuilding for caulking or packing the joints of timbers in wooden vessels and the deck planking of iron and steel ships. [1]

  5. Home Depot vs. Lowe’s: Which Has the Better Deals? - AOL

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    At Home Depot, a rental truck costs $19 for 75 minutes, or $129 per day. At Lowe’s, it’s $19 for 90 minutes, plus $15 for each additional 15 minutes, or $89 all day. Craftsman Products

  6. Naval stores industry - Wikipedia

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    With the demise of wooden ships, those uses of pine resin ended, but the former naval stores industry remained vigorous as new products created new markets. First extensively described by Frederick Law Olmsted in his book A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States (1856), [3] the naval stores industry was one of the economic mainstays of the southeastern United States until the late 20th century.

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    Taylor Ardrey, USA TODAY November 20, 2024 at 1:05 PM Police in Oklahoma are searching for a child who vanished three years ago after her mother allegedly gave her to a man selling her drugs ...

  8. Turpentine - Wikipedia

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    To tap into the sap producing layers of the tree, harvesters used a series of hacks to remove the pine bark. Once debarked, pine trees secrete crude turpentine onto the surface of the wound as a protective measure to seal the opening, resist exposure to micro-organisms and insects, and prevent vital sap loss. Harvesters wounded trees in V ...

  9. Kirby Smart apologizes for calling Georgia player who ...

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    Kirby Smart regrets what he said about safety Jake Pope. Smart said Monday that Pope was “an idiot” for celebrating with old high school friends who had rushed the field following Ole Miss ...