Resin pot

The pot of resin is a terra cotta container intended to receive the resin which runs out of the Care of a pine gemmated. The use of the resin pot is associated with the Gemmage, which was practiced during centuries in the Landes of Gascogne.

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The resin pot was developed by a lawyer and farmer of Bordeaux, Pierre Hugues, who patented in 1844 a " nouveau" a method for collecting the resin: the system known as of the " pot ascensionnel".

Before second half of the XIXe century, the Gemmage was practiced according to a very artisanal technique and which offered poor yield: the gemmage with the crot (Gascon hole in ). To collect the resin, the former résiniers dug a hole with the foot of the pine, in general between the roots, which they papered of foam. The resin obtained, if it had not crystallized on the squares before arriving at the foot of the pine, was full with impurities: brushwood, sand, insects, and it contained only very few Spirits of turpentine.

With the Law of June 19th, 1857, all the communes of the Landes of Gascogne were obliged to timber their territories, and the shepherds gradually transformed themselves into Résinier S. the method of the Gemmage to the crot was not adapted for " industrialiser" the process. Thus new the " Hugues" system; who introduces the use of a terra cotta pot wedged between a zinc plate and a nail with the bottom of the care to collect the resin. This pot was known as upward because it followed each year the rise of the Care. The main advantage was that the collected resin contained less impurities.

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