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Jesse8fox1	What are some uses for sassafras	Lead	[-]
Posts: 39 (07/04/09 2:19 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Tags : None What are some uses for sassafras i got a whole bunch in my back yard and want to do something with them. Thanks Last Edited By: Jesse8fox1 07/04/09 3:01 PM. Edited 1 time.
TribalEurope		#1	[-]
Posts: 60 (07/04/09 6:54 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	well, you can make a tea of the roots, but know that it is a known carcinogen. Greyson Brewer "On the hunt for History" Interest: Paleo-Europe
perri smith		#2	[-]
Posts: 152 (07/04/09 9:28 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	can be used as an air freshener. you can use the green limbs and leaves to smoke meats. kind of gives it an anise flavor.
Hillbilly NC		#3	[-]
Posts: 2853 (07/05/09 5:06 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Sassafras tea from the root bark is great, and the carcinogen bullcrap is nonsense. Anything is a carcinogen if you pack enough of it into a lab rat over a period of time. The studies were done by feeding enough pure concentrated saffrole to rats to equal ten lifetimes of consumption by a heavy tea drinker. I guess if you drank 120 glasses of sass tea a day for fifteen years, you might want to start worrying. I would worry more about the added chemicals, dyes, hormones, and preservatives in the food we buy at the grocery store Table salt will also kill you if you eat a whole box of it at once. The leaves can be dried and ground into file powder, a common ingredient in Cajun cooking. The wood can be used to make bows, arrows, and many other things. Sassafras wood was the traditional material for making ox yokes here in the Southern Appalachians, so if you have a team of steers that are needing a yoke, have at it. Sassafras also has medicinal properties, it was one of the first things exported to Europe from the American colonies and was considered at one time to be a panacaea. Save the Cro-Magnons
megalithics		#4	[-]
Posts: 24 (07/05/09 7:14 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I use sassafrass for a couple of things. First, you can almost always use it for a fire because it retards moisture well and can be broken in the hands easily. Second, I also use it for its slickness. I use it for my trap triggers because it is so slick, it gives a very fast action to my snare.s triggers. Larry
countrynatureboy17		#5	[-]
Posts: 2 (07/06/09 10:44 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	i agree on hillbilly NC about the carcinogen bullcrap. they put tht out to scare people into making homemade 'free' nature consumables, so ppl will BUY products, therefor making money. but i've dont it a lot, very good. you want a tree about 4-5 feet, so roots .5 to 2 inches. dont have to peel or anything, just cut to fit into pot after a lil scrub off of dirt. boil for 15 minutes i'd say, or more for stronger, tho too much is bitter, if then water it down some. i usually dont even add sweetners or anything, tasty as is. also a big note, the same roots can be used 3 or 4 times with still good tea making. try it and good luck, kevin.
mohawkwoodman		#6	[-]
Posts: 41 (07/06/09 11:09 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Sassafras is very useful i use it for headache by boiling it up real good drink its good for lowering your blood pressure over time, the french used to use it to help curb hunger i think along with indian tobacco. its good for dyeing up bones for an older look to things like hairpipe bone beads. makes some nice carvings to.
spoons		#7	[-]
Posts: 108 (07/06/09 6:01 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	in the past small saplings were the prefered handles for brooms, and the planking for the old flat bottom boats as the wood does not rot if kept wet,
jebster25	sassafras	#8	[-]
Posts: 97 (07/07/09 3:22 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	The branches make great looking hiking sticks. I have made several from sassafras.
mole		#9	[-]
Posts: 592 (07/07/09 5:35 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	My buddy Bruce has made bows from it. They are lower weight bows, but because of the light physical weight of the wood they have pretty good performance. John
soundmotor		#10	[-]
Posts: 17 (07/07/09 6:47 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I made a retainer fence from sassafras saplings that were all over my yard. I cut them all to eyeball rough length then cross-drilled each 2X in the same spot (made drill press jig) so the bottom would be even. Then strung them w/ galvanized fence wire and drove 2' rebar into hillside and wired fence to it and backfilled. Since they were put in green they should last a decent length of time as there is some natural bug & rot resistance to green wood. If I get 5 years I'll be happy.
hillbilly1		#11	[-]
Posts: 30 (07/07/09 4:24 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	i agree with hillbillync 100%.but to go a little farther. since i was little we also used the leaves to make tea & i still do. now if anybody is interested i will tell you how to make cowchip tea. hillbilly1 army's in the city, missles stand ready for flight,a pale horse rides like the wind through the night
Wildcraftr		#12	[-]
Posts: 109 (07/08/09 4:14 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	File (fee-lay) powder is made from sassafrass leaves, dried and ground. Used to thicken soups and sauces. Add near the end of cooking. The new growth in spring smells like a mix of vanilla and orange peel.
westbow		#13	[-]
Posts: 98 (08/13/09 4:29 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I met a guy this weekend who makes english style longbows out of sassafrass they were beautiful and shot very nicely they looked like yew. he said it was about 65# pull.
lloydwinter		#14	[-]
Posts: 133 (08/14/09 12:30 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	you can make root beer from sassafras Lloyd "The Bow is bent and drawn; make from the shaft" Lear, Act 1, scene 1
EB Jones		#15	[-]
Posts: 1115 (08/15/09 4:02 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	now if anybody is interested i will tell you how to make cow chip tea. OKAY, I'm game how do you make "cow chip tea" this has gotta be good :-)...I'm an old farm boy and I just can't imagine( right)...LOL

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