Clean your blade with Sloes

Here's a little tip for those of you who use your knife to harvest pine or spruce resin, you've all seen just how sticky and difficult to remove it can be, well here's a little in field trick to help you clean your blade

 

 

first gather some fresh sloes from a blackthorn

 

cut a slice from the sloe and use the inside flesh to rub the blade

 

you'll soon start to notice that the acid in the sloe starts to remove the resin, it may take a little while but persevere

 

and after about 5 minutes.. a fresh clean blade!