Wow, what a story! You could write uuuhhh..... Maybe not. No child would be able to sleep after that story
were they old enough to make it? my wife has raised baby squirrels from a tree blown down in a tornado. they made it and would come to her call for years.
Oh yeah, they were fine and about 3/4 grown. After finding them I tried to shoo them away with a stick so I could continue working. They wouldn't come out of that hollow for nothing. So I quite and took a shower because I was going golfing. After eating lunch and dressing, they were still there when I took the pic. One finally took off but the other 2 were still there. When I came home after 18 holes they were gone. There was no hair in the hollow so the saw never touched any of them.
I found a couple interesting things this past Saturday. Well...I found them interesting anyways....but it doesn't take much to keep me entertained.
Yup in a 10" locust. It was a neat looking gallery. Can't decide if the 2nd pic is a mushroom, or an insect larvae.
Could be? There was a uranium refining site about 100 miles away back in the day. That locust tree had all kinds of stuff going on. Big ol poison ivy vine on it, ants, rot, the works.
There's some crazy guys doing youtube videos while dropping molten aluminum into different objects.....and I guarantee if one of those guys had this chunk of wood, that's exactly what he'd do. They'd let it cool and pop it apart to see what 'art' masterpiece was created. They even dump it into swimming pools and other crazy stuff. Kids these days ...... What are they gonna think of next !!!!
Great! Just what we need...another way to start a fire! Bottom up, Top down, and now Molten aluminum!! Can you imagine just how complicated this will be for some people????
Have ya'all ever noticed that walnut will have the most small caliber rifle rounds than anything? We ran thousands of feet of lumber out of our old mill and it was very noticeable. Here's an example out of one we cut back in the 70's and stored until a recent coat rack project for the daughter in law.... Then I remembered how many times as a kid I'd pack the old Mossberg .22 along while going after the cows for evening milking and the resultant pot shots at the squirrels in the walnut and hickory trees. It all came together then.... We've seen most of the typical listed by others and the old man taught us to never stick a saw into a crotch of a tree. The reason being that during all the early years on the farm plowing with a team of mules as debris was found in the fields, he'd carry it to the ends of the fields and lodge whatever it was in a tree crotch or trunk/branch. So he figured that's what everybody did. Makes sense too, because it he'd tossed it over the fence, it'd just go into another field or pasture.
Uhhhhhh....it was just sitting there in the stack with another thousand board feet or so of its brethern. Its kinda like the couple thousand bd ft of red cedar, cherry, mulberry, poplar, slippery elm, pine and oak resting beside it too. Unused and just a waiting their turn with a wood butcher. Heck, I still have some of my grandpas cypress he floated down the Mississippi in the early 30's to build our new cow barn....unused too. Yeah, I'm a firewood AND a wood hoarder..... I trimmed my bathroom a few years back with some beautiful slippery elm that my dad and uncle sawed for a buddy in 1964. I was looking at tools at the old boys yard sale about 15 years ago knowing who he was. The conversation came around to our old mill and he told me of the stack of elm sitting in his barn. We looked at it and he insisted I load it up. I tried to pay him but he insisted that it should go back home as he was selling his tools anyway.... So I used some of it on our bathroom and the rest is resting alongside of what was listed above. 5/4 x 10" x 10' and 5/4 x 12" x 10', most of it anyway and its in a stack about waist high. ....and THAT, (reminiscent of Paul Harvey) is the REST of the story. Actually not, but its a good place to stop.....
A couple days ago I was filling up my wheelbarrow and picked up a block of ash that seemed alot heavier than it looked. Upon closer examination, I found what looked like an axe head stuck in the end of it. Not too sure how that happened (I buy my wood cut/split), maybe the guy I bought it from was using an axe head as a wedge and it got stuck so left it in there. I put the block in the stove and when it burned, I then took out the axe head. A lot of the wood I'm burning this year has had fence wire embedded in it, so I examine it carefully when I have to cut it a bit shorter.
