Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Shade Tree Utilization



We were busy last weekend replacing rotted wood in southwest corner of the old barn. A railroad tie is the ground contact, to discourage termites, and the timber that rests on it grew just a stone's throw away; a pitch pine planted by Mrs. True Blue Sam's mother in 1945. We needed some 14' stringers for hanging siding, so we pulled out the timber cut from the top log and sliced it up with a chainsaw and table saw.

A thunderstorm tore the top out of this tree in early 2007, and we stashed the lumber from it in the barn, figuring that it would come in handy sometime.

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