Tractors and wood! Show your pics
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Gordon Gould
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Not all all. Consider it is now soil-building.
Exactly - Natures way of recycling minerals and nutrients. IMO wood left to rot is never a waste ! In fact we are depleting our precious forest soils largely because people think storm and logging debris are ugly and insist that it is all cleaned up and remove from the forest. Forest soil microbes and amphibians love a big old rotting log. They are an important component to a healthy forest ecology.
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Considering I once bought a huge pile of rough cut cotton wood a guy had sitting in his heated garage, all for $75.00 and all of it was then dry.
I designed a sewing table made from "cottonwood" and showed it to the local sewing/vac place, they liked it a LOT and put it in their shop. It wasn't too long and the orders were coming in for those sewing tables (and other things) , and I worked on that $75.00 pile of cottonwood for more than a year and made a pile of money off it.
Cottonwood makes lighter weight furniture that when finished right, looks beautiful.
I've also heard that many folks like it for trailer decking and other uses...
Like I said, burying it IS a huge waste!
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Sawyer Rob
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So, you never pull dead wood or left behind tree tops out of the woods for firewood???
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Yes of coarse I do. And there is nothing wrong with using blow downs or cutting trees for lumber or firewood. It is a good thing to do. All I am saying is that not using a tree for the benefit of mankind and just letting it rot should not be considered a waste. Because doing that is a benefit to the nature. Remember the old saying "nothing is wasted in nature".
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Sounds like a double standard to me! lol
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Just the opposite, there's no wrong answer. Cut it up for lumber? Sure. Firewood? That's good too. Leave it on the ground? Alright. Bury it, sequester some carbon and build the soil? That's good too.
Your options are good too, SR, but burying it isn't a huge waste.
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Depending on depth burying might be a 'waste'... Though not for the reason SR so forcefully demands.
Without some oxygen it's going to to be centuries to decompose. Surface decomposition would likely be better.
Without some oxygen it's going to to be centuries to decompose. Surface decomposition would likely be better.
DieselBound
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Only energy and time can be wasted.
If man didn't expend energy to process this/a tree then nature would "process" it.
Most of what I've dealt with are stumps: left over from logging operations (not my doing). The stumps are below ground and in my area stuff underground can last forever (especially cedar!). With the exception of this cottonwood and a few other trees that I needed to cut to clear for fencing I don't go cutting trees (I wait for them to come down and they they're firewood).
I SAVE a lot of saplings (hand to hand combat to free them of blackberry vines), so please don't try to incriminate/judge me on how I manage my trees. Got that?
If man didn't expend energy to process this/a tree then nature would "process" it.
Most of what I've dealt with are stumps: left over from logging operations (not my doing). The stumps are below ground and in my area stuff underground can last forever (especially cedar!). With the exception of this cottonwood and a few other trees that I needed to cut to clear for fencing I don't go cutting trees (I wait for them to come down and they they're firewood).
I SAVE a lot of saplings (hand to hand combat to free them of blackberry vines), so please don't try to incriminate/judge me on how I manage my trees. Got that?
Creamer
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Does cottonwood last for trailer floors? I find it rots quickly.
For tables I would think it would would dent and scratch very easily. How do you finish it properly to have it last?
