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DRP
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# Posted: 13 Apr 2025 08:59pm
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The same week my wife's group got a full page thank you for river cleanup, the opposing page was hurricane damage, and it is... damn, we got knocked back a decade or more. So, half, or more than half, of the river cleanup effort is the wildlife club. Their kitchen counter is abut done, and a huge... 4' diameter butternut, white walnut, along the river got knocked over. We got what I think is the countertop today, before we stripped out the sprocket on the largest production chainsaw made. That is a 6' bar. It's a big freakin tree!  
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MtnDon
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# Posted: 13 Apr 2025 09:47pm - Edited by: MtnDon
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Oh my goodness! 
There are likely no living trees of that size here any more. There are some huge old stumps from logging up into the 30s & 40s can still be found. There are a couple of approx 32 to 36" ponderosas nearby.
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gcrank1
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# Posted: 13 Apr 2025 10:21pm
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Just WOW
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jsahara24
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# Posted: 14 Apr 2025 08:34am
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Impressive tree...pictures never do them justice either, but looking at the person standing on a rock/stump and the tree coming up to their waist certainly helps give scale! And much of the tree has already been cut!
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DRP
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# Posted: 20 Apr 2025 07:21pm - Edited by: DRP
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We got the 5 big butternut slabs stickered under shelter today. I got my trailer back, which they had been on since last weekend. That meant I could go get the skidsteer back, an old client needed to do some driveway work. I got unloaded with time to run the next whack of garden logs down to the mill. Time to pour it on processing, the greens bolted yesterday, which also means its bluestain season for wood. 2 new french doors came to replace the old ones. I went with fiberglass this time. I'll take the trailer and go get them tomorrow.
I forgot to mention something neat about butternut. For one Gifford Pinchot's office was paneled in it. It was often used for coachwork as well. The memory is of its use as a dye though. The inner bark is, pretty much the color of butternut squash. A dye was made from it and during the civil war poor southern soldiers were dressed in clothing dyed with the bark. Yankee's called them "butternuts". While we were sawing, some of the club members were cleaning up, some were cooking. At lunch they fed us well, barbeque, fixins, peach cobbler. We had to pull up from the trough or it would have required a nap. Anyway, during lunch I mentioned about the dye and uniforms. One of the members has his Great Grandfather's butternut uniform, that is cool.
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MtnDon
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# Posted: 20 Apr 2025 08:13pm - Edited by: MtnDon
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I'm interested in seeing how the butternut looks as a countertop and whatever else it is used for.
These are cool facts about Pinchot's office paneling and its use as a dye. Even better, someone has his great-grandfather's butternut-dyed uniform.
Are the fiberglass doors for replacing your house doors?
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DRP
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# Posted: 21 Apr 2025 08:41am
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Yes, the wooden pair on the front, south side, are done. They lasted a little over 30 years but the door bottoms on a couple are rotted and all the seals have failed. Off to town, here's hoping they are not too heavy!
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