What to do with hollow logs

How do you deal with (potential) bugs?

Re: What to do with hollow logs

Dick Coers

I've dealt with a powder post beetle infestation with thousands of board feet of lumber in a farm shed. I will not bring rotten wood into my home.

Re: What to do with hollow logs

Barry Irby

About 20 years ago my son got interested in raising wild ducks. We got some hollow logs and carved out the insides as best we could with a chainsaw, cut an hole in the side if one were not already there and put a piece of wood on top and mounted it on a pole in the Aviary I built for him. Made a bunch of them. Raised many ducklings. Fun to watch them leap out fearlessly.

Re: What to do with hollow logs

Clint Searl

The inside gets burned out, which kills any critters there, then wire brushed and soaked with BLO (the only valid use for which I've ever found, short of arson). If there are any worms remaining under the bark, it gets stripped and wire brushed. In over thirty five years indoors, there's never been a bug problem.

Love the hophornbeam sculpture

Re: What to do with hollow logs

Mark Mandell - Gone Round In New Jersey

And the Wormy Shag is for the Kids' room, right?