Oh man, there is a very serious wood haul
David Hammond, in Powder Springs GA
>in the near future for me and my father.
Man, I'm so overwhelmed... My family talked to an older Docter today, who used to own almost three hundred acres, two miles from our house. We purchased some hay from him several months ago, and have just gotten to know him. The Doctor is an older man now, and had no children. He has just given all but forty acres of his land to a college. The land will begin to be leveled this June - and trees abound on this peice of property. We came to the gentleman today, who's name is Doc Hill, asking if we might hunt his soon to be leveled property for Beech tree saplings, as we would like some on our land. He said sure, but said he wanted to show us something - and he knows about our bowl turning business. We rode across a huge pasture and forded a creek, then climbed a hill to come upon a massive, massive Beech tree. I had no measuring tape, but the tree must be thirty-four, to thirty-six inches across... He pointed out several of these huge Beeches, five to seven trees, none of which are smaller than sixteen inches in diameter, the largest being that three foot monster. Then Doc Hill proceeded to tell us that we were welcome to fell these trees, if we thought we could use the wood for bowls... Could we?! The gentleman then proceeded to tell us that if we would get these trees on the ground, and bucked up into tractor managable logs, he would load them on his own flatbed Ford, and drive them to our house. So, tomorrow morning early, my father, brother, uncle and my big 395XPW head two miles down the road to begin harvesting what must be upwards of thirty tons of beech... There is also the possibility of five Hackberry trees, all of which are an average of two feet in diameter, the largest passing forty inches easy, but that monster may have a cavity. I hardly know where to start on such a project - I just finished reading Bill Grumbine's adventure for the umpteenth time, as well as the article on Earl's fir - fascinating reading. We only have half the day tomorrow, but we hope to begin just getting the trees thrown, and on the ground. Then, much chainsaw gas is to burned in the coming weeks! It looks like I'll be turning enormous amounts of Beech, and possible Hackberry, in the near future...
David - overwhelmed, in turning Heaven!
