workinforwood
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The nickname has never been just a name, it's always been the truth! I love wood and have never been afraid to get dirty for it. You know, exotic wood, it isn't just wood from the Amazon or Africa. Exotic wood is technically all wood that is not harvested for commercial use. So even a wood like purple heart from Mexico is not exotic, and yet an apple tree from Michigan is exotic. For a person like me, either exotic or domestic they are both awesome sauce as long as they have either a story or some character, and if it's from Michigan it's just that much more special!
Harvesting your own wood requires patience of a yr minimum, and often a few yrs, but it's free and when stashed away you just forget about it until some day you stumble upon the finished, dry gem and remember the gathering and cutting and storing of it, so gratifying.
Here's a few recent ones I am excited about. On the left is kiwi. The vines I just burned but the root balls are where the potential is at, so I dug them up. The larger ones I sliced in half. A quick identification and harvest date written on them. Truly exotic and unusual
On the right is a root ball from a cedar bush. These are the types of cedar bushes that only grow a few feet high and wide that people decorate around their homes. I saw a neighbor digging them up, so I offered to pull them with my tractor as long as I could keep one. The character inside the root ball has major potential because there's so many branches all stemming from the same place. It's domestic in a way and very exciting!
Harvesting your own wood requires patience of a yr minimum, and often a few yrs, but it's free and when stashed away you just forget about it until some day you stumble upon the finished, dry gem and remember the gathering and cutting and storing of it, so gratifying.
Here's a few recent ones I am excited about. On the left is kiwi. The vines I just burned but the root balls are where the potential is at, so I dug them up. The larger ones I sliced in half. A quick identification and harvest date written on them. Truly exotic and unusual
On the right is a root ball from a cedar bush. These are the types of cedar bushes that only grow a few feet high and wide that people decorate around their homes. I saw a neighbor digging them up, so I offered to pull them with my tractor as long as I could keep one. The character inside the root ball has major potential because there's so many branches all stemming from the same place. It's domestic in a way and very exciting!