We’ve started harvesting the walnut tree that was blown down about a month ago. I cut the trunk at the base, and a few days later the stump righted itself and covered its own divot. We’ve seen this before when a healthy live tree is toppled by a storm. It’s amazing, some have said, kind […]
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The team worked at full strength Sunday sawing a poplar tree and stacking and stickering it in the kiln. We’re making a little progress on the summer storm backlog. After the Labor Day storms, our whole woodlands looks like it was “stirred with a stick” – it’s an expression we use here often. You couldn’t design a barrier to the front loop woodlands trail as beautiful as this 80-year-old black walnut tree that gave it up during the Labor Day weekend storm. Even the root ball is a piece of art. We’ll have to use the wood for a special project, maybe a harpsicord, just a thought. […] This young man began his apprenticeship at the sawmill when he was 3 years old. Now he is a fully tenured log wrangler. We love him.
Trumpet vines take over the sawmill this time of year. But THIS year the trumpet flowers are dropping almost as soon as they bloom. We have no basis for a theory, but we’re going with Canadian wildfire smoke… Years ago, we left an old Radio Flyer sled out on the ice over the pond, and it sunk during an early spring thaw. Now we’re magnet fishing for it. No bites yet but we’re having fun. It wasn’t easy, but we got the trail reopened today. Sorta… Made a couple maracas out of a black willow tree. Net worth: 17 cents each based on internal content. The potential widow pulls down the potential widow maker hung in the woodlands. http://www.woodlandssawmill.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/20260322_115223.mp4 |
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