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[Aunt Tat]

Missouri's finest rock!

I'll have to take some more photos when it stop raining.

The perches are live edge Red Oak from a 100' tall tree that blew down in a storm at my friends house (just missing the house by 20'). I cut them from the slab wood left over after milling the logs into lumber.

It's far from perfect and needs more things for them to do, I have two butt pickers in jail at the moment...

JT

I've never seen a Red Live Oak tree before (or a dead one for that matter) but the wood color is amazing!!!!

If you can mill your own lumber I bet it makes you sick to see the crap at Lowes/HD. I was lucky enough to grow up in a town that had a Tum-A-Lum lumber store. I STILL remember the heavenly smell!!

I live in Oregon and my dad and grandpa worked at a local Stimpson mill (well, dad didn't make his career there) And my mom was working in the office there.

When they built their house after the war, the manager hand-picked the lumber that was to be used for it.

Lumber/trees MAY be a "renewable" resource, but we'll NEVER see the likes of "old growth" lumber in our lifetime.

PS...are the butt pickers in the same cell so they can pick each other's butt? Get it out of their system??

 

[jthornton]

I've never seen a Red Live Oak tree before

There are no Live Oak's in Missouri, you find them in the South like Louisiana. A Live Oak does not drop it's leaves in the winter they are similar to a pine or cedar or juniper tree in that respect.

JT

 

[jthornton]

PS...are the butt pickers in the same cell so they can pick each other's butt? Get it out of their system??

They are side by side in separate cells so they can encourage each other.

HR

 

[Aunt Tat]

There are no Live Oak's in Missouri, you find them in the South like Louisiana. A Live Oak does not drop it's leaves in the winter similar to a pine or cedar or juniper tree.

JT

I know I've heard the term "Live Oak" in "Gone with the wind" and other southern stories. Guess that's why I never saw one
In Oregon, we have "Larch" trees which drop their needles in the winter.