i cant spell worth a darn but u take a live oak tree around 6 or 7 inches , cut tree whan all leaves fall off in the fall or winter snow ... cut tree into 4 ft long . buy some inoculated wood plugs they look like white dowl plugs 3/8 by 1/2 inch long the mushroom suppliers sell shiitake kits or oyster and others anyway the kit comes wioth a drill bit and y drill holes in logs and tap the plugs in the logs . every 3 or 4 inches of the log has to have a plug , after that u paint brush hot wax over the plugs to seal the logs back up .after that just stack the logs laying on the ground in a pile out of direct sun light (like under a pine tree shady and out of the wind ) , let the leaves fall on them let the snow fall , give it 6 months or so i did 15 logs took around 4 hours and thats all the work for years of fruit . i water with a hose every once in a wile in summer heat to keep them from drying out . mabe 4 times a summer in zone 6 , try it u like it ,,, they are great in scrtambeled eggs . i pick up a chicken get a egg abd cut a mushroom off a log and im good to go .
