The Saddest Thing I've Heard In Awhile (Longish)

[dlminehart]

I'd think that the excavated wood could be hosed off with a pressure washer before putting it in a sawmill.

[Thom2]

I am deeply sorry for your loss Ken

Burying such wood is surely a terrible tragedy...


that's at least 2 or 3 winter's worth of good firewood just TOTALLY gone to waste ......


Thom
<the snow shovelin' yankee runs, ducks and hides>

[Jeffrey Schronce]

Hey, digging them up might well be worth investigating. Just last week I saw a "Modern Marvels" on the History Channel. The subject was "Lumber Yards" and a major part of the story was about old lumber and trees that were being reclaimed from the bottom of the Great Lakes, bogs, buried in fields, and even at the bottom of harbors.

CWS

I was going to start a thread on this show but I got too lazy. For those of you who haven't saw this program it pretty cool. They go through history of wood as commodities, sawmills, reclaimation of wood as described above, imported hardwoods, etc. May not be impressive to some of the veterans out there, but I thought it was pretty cool.

[liqdfire]

Hey, digging them up might well be worth investigating. Just last week I saw a "Modern Marvels" on the History Channel. The subject was "Lumber Yards" and a major part of the story was about old lumber and trees that were being reclaimed from the bottom of the Great Lakes, bogs, buried in fields, and even at the bottom of harbors.

It might be worthwhile examing the area, I would think it would take some major excavation (deep) to bury one on top of the other. Of course the expense of digging them up might be a bit challenging. Also, a big question would be how big are the pieces... did they fall the tree trunk in one massive length or did they chunk it up (I can't stand the thought!)?

It's a sad story for sure, and one that unfortunately repeats itself all across the country.

CWS

That was an excellent episode. I reallylike the Huge trees they were digging out of the ground of the rain forest that had been burried for hundreds of years.

[dwolsten]

Aren't there places that buy old trees like this? Surely they have some significant economic value.

[430752]

burying a tree???

I'm just a dumb city boy, but I've never heard of burying a tree?!?! What's that about?

curt j.