Sweet Gum Balls

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Even the buckets are bigger in Texas...
 

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I don't know that ive ever seen a 7 gal bucket and i about as Texan as u can get... u sure that aint some weird metric bucket? :watchingyou:
 

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WOW ok here's a size comparison of buckets. I was mixing up some tanning solution one day and determined that these hold right at 7 gallons. Originally they contained chlorine tablets for my son's pool.

But what about the gumballs? LOL

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I had a sweet gum in my yard at my last house. You couldn't walk barefoot in the yard because of those gum balls. I hated that tree.
 

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This is a sweet gum tree story..

We had a windstorm here about less than a month ago and fires here in Bonney Lake,,,, pretty darn scarey I tell you...
luckily I was prob about 3-5 mi from it.....Or a bunch of hills away from me....Smokey as all get out ...the power was out for a day and a half.....I think the altitude here at my place is prob 600 ft above sea level.
For about 4 days it was not safe to go outside.. so when finally the smoke cleared a bit it was still really warm out
I think 90 ....an thats really hot for Bonney Lake.....The fire then was said to be 20% contained....
They are saying it is 95% contained now..
Any way I could drive over a hill real close to me, an then drive down a bit on the other side of the hill
and I could see the the helicopters dropping water on the fire ...

Any way I had a Sweet gum tree story......There is about A mile of sweet gum trees lining a street near me...just a block
away...and a big branch was blown down............It was so smoky out I did not get over to cut it....It was a limb about
7 ft not real big tho maybe the largest part of the branch was 4-5 in... when the smoke cleared.......no sweet gum for me.....said the tree nazi..........haha

Oh a couple of our neighbors lost their homes..........Fire is so god awful.......!!!!!!

We always think ....It can't happen here....!

take care all ,,,mucho love
 

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I'd like to try my hand at casting a few of those. What are you asking for in trade?
 

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@Rocking RP and @Barb got their medium flat rate box of sweet gumballs heading out to them!! Got enough for 1 more box. Actually there's a bazillion of them falling behind the fence but those aren't dried. Anybody want that last box
 

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Got mine today and I'm looking forward to casting them. Thank you! It was so cool because I forgot they were coming and it was a like an early Christmas. :)
 
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