Poison oak recipes????? Yikes.
What free wood did you find today?
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I in try to avoid Poison ivy/oak whenever possible because my wife is highly allergic. If I know I'm going to be working near some then I'll put on long clothes no matter how hot, but only after taking some dish washing soap or a wet bar of soap to rub it all over my hands, arms, neck & leg or any exposed skin. Afterwards I take a shower and wash off at least three times. The yucky soap feeling sure beats dealing with a very itching rash for two weeks.
Well, I dared it! When Karen wasn't looking, I cut off the bottom of the Walnut tree that was leaning over. And it did exactly what I predicted, as soon as it got free, it shot up like a catapult, missing me by an inch or two. Good news, I can start trimming it down.
Glad both she and it missed you!
All cleaned up took about a week for me to do it. Black Locust tree (not Walnut) taken care of... firewood for a guy in the church, and I'll have about 15 bowl blanks. The fall cracked a lot of the tree. The burn pile is all the canopy of the Black Locust. Still too wet to light up.
Found another Gamble Oak burl, and a Ponderosa pine burl, kinda look like yard ornaments to me, what do you think ?
Sorta looks like they want to live in Middle TN!
I'm sure they would love it there Mikey, but I'm a hoarder, so yard ornaments they are !
I think, in fake cowboy, boot wearing, two-stepping lingo - you sir are a tease! 
Yes sir ! I are that !!!!I think, in fake cowboy, boot wearing, two-stepping lingo - you sir are a tease!
Came across this little guy and a few of his buddies hiking around the Redwood Forest Nat Forest in southern Oregon this week.
But is it free? Would likely better fit in the „what nice tree did you see today“ thread
Wonder how many pen blanks could be cut from that tree?!?
I'd say 5 millions :D
It was free to park and free to hike up the hill to see it. If someone went up there and started chopping it down I'd be surprised if they were ever seen again.
Reminds me that I once heard that if you're in Italy and you chop down a producing olive tree a large man named Guido will come and hurt you. Severely. Several times.
I usually help him 
No good trip I take ever goes un-punished - but there is a silver lining. Second morning of my trip to Paradise......Texas! I got a phone call from Mrs. Lil Mikey saying we have a problem - a tree fell. And it wasn't even raining or windy. It clipped the corner of "The Little House" - what we call a playhouse storage building I built nearly 40 years ago for our daughter to NOT play in. I didn't put in an AC. The cherry trunk busted and fell, clipping the corner of the porch and brought down a sycamore limb and some walnut limbs with it. Will take the opportunity to also take down an ash tree that is sick and dying, a smaller cherry that was damaged as well as trimming of a couple of hackberries needed to be able to take down the ash. Will also have to cut down a couple of 40 yo Oak-leaf hydrangea and take some fence down to get the equipment needed to the back yard. Silver lining - I get some decent sized cherry and ash out of it. Free - sorta - if you don't count what we have to pay a tree service.
Main trunk that fell. Have not measured it, but about 18" dia. I'd guess. The walnut is to the left and the porch corner is just out of view on the right and a neighbor's house is about 15' to 20' to the left. So could have done a bunch more damage! I'll get all the downed stuff cut up myself, but the ash to come down and the trimming - I do not have the equipment or experience to get it down without damaging our house - or a neighbor's.
Main trunk that fell. Have not measured it, but about 18" dia. I'd guess. The walnut is to the left and the porch corner is just out of view on the right and a neighbor's house is about 15' to 20' to the left. So could have done a bunch more damage! I'll get all the downed stuff cut up myself, but the ash to come down and the trimming - I do not have the equipment or experience to get it down without damaging our house - or a neighbor's.
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Yeow on the damage! At least you will now have a good supply of wood! Chuck