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Nothing & Everything => Open Discussion => Topic started by: Jake on November 15, 2009, 10:30:04 PM
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braught this slab, along with 5 others home the other day. Not sure what type of tree it is; it fell on my buddies house :( he wasn't in at the time. I think it weights ~700-800 pounds - my friend (who is about the same size as me) and I we could not pick it up and had to use some Polish ingenuity to first load it on the truck, and then unload it :p.
I'm planning to let it dry out for about 6 months and then make two large coffee tables from it - for sale of course. Any takers ;)
How old do you guys think it is? I counted the rings and my guess was off by a decade.
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I'm not going to bother to blow that up and count them, so a rough guess says 95 years.
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Interesting, it looks like it started as two sprouts and they merged with the left one being about 2 years older.
I'm gonna go with 112
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73.
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127
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118
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120
And if I had a house, I'd be all about the table. What you going to seal it with?
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12 - ITS BIG-BONE-DED!!!
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:lol:
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666. I'd get that tree out of the house ASAP.
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200.
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666. I'd get that tree out of the house ASAP.
What??
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U didn't get it?
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I get the reference to the number and why you'd want to get it out of the house... i just don't get where he came up with that number... unless it was just a bad joke. ;)
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Go with the bad joke theory :p
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Charlie was the closest - I counted 64 rings.
Interesting, it looks like it started as two sprouts and they merged with the left one being about 2 years older.
I'm gonna go with 112
yup, that is why I think it appears older than it really is.
Anyone have any idea how to check what kind of wood this is? all the leafs were gone already, so I have no idea how to check what this really is...maybe by the bark?
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Charlie was the closest - I counted 64 rings.
:woot: I should get to set your avatar as my reward. :p :wutang:
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Charlie was the closest - I counted 64 rings.
:woot: I should get to set your avatar as my reward. :p :wutang:
go for it.
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The bark can hint to the type, so can the smell/scent
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Charlie was the closest - I counted 64 rings.
:woot: I should get to set your avatar as my reward. :p :wutang:
go for it.
I still am supposed to do it for guessing the baby info closest. I planned on making one but have been real busy lately. One of these days I'll get to it, I promise. :)
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BTW, my dad told me what tree this is: honey locust (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey_locust). Very interesting tree. The streets in my neighborhood are lined with them and I never knew its name - weird.