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03-18-2010, 08:16 PM
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Location: Southern New Hampshire
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Now THAT'S a great idea! Safe schrooming in your own backyard  Wonder if you can get morels started that way (prolly not--would be too good to be true...)
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Yuo want a really creative idea, how about culturing mushrooms? They sell dowels that are impregnated with mushroom spores. Simply drill holes in the tree stumps, plug the dowels in and wait. I haven't done it but heard it is easy.
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03-18-2010, 09:11 PM
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Originally Posted by MCNPA
Yuo want a really creative idea, how about culturing mushrooms? They sell dowels that are impregnated with mushroom spores. Simply drill holes in the tree stumps, plug the dowels in and wait. I haven't done it but heard it is easy.
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Great idea, but since these are pine, white pine, it won't work. In all my uyears I have never seen a white pine form any kind of fungus. Hemplock will, a red patent leather moose antler like shelf fungus, of which I forget the name for the moment. I have used these for fire making, and find then so-so. but nothing of the sort from white pine.
For this idea to work maple and rotting oaks, beech, birches, all so called hard woods is needed. Pine goes to bleached out gray and weathered to a red rot, that supports nothing.
When this type tree is dead it is a wise idea to cut it down because the pine borrer lives on inside. The stump won't support them though.
If this tree happens to be really tall, and you still have access to the top, you could hunt pine pearls, which is fun.
You hunt for pitch pockets way up high and once you find a blister nick it open. This is pretty sticky work, but the pearls are way cool. They can be used as beads. Pretty much these are made the same way real pearls are.
Something attacks the tree, and the tree tries to kill it. A round bit of cambium breaks off under the outter bark and it spins and hardens into a wooden bead not perfect, but close. Not all pines have these, not even in the same lot. |
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03-18-2010, 10:51 PM
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Yeah, forgot it was pine. Hardwoods certainly for growing mushrooms. BTW Morels can be done too, but I believe the process is more difficult. There are websites that sell packages for raising different types of great mushrooms pretty easily.
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03-19-2010, 06:00 AM
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Location: S. New Hampshire
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Rats, for a sec I was rubbing my hands at the thought of mushrooms. I LOVE mushrooms.  We have only one hardwood in the lot. Dh was thinking of turning that into a seat or totem pole because it's in a good spot. Most of the stumps will be taken away because if we want law it doesn't make sense to have stumps all over. But there is a huge twin pine right next to the driveway, in an island where we already have bushes, and we thought it might be fun to turn that into something. |
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03-19-2010, 09:12 AM
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If cash is no problem I know an artist that could carve these to anything you want in living detail right down to the last stitch. He lives in Tuftonboro, but he is good, and knows it, so not exactly cheap. He is flexible in that he will travel, when he can't brind the object to carve home, which of course he prefers.
Yeah, some stumps should come out, if you want lawn. That can be pricey too, for a day with a fairly large excavator needed, but is worth it, when there is several or more stumps needing to be gone. We had this done here for around 12 really big stumps in the way. All were better than 4 feet in diameter, and it took the operator all day. I did another with a back hoe on a bob cat, a much smaller unit, and that took me the better part of 2 days. I wouldn't even attempt such a thing with a stupid stick. (shovel)
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03-19-2010, 10:09 AM
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Location: Southern New Hampshire
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Find 2 that are 10 or so feet apart, leave them sticking out of the ground 5 feet or so, and use them as hammock supports  and if there's another one within reaching distance, make it into a table to keep your umbrella drink! on.... |
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03-19-2010, 02:44 PM
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Location: S. New Hampshire
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Find 2 that are 10 or so feet apart, leave them sticking out of the ground 5 feet or so, and use them as hammock supports and if there's another one within reaching distance, make it into a table to keep your umbrella drink! on.... |
Heyyyyyyy, now there's an idea! I will tuck that away, thanks! |
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03-19-2010, 07:07 PM
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Location: The Shire !
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As far as the stumps go have a chainsaw carver come in and spread some whimsy around.
The wood might be a little big for what I normally do, but take a look at my album to get an idea of what can be done with smaller stock.
There's an artist by the name of George Nakashima who does womders with large slabs. He did a lot of work with "live edge" slabs.
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03-19-2010, 10:07 PM
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Location: Monadnock region
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wow, Mr Twigg, I love those!
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03-20-2010, 06:05 AM
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Location: Sunset Mountain
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A forest full of Gnome Homes!
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