6 Water oaks, 2 live oaks, 2 Magnolias, 9/10 Crepe Myrtles, 2 Wax Myrtles.
How many trees do you have.???
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BY JOYCE KILMER
I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in Summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.
I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in Summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.
Lots of Dogwoods, crepe myrtles, oaks, pines in my yard. I also have five Japanese Maples that all came from my sister in laws tree. Each fall, three of them are a different color than the two traditional bright red colors...
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Just removed 37,500,000 lbs of 95% gum over 5% pine in a custom thinning off my dirt last fall. The mills made me stop delivering the wood 3 different times as the mills were full. There is no wood shortage, the money they paid me was normal, so why is lumber is high now other than because companies drove it there????
And now those sawmills have figured out that they can produce a fraction of the lumber as before and still rake in the same amount of dough (while we all ‘pay the price’, literally and figuratively…..) I don’t know what it’s gonna take to force that industry back to normal.
I do business with Great Southern Wood (Yellawood) and they have been setting all time records for the amount of board feet cut in a day.
Have 14 acres in Lancaster, County so a lot of trees. In yard-dogwoods, magnolia, Bradford pears, some other kind of pear, pines of course, redbuds, pecans, cedars, etc. Have just spent $1200, which seemed excessive, to have a huge cedar that died removed. Have spent 3 or 4,000 $ to have other undesired trees removed/cut back. Some because of blocking DTV signal. Now will have to have cedar stump ground down.
Not to brag, BUT have been complimented on beautiful yard. Takes 3 or 4 hrs to cut counting trimming and spraying F/A hills and weeds and getting up grass debris with walk behind bagger. Have 52" zero turn mower bought from Sears🤦♂️😒years ago. Wish zero turn had bagger.
Not to brag, BUT have been complimented on beautiful yard. Takes 3 or 4 hrs to cut counting trimming and spraying F/A hills and weeds and getting up grass debris with walk behind bagger. Have 52" zero turn mower bought from Sears🤦♂️😒years ago. Wish zero turn had bagger.
That doesn't surprise me. With the demand sawmills could probably run 24/7 and not catch up for a few months.
Both the mills and the government created the problem. The mills miscalculated when Covid hit, thinking there would be a slowdown, and either went to 50% or temporary shutdown. When the mills realized they miscalculated, they couldn't get the guys back to work, they were making more on unemployment. Just a total screw-up on both parties, and guess who's paying for it? All of us. I expect with the additional federal ending in SC end of June, we're going to see more b/f being produced in the mills.
Lumber is dropping significantly, but still much higher than it was 18 months ago. At one point, what I had been buying for $10, I was paying $30-35 for.
The mills are also sitting on alot of wood. If you want the truth, ask the truck driver that brings it in. Had one that delivered a truckload last week and asked him how much wood was on the yard. He laughed, said there's no shortage, said you couldn't stack another bundle of wood on the yard at the mill he just came from.
Lumber is dropping significantly, but still much higher than it was 18 months ago. At one point, what I had been buying for $10, I was paying $30-35 for.
The mills are also sitting on alot of wood. If you want the truth, ask the truck driver that brings it in. Had one that delivered a truckload last week and asked him how much wood was on the yard. He laughed, said there's no shortage, said you couldn't stack another bundle of wood on the yard at the mill he just came from.
That would be a Catalpa tree, aka Indian cigar tree. They we’re planted around country homes a few generations ago to collect Sphinx moth caterpillars/worms for fishing. Also was used for a variety of medicinal purposes. I have 4 HUGE catalpa trees on my land that were planted way before my time. Find an old country house around 100 years old or so, and you’ll find at least 1 catalpa tree close by.
That is what we called it but in this day and age of wokeness I didn't want to call it what we use to call that tree.
Thanks for the information, very interesting.
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