Maybe some good will come from a very sad occurence. The cemetary in the small farming town I grew up in had the probably nearly 100 pine trees invaded by the pine bark beatle which has a 100% kill rate. They lined the lanes and gave color to otherwise dreary winter funerals where the other trees had just barren branches. The trees had to be cut down and burned to prevent spreading the infestation but I was told the beatle only invades the bark and the layer immediately below so if the trunks could be peeled or "squared" the infected part could be burned and the center cut into lumber. The catch was the trees could not be transported to any other location. I have a friend with a portable saw mill that cuts lumber for pallets so he's going to saw me up what should be knot free, dense, close grained old growth bed wood boards. Small compensation but a tiny bit of good may come from the loss.
That's a bummer~ BUT, it is great that they will be turned into something as sweet as bed wood for these old rigs! Any idea of kit prices yet? (Just wondering...)
That is a bit of a sad story, but good that some use may still be had for the wood. Is the sawmill friend gonna' cut up a lot of the wood, or just enough for your truck?
Considdering the quality of the wood These trees are big and have a lot of cubic inches of wood in them, much bigger then the onces we grow in our forrest. Normally that quality wood goes to the cellulose industry here or People make fire Wood from them. Not easy to handle though With the chainsaw or Wood prosessor machine. Maybe there not the best trees to make materials from as they have a lot of branches in them ? Thanks for sharing your photo is that you ? Martinius.
