I consider myself lucky to live in a place where such a tree grows so freely. My neighbor just dropped a medium sized black walnut tree because it was problematic. I helped him for the day, and we chain-sawed, lopped, burned and split. In return, he is providing me with more of the stuff than I can possibly use (which is a fair trade if you are a wood-person).
I do apologize for not taking footage of dropping the tree or using the log splitter (which, incidentally, my neighbor fabricated, and it would have made for an interesting video), but it was a tiring and busy day. I will be uploading some of the process of turning logs into usable material in the near future, so stay tuned. Also, thanks for reading the description. That means that you are a good person; maybe we would even be friends in real life.
Side note:
Don't drink black walnut tincture. I have found absolutely no evidence to support the claim that it cures anything, or that it has any health benefit whatsoever. In fact, it could make you horribly sick. The year that I made these jars of stain, I ended up with a nasty rash (it was similar to a poison ivy reaction) from the prolonged contact that I had with the walnut juice. Just imagine what it would do to your insides after you mix it with alcohol and drink it.
"Alternative" medicine. lol.
For more on the black walnut:
tomclothier.hort.net/page21.html
I found this to be an incredibly good read that was written by a person with obvious experience. Most things on teh interwebz are obvious crap; speculative ramblings and anecdotal garbage written by intuition, rather than intellect, comprise the majority of web pages. This is not one of those. My Grandpa once referred to the internet as "a vast wasteland." I later found out that he had borrowed this clever phrase from Newton Minow, who, incidentally, was referring to television programming during his famous speech.
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