Originally Posted by
canebreaker
During winter draw down I found an old condo of 20 Christmas trees. The person that placed them dated the cinder blocks, 6 years old. The trunk and short thick limbs were all that was left. I added 15 Christmas trees and oak stakes to the condo.
A friend has worked the same 8 tree trunks in the lake bed for the last 20 years. Adds to the ring around it with Christmas trees and stake buckets.
We would find a mill set up in the woods on someone's farm. Get a truckload of slabs for free. Not very much red wood on a cedar slab. Set up the table saw and remove as much white wood as we could for stakes. Now the mills want to charge you for the scrap wood.