Well me and the wife went to her Mom's today for New years. She lives in Hilister, Texas, bout an hour from us right in the heart of the Big Thicket! Since I started the bow addiction I find myself always looking for material wherever I go. I'm like a dog if someone holler's "SQUIRREL!"
So we are driving down this little back road and pass a persons property where they have done some clearing.
I looked over at the wife and told her we are stopping there on the way back home! Just driving by I could see a huge cedar pushed up in one of the piles! So on the way home we pulled into the property owners driveway and I asked him what he had planned for the piles of wood? He said he was gonna burn them! WHAT?
I explained that I make primitive bows and asked if he would mind if I gathered some of the pieces. He said to help myself that I could take all I wanted!! Well I was a happy man!! There must be 20 or more of these piles out there and it's mostly oak but I had to check them out. Here's what I got outta there with.
From left to right= mystery wood- 67" long, 3" diameter; Eastern Red Cedar= 70" long, 5-6" diameter; Dogwood- 10' long, 4" diameter; Crepe Myrtle- very straight 78" long, 4" diameter and a smaller one
56" long, 2 1/2" diameter.
end of cedar