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Old 14-Mar-2005   #1
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Green Leaf Spring Dig in Austin
Central Texas appeared (until this morning) to be skipping Spring and heading straight to Summer so a fellow member/lurker "JMac" and I went on a dig. We had an unusually mild Summer and wet Spring and Fall, so we felt that any trees that we collected would stand a much better chance of survival than in ordinary years. After getting permission from the land owner we were able to hop the fence and begin collecting.

In Central Texas we don't have mountains... well, not real ones... but we do have cattle. And they do an amazing job at dwarfing cedar elms! If I had to choose between a full set of Masakuni tools or a hungry longhorn... let's say that it wouldn't be that hard of a choice! No mountains, no yamadori. Maybe "haradori", or even "ushidori"

It was a chilly 85 degrees with dusty winds gusting on the prairie at 25+ mph. Despite the conditions we were able to collect ten trees in all. Most of the trees are Cedar elms in the 24" range. We were able to collect two Texas persimmons (Diospyros texana) of varying sizes.

We could have collected more persimmons except for the limestone ("holey-rock") they were growing through. The roots find one of the dozens of perfectly round holes in the limestone and head south to China. They are virtually impossible to extricate from this rock, even with a wrecking bar.

It was a good day digging and I'm really looking forward to returning next year. I think we collected some interesting trees to play with. They no doubt have flaws, but I'll work on fixing those when the trees have regained their vigor.

I would like to thank "JMac" and Hawaiian Tropic, makers of Hawaiian Tropic Sunblock SPF 45... both for saving my hide.

Cheers,
Jim
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Old 14-Mar-2005   #2
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Cedar Elms
An example of some of the cedar elms that we collected (best pictures but not the best specimens). Most of these are in the 24" range. --Jim
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Old 14-Mar-2005   #3
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Back at the Goodtimes Van
The big haul, back at JMac's van.
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Good rustlin' cowboy!
Err, cow-trimmed-tree-boy!

I really like that first one --- gret potential imho

I need to head to the dairy farms!

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Old 15-Mar-2005   #5
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yes cows do a great job. here in australia there is no mountains, well not in my area anyway, so i have to fully rely on the cows to do the work.

heres and example of the aussie cows work
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Nut,

Our cheese tastes like cedar elm with a hint of ashe juniper. You won't get me to say what our pies taste like!

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Nut,

Our cheese tastes like cedar elm with a hint of ashe juniper. You won't get me to say what our pies taste like!

--Jim


But, once they're dry, our pies make great frisbees!!! (Yes, I was raised on a farm!)
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Oh wow Malhomme, They are some nice trees man....If I were you I'd be back there every weekend lol....I can see your going to have some fantastic trees out of those soon.

Good hunting man
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