another thing you never knew about ungeheuer...

[the_Journeyman]

Cool stuff in here Ung!  Pretty blooms and that flooring is pretty too!  We don't have many choices around here.  Oak is best, but slow.  Maple is faster but not as hot.  Locust is slow and very hard but burns very hot like Hickory.  None of them have pretty blooms, but they do turn nice colors in October.

JM

[Randimus Maximus]

Very cool.

Back home at my parents place in Michigan, we had a sugar maple that created a bunch of saplings every year.  I remember transplanting a number of them and now my parents have many more mature trees on their property.

[abby normal]

Got any resident koala?

[Stella]

LOVE!!!!   Thanks for sharing Ung.   

You and my pop could talk trees for hours.  He's planted thousands.



May not want to post too many pics of the place
at the risk of being inundated with (un)invited visitors.   

[cokey]

awesome..  you do anything with the tress besides firewood, lumber and a great view?

[DesmoDiva]

What more do you need to do?

[geoffduc]

Fantastic pics Steve...

Babs loves the blooms and the floor's awesome...

Geoff...

[ungeheuer]

Beautiful stuff!  I am thinking about getting a Logosol mill or maybe just an Alaska Mill attachment for making some lumber.  I have a 10 acre woodlot that I cut firewood out of but there are some real nice red and white oaks down in there that are too nice for firewood.  We had a bad windstorm several years ago and I lost 4 of my 9 black walnut trees along with three large spruce trees from the yard.  I had a guy come in with a woodmizer bandsaw rig and knock it all into lumber.  Had the walnut and some white oak kiln dried so I have a couple thousand board feet of nice lumber.  One of my remaining black walnuts is about 4' on the butt so when that goes, there will be a pile of lumber.  I like working in the woods.

Ten acres is a nice woodlot    I dont know much about European or American tree species... 'course I know what Oak is... and I do know just how beautiful Black Walnut timber can be .  Very nice.  Yeah I like being out amongst our trees too but mostly I'm only making firewood.

Got any resident koala?

Yup.  That's the most rewarding part.

This bloke in the back yard recently...


And this silly bugger up a Japanese Maple in the front yard (guess he was sampling some foreign cuisine  )..

awesome..  you do anything with the tress besides firewood, lumber and a great view?

We make homes for Koalas  

You and my pop could talk trees for hours.  He's planted thousands.

May not want to post too many pics of the place
at the risk of being inundated with (un)invited visitors.  

When we planted all that Koala fodder, we expected to be inundated with visitors.  Every one gets their own tree to sleep in  

Fantastic pics Steve...

Thanks for all the compliments people   

Just wanted to share my native Aussie tree nerdiness with ya.

[koko64]

That second koala surely posed for that pic!
Beautiful back yard! Now I'm gonna have to ride down there soon.

[ungeheuer]

That second koala surely posed for that pic!
Beautiful back yard! Now I'm gonna have to ride down there soon.

I'm working from home today mate.  Coffee is ready 

[kopfjäger]

I read this about the Koala.


"Aside from chlamydia, koalas are also contracting leukemia and lymphoma at alarming rates, largely due to a “koala retrovirus” that is somewhat similar to the HIV virus that strikes humans."

[ungeheuer]

I read this about the Koala.


"Aside from chlamydia, koalas are also contracting leukemia and lymphoma at alarming rates, largely due to a “koala retrovirus” that is somewhat similar to the HIV virus that strikes humans."

Up north Koalas are getting sick.  To date the Victorian population down here in the far south remain largely healthy.  Loss of habitat is the Koala's greatest threat.

[the_Journeyman]

And this silly bugger up a Japanese Maple in the front yard (guess he was sampling some foreign cuisine  )..

Koala version of Sushi?

JM

[abby normal]

Beauty.  My wife loves those things.  She got to
Hold one at a small zoo in kuranda.

[koko64]

I'm working from home today mate.  Coffee is ready 

I'm working and freezing with this cool change
I'll call and let you know.