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Ideas for hollow logs
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10/19/23 07:44 AM
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larrywaugh
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I recently had to take down a huge maple tree in my yard. It had several big hollow limbs on it plus the main trunk is hollow. I am looking for ideas on something cool I can make out of them. The main trunk is 16 ft 3 inches in circumference. I also thought about trying to sell them but don't know if there is a market for something like that.
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Re: Ideas for hollow logs
[Re: larrywaugh]
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10/19/23 07:52 AM
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Re: Ideas for hollow logs
[Re: larrywaugh]
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10/19/23 07:57 AM
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I've seen where taxidermists will mount a coon head looking out of a chunk of hollow log. Looks pretty neat.
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Re: Ideas for hollow logs
[Re: larrywaugh]
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10/19/23 08:09 AM
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They would be good for taxidermy. If you could cut slices out of the trunk it would make cool tables but not sure how to do that.
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Re: Ideas for hollow logs
[Re: larrywaugh]
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10/19/23 09:03 AM
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The single best bobcat set I ever had was a hollow log in a woodpile that someone had apparently cut but not loaded. It was along a small creek and the first year a partner and I netted 7, 6 the 2nd year. The landowner cleared a bunch of ground the 3rd year but I was always tempted to make some wood piles with a hollow chunk on the bottom and see what happened.
Not overly artistic I know but I have a trappers brain!
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Re: Ideas for hollow logs
[Re: larrywaugh]
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10/19/23 09:49 AM
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Tables !! Cut them stand them up put butcher block top or glass. Bark on or off then stain . 3 coat polyurathene sell like hot cakes...
Last edited by jbyrd63; 10/19/23 09:51 AM.
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Re: Ideas for hollow logs
[Re: larrywaugh]
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10/19/23 10:10 AM
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they used to sell them at one of the state parks for fires , get a jet of flame up the middle , now it seems all the wood is cut and wrapped kiln dried not from the park any longer
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Re: Ideas for hollow logs
[Re: larrywaugh]
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10/19/23 10:19 AM
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Cat cubbies those are tough for a cat to pass up.
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Re: Ideas for hollow logs
[Re: larrywaugh]
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10/19/23 10:33 AM
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How could a person slice that trunk fairly evenly. I agree they would make great cat cubbies although it would be a pain to haul around.
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Re: Ideas for hollow logs
[Re: larrywaugh]
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10/19/23 10:39 AM
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Air bandb
City wackjobs are always looking for silly new adventures
Leave the stump also and rent it out as the tree house
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Re: Ideas for hollow logs
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10/19/23 10:40 AM
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I've got four geranium planters on my front deck. I think it was about four years before the bark started to separate. Still functional and just as much character
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Re: Ideas for hollow logs
[Re: larrywaugh]
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10/19/23 12:05 PM
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Put them out and pre-bait a couple weeks for fisher. Come opening day, he'll be there ! Tip from PA trapper friend of mine 
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Re: Ideas for hollow logs
[Re: larrywaugh]
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10/19/23 12:08 PM
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How could a person slice that trunk fairly evenly. I agree they would make great cat cubbies although it would be a pain to haul around. Cut into smaller sections drop off along a known travel area roll off the back of a truck a 1 time deal.
Was born in a Big City Will die in the Country OK with that!
Jerry Herbst
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Re: Ideas for hollow logs
[Re: Kevin Colpetzer]
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10/19/23 12:18 PM
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Like to stand them up in a bed of coals in the fire pit. Nice to sit back with a cooler of beer and watch the show
Me too.
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