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12/26/09, 08:49 PM
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What to do with drift wood?
Several creeks around here where I live including the one that is about a 500 ft. outside my back door. When you walk up and down these creeks or drive over a bridge and look up and down these creeks, you see drift wood laying everywhere. They make great campfire wood, especially the sycamore limbs. But wondering why they couldn't be harvested and used for something profitable. Such as wood pellets or charcoal?
Looks like there would be a demand for them somehow. You see on t.v. how the natives are clear cutting the congo forrest so they can have charcoal or looks like the wood pellet companies would buy up some to make pellets out of.
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12/26/09, 08:58 PM
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Only specific trees make good charcoal. In the Amazon it is the one tree that the Red/green macaws nest in (figures!).
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12/26/09, 09:23 PM
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We hauled a piece home that my daughter found.
It was sculpture all by itself!
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12/26/09, 09:43 PM
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^^ Ditto what stormwalker said! ^^
I'd be in hog-wild heaven ... the decorating possibilities are endless.
Send me some.
Please!
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12/26/09, 10:02 PM
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Cheyenne Ok. Been there turkey hunting. Good hunting and windy!
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12/26/09, 10:08 PM
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yes sir, sure is!!
Every time we've been out to the land to visit, we've always stirred up large flocks of wild turkey!!
(are they called flocks?)
I honestly am having a very hard time waiting to get out there.
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12/26/09, 10:21 PM
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At my last job I ordered (at my boss's request) three old fence posts that were put on a stand and turned into artwork. Essentially old weathered wood. You don't want to know how much they spent.
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12/26/09, 11:29 PM
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Would say the art folks are the ones to market it to . Us loggers would go broke and starve to death if you gave it to us 
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12/27/09, 12:28 AM
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I don't know about inland driftwood but the product labeled "Driftwood" in the old chemistry sets provided a most wonderful violet dye. At least that is the color I remember it to produce.
Perhaps you could test some and sell it to those that spin and dye their own yarn if it works.
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12/27/09, 12:49 AM
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Do you have a large landscaping outlet near you. If so, pull out some of the decorative pieces, such as small stumps, and approach them about possible purchase.
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12/27/09, 01:16 AM
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Start a business making and selling driftwood tables and lamps. Check around online for ideas and pricing. You do have a potential goldmine there.
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12/27/09, 06:41 AM
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Quote:
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Start a business making and selling driftwood tables and lamps. Check around online for ideas and pricing. You do have a potential goldmine there.
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Great idea. I have a lamp made of cedar. It's simple but draws a lot of comments.
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Driftwood from the Ms. river
Dh has brought me several big pieces, put them in flowerbeds. The smallest piece has a perfect little basin shape in the middle. I put a piece of fake ivy along the length,stuck a real birdsnest in the basin, put a fake sitting bird in the nest and hung on the wall. I love it...it's something simple and different.
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I'd check with...someone... Here in Wa state can't do that. Some of those logs and jams are fish habitat. Someone moved a log jam on a creek up north and got a big fine. I'd check just to be sure.
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Taxadermist will buy all you get 100.00$ a truck load here.Better pieces put up front and sell seperate.About one truck load each year for each bussiness.We got ours from Table Rock Lake after the draw down each winter
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As I don't live all that far from the Pacific Ocean I use it with Birdhouses and planters. Its pretty and fun to work with. People seem to like the look and so do the birds. LOL
I can send you a couple of simple project photos if you email me.
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12/27/09, 09:54 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by QuiltingLady2
I'd check with...someone... Here in Wa state can't do that. Some of those logs and jams are fish habitat. Someone moved a log jam on a creek up north and got a big fine. I'd check just to be sure.
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Don't have to worry about that here yet. We're not civilized yet here n Okie country.
Little Quacker and others, I've seen projects made out of drift woods and they are neat. I'm just not very artistic. I would be better off selling it to someone who does it theirselves. Just don't know anyone around that does it.
I have the recycle and reuse mind. When I see an abundant of things laying around and not being used, I always wonder what a person could do with it or how they could make some money off of it.
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My son just refurbished my fish tank with some red oak roots from a tree that went down in the ice storm last year, made it look so cool. I also use it in the garden for trellis and just to look good. Ask around at some local flea markets, someone will want to use it.
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There are driftwood natural "art" pieces on either side of the entry of my in-laws high end custom home!
The most lucrative items made from driftwood locally were "fountains." I was amazed how much the guy sold them for!
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