There is no stock list on this site, no prices, and no "available now". That is deliberate, and it is worth explaining rather than leaving people to wonder what is being hidden.
Nothing Is Settled Until the Log Is Opened
A log can measure right, read right from the outside, and still show stain, shake, a hollow heart or a fence wire grown six inches deep on the first cut. That is not unusual in an old tree — it is normal, and none of it is visible until the saw is in it.
So anything I posted as available would be a guess about the inside of a log. If I guessed wrong, somebody would have made plans on it. I would rather say nothing than say something I cannot stand behind.
A Documented Tree Is Not an Item for Sale
Every tree I work with gets a tree number and a pin on the tree map. Neither one means there is lumber. It means a tree was found, located and written down — nothing further.
That distinction is the whole reason the map does not mark anything as sold or available. One "sold" pin would imply every other pin is for sale, and the map would quietly turn into a catalogue of things I have not cut yet. In time those pins will include trees that opened badly and were not worth milling, trees already gone, and trees still being worked through from the stump to the branches. The map does not distinguish between them on purpose.
The Timing Is Not Mine to Set
The swamp floods and stays under water for months at a stretch. What governs when a tree can be reached is water level and ground that nothing has ever driven across — not a schedule I can publish. A tree might be documented one month and moved a season later.
And the timber is not going anywhere. Wood that stays submerged does not rot, so there is no clock running on these logs the way there would be on a normal windfall. That is exactly why I can afford to take my time, and why a date would be invented rather than real.
What to Do Instead
Ask. If something on the blog or the map interests you, quote the tree number and say what you are trying to build — dimensions, and how much flexibility you have about what a particular tree turns out to yield. I will tell you what stage that tree is at, what has actually been observed about it, and what is realistic. If the answer is "nothing yet", that is what you will get.
Get in touch. What comes off a tree in the first place is on the frugal milling page, and what makes a tree worth milling covers what I am looking at when I decide.
Contact
Old Growth Mill
Axson, GA 31624
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (912) 310-0650
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