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This blog is the working record of individual trees. Each blog post follows one tree — from the day it is found and documented, through evaluation and cutting, to whatever it finally becomes. Blog posts are part of the documentation rather than announcements about it. Nothing here is an inventory listing, and a tree appearing here does not mean it is for sale.
How a blog post works
A blog post opens when a tree is documented — photographed where it lies, its position recorded on a handheld GPS, and its tree number assigned. The number starts here, in the blog post, and travels outward from it: onto the pin on the tree map, into any video, and into any conversation about that tree. The blog post is the record; everything else refers back to it.
As the tree is worked, the blog post follows it: bucking, getting it out of the swamp, what the first cut showed, what came off the mill and what it turned into. A tree that proves to be less than it looked from the outside is written up the same way as one that proves to be more.
That last part is not modesty. Nothing about a tree is settled until it is opened on the mill. One can stand right and measure right — straight, sound, big enough — and show stain, shake or a hollow heart on the first cut. Another can look unremarkable from the outside and come apart into the best wood of the year. Until the saw goes through it, everything anyone says about a log is an opinion about its bark. That is why this is a record kept as the work happens rather than a catalogue written in advance — see why documentation matters and what makes a tree worth milling.
What a blog post carries
- Photographs of the tree and the condition of the material
- The tree number, the six-digit reference used everywhere else on this site
- The recorded coordinate, so the blog post can be matched to its pin on the tree map
- A video link where there is one
Where this stands
The mill is not at the swamp yet, and no trees have been documented. There are no blogs here because there is nothing yet to write down. When the mill moves out there and the first tree is tagged, this is where it gets recorded — and it will be written as it happens rather than assembled afterwards. Availability is a separate question and is dealt with here.
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