Old Growth Mill documents each storm-fallen tree it works with, and gives each one a tree number. The map is the reference view of that record: it ties a tree number to the coordinate where the tree was found.
What a pin is
A pin marks one documented tree. Each carries four things and nothing else:
- the tree number
- the species, marked provisional until the end grain and the acorns confirm it
- the date the tree was documented
- its condition when it was found
What a pin is not
A pin does not mean there is lumber. It means a tree was found, located and written down — nothing further. Over time these pins will include trees that were opened and turned out not to be worth milling, trees that have already gone, and trees still being worked through from the stump to the branches. The map does not distinguish between them, and that is deliberate: the moment it started marking what was available it would stop being a record and become a catalogue.
Nothing about a tree is settled until it is opened on the mill anyway. A log can measure right and read right from the outside and still show stain, shake or a hollow heart on the first cut. A pin is a record of a tree, not a promise about the wood inside it — see why availability isn't listed.
Live Tree Map
The map is new and pins are added as trees are documented, so expect it to be sparse for a while. How to read the tree map covers what you are looking at once there is something on it.
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