I find some cool stuff while looking at tracts of timber. This is a stand of huge slash and long leaf in Lauren’s County that has been a #workingforest for several hundred years. A lot of people would say this is “virgin” timber however as you can see in the pics there are tree stumps that have been cut with axes and cross cut saws scattered throughout the stand.
These were turpentined for navel stores probably in the late 1800’s and early 1900. Then the stand was thinned and continued to produce revenue for the landowner.
If this stand of timber could talk it would tell you a story of a much different “hard working” America than what we live in today.
Notice the “v” around the bottom of the stump this is where it was cut with an axe and a spring board was probably placed to give better leverage with the cross cut saw.
Old scrap marks on the original “cat face” of the tree.
Who knows what this is and why it’s still standing and didn’t decay?
Notice the scares on the bottoms of these giant pines. This is where the tree has healed and grown around the old turpentine cat faces.
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