What is this Mystery Wood?

[Jim Becker]

Butternut is so soft that you could easily dent it deeply with your fingernail. Totally unsuited to pallets or similar. It can be totally beautiful for cabinet faces, though.

Yea, beautiful stuff. The house I lived the first six or so years of my life had extensive butternut woodwork including build-ins, as did the house next door. As an aside, I surprise myself actually remembering that. LOL

[Erik Loza]

High fiber diet?

We have a large pecan tree in the backyard. Our husky is obsessed with eating the fallen pecans. Shell and all, just crunches them right up. I can tell it's the season because when I do yard "cleanup", it's like little duraflame logs. No fiber issues for him.

Erik

[Brad Schmid]

We have a large pecan tree in the backyard. Our husky is obsessed with eating the fallen pecans. Shell and all, just crunches them right up. I can tell it's the season because when I do yard "cleanup", it's like little duraflame logs. No fiber issues for him.

Erik

Right on Erik, my hound is the same way, LoL
And the other thing about the pecans is that they're like bullets coming out of the lawnmower and they break windows!

Brad

[Erik Loza]

Right on Erik, my hound is the same way, LoL And the other thing about the pecans is that they're like bullets coming out of the lawnmower and they break windows!Brad

Brad, thankfully we don't have grass in the backyard but the squirrels chew up pecans in the tree and drop the half-eaten shells on our deck. I swear, it's like stepping on a Lego to land on one of those things with your bare feet.

Erik

[Ronald Blue]

Brad, thankfully we don't have grass in the backyard but the squirrels chew up pecans in the tree and drop the half-eaten shells on our deck. I swear, it's like stepping on a Lego to land on one of those things with your bare feet.

Erik

Erik are you sure it's not intentional? Are they up in the tree laughing at you hopping around on one foot in pain? Those squirrels are ornery critters.

[Brad Schmid]

Brad, thankfully we don't have grass in the backyard but the squirrels chew up pecans in the tree and drop the half-eaten shells on our deck. I swear, it's like stepping on a Lego to land on one of those things with your bare feet.

Erik

Since this conversation has already taken a left turn, I'll oblige... Now the real quandary is this... What's worse, stepping in bare feet on the "little duraflame logs" or the pecan shells?
Regardless, the dang squirrels are definitely up there laughing
Cheers

[johnny means]

Butternut is so soft that you could easily dent it deeply with your fingernail. Totally unsuited to pallets or similar. It can be totally beautiful for cabinet faces, though.

You are correct. I missed the comment about hardness. We use a fair amount of butternut because it's rustic appeal seems to fit our aesthetic. I despise working with the stuff. The furry grain, and splintery nature make it wholly unpleasant to process.

[Tom Bender]

So an important question is where was the 36" pipe sourced? Mexico, Canada, Indonesia?

[Erik Loza]

Since this conversation has already taken a left turn, I'll oblige... Now the real quandary is this... What's worse, stepping in bare feet on the "little duraflame logs" or the pecan shells?
Regardless, the dang squirrels are definitely up there laughing
Cheers

Brad, I will take literally ANYTHING over stepping on a lego with your bare feet. ANYTHING.

Erik