On Thu, 7 Mar 2013 10:40:35 -0600, basilisk <[email protected]>
wrote:
>This has promise, wonder when we will see some of it on the market?
>
>
>http://blog.al.com/wire/2013/03/ancient_underwater_forest_off.html#incart_river_default
>
>basilisk
Cool story, thanks.
Similar story here:
http://www.ancientwood.com/
Ancient Kauri (30K - 50K yrs old). I've worked a few small boards of
this stuff. Very tight grained, takes an amazing polishing to 600
grit or more.
Also, the Mondavi Center at UC Davis has a lot of it. Worth the stop
if you're driving by.
-Zz
On Thursday, March 7, 2013 10:40:35 AM UTC-6, basilisk wrote:
> This has promise, wonder when we will see some of it on the market? http:=
//blog.al.com/wire/2013/03/ancient_underwater_forest_off.html#incart_river_=
default basilisk
Too bad there weren't more pics of the big stuff, logs, but there probably =
weren't any logs, per se. I like reading reports as this. =20
Promise of use? Kind of reminds me of the goings on, not long ago, of Mara=
thon Oil's expansion of their refinery in Caryville, La. During high wate=
r, 1800s, huge cypress were cut at the water's surface, leaving 15' - 20' o=
f the trunk under water. Over time, silt covered those trunks. During the=
Marathon refinery construction, those old trunks were discovered. Report =
is only one trunk was salvaged and brought to one of the nearby plantations=
for display. Report was, salvaging other trunks would have cut into Marat=
hon's time table for completing the construction, so no further salvaging e=
fforts were made.=20
These reports came from my nephew, a contractor on that job, who said he do=
zed many of the stumps/logs off to the side. Said he was amazed with the d=
iscovery. =20
What a waste!
Sonny
On Thu, 07 Mar 2013 17:58:17 -0800, Zz Yzx wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Mar 2013 10:40:35 -0600, basilisk <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>>This has promise, wonder when we will see some of it on the market?
>>
>>
>>http://blog.al.com/wire/2013/03/
ancient_underwater_forest_off.html#incart_river_default
>>
>>basilisk
>
> Cool story, thanks.
>
> Similar story here:
>
> http://www.ancientwood.com/
>
> Ancient Kauri (30K - 50K yrs old). I've worked a few small boards of
> this stuff. Very tight grained, takes an amazing polishing to 600 grit
> or more.
>
> Also, the Mondavi Center at UC Davis has a lot of it. Worth the stop if
> you're driving by.
>
> -Zz
I'd love to have a slab of the ancient Kauri, beautiful stuff, it fetches
a good price.
basilisk
On 3/7/2013 10:40 AM, basilisk wrote:
> This has promise, wonder when we will see some of it on the market?
> http://blog.al.com/wire/2013/03/ancient_underwater_forest_off.html#incart_river_default
Cool.
Next thing you here, Al Gore, and his UN cronies, will be angling to
make some bucks off this:
"Scientists studying both ancient and modern day shorelines have
documented that Louisiana is sinking. The research also shows that
Alabama and a portion of the Texas shoreline have risen."
I'm wondering it is really ten miles offshore ... how convenient that is
within the 12 mile limit. ;)
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On 3/7/2013 8:40 AM, basilisk wrote:
> This has promise, wonder when we will see some of it on the market?
>
>
> http://blog.al.com/wire/2013/03/ancient_underwater_forest_off.html#incart_river_default
>
> basilisk
>
These guys have been getting old cypress for several years now. They
also gather up the yellow pine....
http://www.oldgrowthriverwood.com/gallery.html
http://www.flickr.com/photos/oldgrowthriverwood/7803259816/
On Thu, 7 Mar 2013 10:44:07 -0800 (PST), Sonny wrote:
> On Thursday, March 7, 2013 10:40:35 AM UTC-6, basilisk wrote:
>> This has promise, wonder when we will see some of it on the market? http://blog.al.com/wire/2013/03/ancient_underwater_forest_off.html#incart_river_default basilisk
>
> Too bad there weren't more pics of the big stuff, logs, but there probably weren't any logs, per se. I like reading reports as this.
>
> Promise of use? Kind of reminds me of the goings on, not long ago, of Marathon Oil's expansion of their refinery in Caryville, La. During high water, 1800s, huge cypress were cut at the water's surface, leaving 15' - 20' of the trunk under water. Over time, silt covered those trunks. During the Marathon refinery construction, those old trunks were discovered. Report is only one trunk was salvaged and brought to one of the nearby plantations for display. Report was, salvaging other trunks would have cut into Marathon's time table for completing the construction, so no further salvaging efforts were made.
>
> These reports came from my nephew, a contractor on that job, who said he dozed many of the stumps/logs off to the side. Said he was amazed with the discovery.
>
> What a waste!
>
> Sonny
Indeed, think what a table could made of a slab of that.
basilisk
On Thu, 07 Mar 2013 12:59:00 -0600, Swingman wrote:
> On 3/7/2013 10:40 AM, basilisk wrote:
>
>> This has promise, wonder when we will see some of it on the market?
>
>> http://blog.al.com/wire/2013/03/ancient_underwater_forest_off.html#incart_river_default
>
>
> Cool.
>
> Next thing you here, Al Gore, and his UN cronies, will be angling to
> make some bucks off this:
>
> "Scientists studying both ancient and modern day shorelines have
> documented that Louisiana is sinking. The research also shows that
> Alabama and a portion of the Texas shoreline have risen."
>
> I'm wondering it is really ten miles offshore ... how convenient that is
> within the 12 mile limit. ;)
No doubt the morass of regulations would prevent any kind of meaningful
salvage.
basilisk