Two years ago I spent a month in Montana teaching a private course in lutherie (guitar making). My host was a seasoned forester who had promised me a chance to cut down a dead standing, ancient Engleman/Sitka tree--a extremely rare opportunity to harvest our own master-grade wood. We traveled into unknown parts somewhere beyond Stevensville, back on logging roads that he knew from his former occupation. It was a long trek up into the hinterlands to a private plot of land where he had permission to cut. We tramped deep into the woods, our backpacks loaded with a chain saw, axe, mauls and wedges, over a vast dead fall in a drought-plagued swamp, scouting for that one tree he had spotted about a year before; and we found it using the GPS on his phone! It was 38" in diameter, a monster--only a professional could have dropped that tree without heavy equipment. We split one huge chunk and lugged the pieces back to the car for the trip home. On the return trip, we found this rural rental and stopped long enough for me to take a picture.
Last edited by barefootdesigns; 05-19-2018 at 01:26 PM.
Reason: Trying to attach photo failed time and again--finally worked!