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Ancient Kauri, you say?
I wonder how many geetars you could make from a tree that size???
Pretty wild discovery under 26 feet of soil! https://www.newsweek.com/ancient-tre...J2Qmafl9g61pt0
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Not sure that I understood all of that, but that's a helluva big tree! Wonder how it got buried so deep?
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It's amazing that something as fundamentally biodegradable as a lump of wood is still there intact after 42,000 years. Makes you think all the junk we put in the ground and how long it'll be there :/
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I've got a couple of shovels, who wants to dig with me in my back yard? Thinking we might find some 42 year old pine or spruce.
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I would have to think the first 2-3 feet of it would be pretty soft.
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My thoughts exactly. Every time I drive by a Florida mountain,aka a landfill, I think of how we are decimating this environment for every future generation.
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Kauri does indeed make an unusual tonewood.
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I saw a story on archeologists who went "digging" in a municipal landfill. The most intact things they found were paper phonebooks. They were so dense that oxygen couldn't get in to the inner pages and promote decay.
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.. among the skeletons Dru?
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I wonder if I could commission a sinker-Kauri OM?
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Ancient Kauri, you say?
Certified ancient Kauri, “Whitebait swimming in waves” figure
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Fascinating.
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I'll watch, but thanks for the invite
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You always were a smart feller....
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