Justin Davies
aka "justinthetrees" aka "that tree guy" - I talk about trees and make stuff out of trees on the internet for a living.
- Tossed an oak burl on the lathe today and some neat stuff was sure hiding in there
- Back at it again with more tree flavored ice cream, this time the chocolate mold making process nearly broke me lol youtu.be/qUtCZwUbMic?...
- Had so much fun making the oak wood ice cream that I decided to turn this all into a full blown series youtu.be/xMwZb9U_kUs
- I love scrub jays so much. I can’t explain it but they always remind me of Bernie Sanders.
- Decided to mess around and try and test my longstanding belief that neat wood could make neat jewelry.
- A tremendous watch. Put perfectly into words the thing I’ve been mulling over for a real long time. Great great stuff.
- This is one of those videos that you could work on forever, but suddenly it felt very important to make it, so I finally did: www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8Pn...
- Had a tiny piece of redwood burl leftover from the state tree map and am very excited I finally found something cool to make with it. Stay tuned.
- This book dropping at what feels like the perfect time. Required reading for what’s ahead of us. (Also earlier this year I planted some of Miles’s ashes under a serviceberry tree so I’m even more of a big ol’ target than you’d already expect.)
- Made this from a log pulled off a trash pile, never gets old finding this kinda stuff hiding under a layer of weathered gray bark. Nature! It’s neat!
- Get to know a tree! Today it’s perhaps my favorite species of pine: the Limber Pine, Pinus flexilis. •They’re big and lumpy and gnarled •They can get live four 1,000+ years •Big, friendly cones! •They are, INDEED, limber (helps them survive at extreme altitudes and sway to the wind
- Couple famous limbers include “Twister” who lives in Alta, UT and is 1,700 years old and one at Whirlpool Point in Alberta, Canada estimated to be 3,000 years old (estimated)
- Like many other pines that live in harsh conditions, it has a symbiotic relationship with the Clark’s Nutcracker, who will bury caches of its seeds over winter and some forgotten ones will eventually become big ol’ Limber Pines someday
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View full threadthanks for attending my first get to know a tree thread! If you ever get to hang out with a Limber Pine I highly recommend it! Also, if you have Limber Pine pics to share with the class please do! Okay thanks bye!
- idk what to do here, if nothing else, here’s a really cool juniper log
