The Way They Built the Pyramids
What! No forklift? No backhoe? Just two scrawny guys with a flatbed trailer, a couple of oak planks, some chain, a metal tamp and two peavy sticks? No way you're going to get those 600 pound sections of walnut UP onto that trailer! (Remember when it was cut?)
And yet, they did. As Bill said, "if they could make the Pyramids by hand, well, we can get this walnut outta here just fine."
Soon, Bill will plank this into a solid table, Y-shaped, to include the crotch most people would consider trash. I'm hoping to be there to get the process on film.
Comments
Hello Fred,
Wow, seeing the black walnut tree picture brings back memories. My Dad cut down a dying black walnut tree off of my grandmother's property and made it into a table many years ago. I'll try and send you a snapshot of it. Thanks for evoking that memory!
Stanley
Posted by: Stanley | March 23, 2005 8:40 AM
having carefully tended black walnut saplings
decades ago now
on my isolated hilltop in Wisconsin
trimming them so they would grow tall and straight
and returning there years later
when the land was no longer mine
(though it always will be my place
on the face of the earth)
to see O how they had grown
I am green with envy
though the good kind - happy for you
that you will have
what I'm sure will be
a splendiferous table
Posted by: suzanne | March 23, 2005 9:22 AM
Oh, yeah -- pictures, pictures, pictures. I definitely want to see the planking part.
Posted by: Scott Chaffin | March 23, 2005 9:23 AM