Recycling Christmas Trees

KevinH writes:


For the past 6 years my family has had a Christmas tradition of cutting 
a tree from a group of 75 trees that I planted 13 years ago.  I've prunned 
about 2 dozen of them to keep them in line for fitting in my house.   Well, 
3 years ago, we cut a tree that was about 9 feet tall, with the intention of 
removing the bottom foot or so in order to get it in my home.  

Well, call me Charlie Brown, because the bottom foot had a major limb 
that ran up the center of the tree and when I removed it , the tree lost about 
1/3 of its limbs.  Of course, my daughter (11) was upset at both cutting a 
live tree in the first place, along with the fact that this was now a real 
Charlie Brown Christmas tree.  So, we hauled it in the house, put the 
good side out, and enjoyed the Holiday.

Wanting to keep this memory, and having just purchased a Jet Lathe for my 
son (8), I cut the bottom foot or so of the tree off and let it sit in the shop for 
a year with varnish on the end grain.  Last Christmas I turned a real cute 
gobblet from this tree stump and gave it to my family from the "Tree of 97".

It went over so well, that I've made it a tradition and keep the bottom foot of 
every tree and make a wood artifact to remember it by.

Does anyone in the groop recycle Christmas trees?

KevinHancock





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