On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 08:28:47 -0700 (PDT), Bob
wrote the following:

I read a while back about a company in Houston that specializes in
harvesting large unusual local trees for furnitures (tabletops, etc).
We have a Black Jack Oak that is over 100 years old that has died.
The trunk is about 13 feet in circumference.

Unfortunately, odds are 50:1 that it's rotted inside.

Good luck, though. Cross _all_ your appendages, Bob.

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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness;
poverty and wealth have both failed.
-- Kin Hubbard