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dug out canoe

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jturner:
Will cottonwood work for a dugout canoe? I have a huge one in our drainage ditch that keeps pluggin things up but i dont have alot of use for it once i cut it down. And ive always wanted a dugout

square shooter:
From Square Shooter. Sure hope you try a small one, from a branch, maybe 3' or so long.
I've never made one, but a model would give a lotta info to us all. Is there anything on
the 'net about em? The same oils that seal a bow wood seal a dugout, seems. I know
they made em real thin, like about 3/8". It must be a big diameter trunk you have. Think
what a 2 × 4 will do. Its soft wood. Seems a model of the same scale thickness wood not 
be quite the same scale strength, tho. 

jturner:
Its bout 3.5 feet across at 20 feet tall it has to go the roots catch debri in the spring and plug up the ditch i want to cut it down with an axe. Reminds me of where the red fern grows.

zeNBowyer:
Cottonwood  is  a  traditional  wood for  dugouts

jturner:
Guess im gonna have to sharpen up my axe and figure out how to post pics. I just need some help on how to go about this. I want to burn it out and use hand tools. No chainsaw. How long should i make it? How do i keep track of my thickness without burnin through?

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