Appearances can be deceptive...!

**robutacion** · 21st January 2009, 04:22 PM

Hi everyone,

With the hot summer in full swing (up here...!), I have been using the little energy I have been having lately, to cut all the tall & thick grass on the timber storage paddock (about 4 acres) and clean/remove all the excess fuel (cut grass, twigs, branches, etc.,) about. The last thing I need/want is a cigarette thrown from the road side, or anything capable to start a fire, turning most of my timber stock into ashes

Anyway, while cleaning the paddock I found "something" that I've picked-up from another place where I did cut and collect some timber a few months ago. It nearly got me again when I saw it through the grass, thinking...! cattle, here?

. I then realise that the "item" was familiar to me so once again I picked it up but, this time I put it in the waggon.

The reason why I got "it" in the first place, was with the intentions to try to turn "it" and see how it would go..!

I didn't put much though into "it" since as I though that I had lost "it" but, now that I found "it" again, I'm going to give "it" a go...!

I know, there are lots of "it" (s) in this post, as I would prefer for you to tell me, what you thing "that thing" is! I'm ain't going to tell until I get some guesses. I'm not sure if this is going to be much of a clue or help to anyone but, once someone said, "if it walks like a duck and sounds like one, the chances are, it is a duck...!"

I don't think is green either, is very light and looks very well dried (cooked) to me...!

What should I try to turn out of it?

Don't worry, all possibilities considered...!

Cheers

RBTCO

**Rum Pig** · 21st January 2009, 04:52 PM

My guess is the base of a coconut palm

It is upside down

**ElizaLeahy** · 21st January 2009, 05:58 PM

dried elephant foot...

Hollow it out and you have an umbrella stand!

**Sawdust Maker** · 21st January 2009, 07:42 PM

petrified cow pat

**Brendan1152** · 21st January 2009, 07:48 PM

Looks like a dried fungus to me.

**texx** · 21st January 2009, 07:54 PM

3000 year old big mac

**RETIRED** · 21st January 2009, 08:29 PM

Originally Posted by texx

3000 year old big mac

Nope. With the preservatives it would still look fresh.

**Mollywood** · 21st January 2009, 08:46 PM

Is it a branch bark collar?
With the stubb of a broken branch still attached?

**joe greiner** · 21st January 2009, 11:02 PM

Before I got to the pictures, I knew what it was.

Called a "meadow muffin" in farm country. In Oklahoma or Texas, or someplace like that, they hold tossing contests, like Frisbee, with two tosses allowed. There was proposed a requirement to lick your thumb between tosses, but I don't think it was instituted.

You could pretend it's a burl, I suppose.

Cheers,
Joe

**corbs** · 22nd January 2009, 06:41 AM

I think I know what it is.... whatever you do, don't step on it

(I really don't know what it is

)

**petersemple** · 22nd January 2009, 11:13 AM

If it's what I think it is, I would be making sure my dust control was VERY good if I was going to turn it. I would not be surprised if there's still a decent load of bacteria in it.

Peter

**OGYT** · 22nd January 2009, 12:38 PM

It's a poopiewaffle!! My grandson's been around cows before.

**Ed Reiss** · 22nd January 2009, 01:09 PM

It's an advance scout for an alien invasion!!

**robutacion** · 22nd January 2009, 02:29 PM

Hi Ladies and Gents,

Some damn "interesting" guesses people, some a little more "smelly" than others but, only one person is close to the fact!.

Appart from what can happen when I actually put it in the lathe, and that is going to be very interesting

, is no reason why we can't have a little fun identifying the object

I had another couple of pics but they didn't turn out very good, appart from this one, which shows how the "object" looks like on the bottom/base/underneath/underside. This alone should be enough to eliminate some mentioned possibilities, and at the same time put people in the right track for the correct answer.

Sorry to all the very "inpatient" people out there, patience is indeed a virtue, and to become a woodturner, this is a "must" to learn and perfect, (unless you don't do green turnings)

! I'm I right...?

Cheers

RBTCO

**ElizaLeahy** · 22nd January 2009, 02:42 PM

So probably not an elephants foot...

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