09-25-2006, 04:26 AM
I've seen some nice wood turnings done out of Christmas berry. If you have any larger sized trees, you could make a wood turner happy somewhere by saving chunks of the trunk to be cut into bowls and such later. It does have a nice brown colored wood, if you get some really nice sized ones, perhaps you can cut them into lumber? I have an uncle who has a house made out of walnut. Everything wooden - doors, window frames, siding, rafters, etc. are all solid black walnut. Everything else is fieldstone. He basically built it out of the materials on the site and he started out in a walnut grove. It is about a 1,800 square foot house, too, so it is bigger than a basic cabin. Perhaps you could do lava rock and Christmas berry? There are portable sawmills the folks around here use to cut up the eucalyptus robusta, koa, kou and other hardwoods, perhaps one of those would fit in your container?
Kurt Wilson