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Question: What is a tree?
  Answer: A tree is a perennial plant that has a single woody trunk, with branches and leaves. Trees tend to grow strong and tall. - 181

Question: What is wood?
  Answer: Wood is the hard, fibrous part of trees that grows beneath the bark. - 234

Question: Where does wood come from?
  Answer: Wood is grown by trees in the forest. The mature trees are cut down to make timber. The timber is cut, sawed, or split into lumber, planks, and boards of standard lengths. The wood is then dried, and sold for use as building material, fuel, and paper pulp. - 235


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  Words of Wisdom  

And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hand, and all their earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.   Genesis 35:4 


But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried beneath Bethel under an oak: and the name of it was called Allonbachuth.   Genesis 35:8 


And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and took a great stone, and set it up there under an oak, that was by the sanctuary of the LORD.   Joshua 24:26 


And there came an angel of the LORD, and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.   Judges 6:11 


And Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and unleavened cakes of an ephah of flour: the flesh he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out unto him under the oak, and presented it.   Judges 6:19 


And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that was under him went away.
And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanged in an oak.   2 Samuel 18:9, 10 


Then said Joab, I may not tarry thus with thee. And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak.   2 Samuel 18:14 


And went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak: and he said unto him, Art thou the man of God that camest from Judah? And he said, I am.   1 Kings 13:14 


They arose, all the valiant men, and took away the body of Saul, and the bodies of his sons, and brought them to Jabesh, and buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.   1 Chronicles 10:12 


For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.   Isaiah 1:30 


But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.   Isaiah 6:13 


He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the cypress and the oak, which he strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the forest: he planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it.   Isaiah 44:14 


Then shall ye know that I am the LORD, when their slain men shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they did offer sweet savour to all their idols.   Ezekiel 6:13 



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The tree grinder starts at the top of the tree and grinds it up in about 30 seconds. - John Smith - 17




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