Paipo of the day from salvaged paulownia

This one is 44 inches long by an inch thick, made from salvaged paulownia: The salvage operation can be seen on this video, we had two days to salvage as much paulownia as we could from this Papamoa plantation and orchard which had been bulldozed to make way for a so called 'development' ( meaning that the 'developers' try their best to ruin the planet by paving it and covering it with buildings. . . no trees allowed )We got about 10% of the wood before they burnt the rest