Log moss

Are there any mossers on here?

No, but you got me interested. What do you do with it?

Here in W.V. we dry it and and put it in bales. It sold for .85 cents per pound. My nine year old and I make quite a bit of cash this way. Plus anyday your in the woods is a good day.

Any idea what they do with it?

Iwas told flower shops use it.

so you just collect the moss off of trees and rocks? who is a buyer for it?

Our scrap yards buy it, as well as two local buyers.

Never heard of selling moss.

Collecting moss is a big thing in WV. When I grew up there, I remember seeing people out collecting it, or driving by seeing it hanging on peoples clothes lines. It's dried and used for floral arrangements and other various decor.

What does it sell for?

Here in SRWS (Socialist Republic of Washington State) we get $16 for a gunny sack full of spagum moss. The best stuff grows on Pacific big leaf maple trees. You can make several hundred dollars a day when you get in a good area. But be sure that you have the land owners permission, or at least stay out of Mason County, they're hard on "brush pickers" there.

ive heard of collecting it because it holds small gold particles and hence the reason we now have "miners moss".

Miners moss is used in the bottom of a sluice box. But, a quick way to prospect a creek to see if it warrants further exploration is to peel the moss off of boulders along the water's edge, put the moss is a 5 gallon bucket full of water and work all the sand out of the moss, then pan the sand. If gold is present in the creek there will usually be several "colours" in the pan. Don't get too exited at this stage of the game though. It can take thousands of colours to make an ounce. Panning moss is mainly just a preliminary exploration tool.
Mark

I live here in the south where we have Spanish moss that hang from trees. Usually Oak trees. Is anybody interested in Spanish moss?


~cleanheart

I heard a story while visiting my mother in FL several years ago..that Henry Ford once upon a time thought it would be great to use Spanish Moss for stuffing the seats of his early model cars. Turns out that it had some kind of parasites in it, & the new car owners were getting 'eat up' with bites. Ford ended up having to strip the seats out of quite a few cars and replace the filling.