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I still want this wood with holes in....Have the cash ready to pay a tenner a piece collected,minimum 5 within 40 miles of Burnley...also I will pay for any logs/arb waste you have to add money in ya pocket if you can deliver,I would pay say £200 for 10 pieces and a few ton of soft wood arb waste.

 

Or...I will build you a fairy house from a donated log in return for 10 more logs(with holes in).

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On 13/10/2018 at 08:19, woodlovergonetofbasthatshowitsdonenowadays:( said:

 In my fire wood log piles I have only ever had this one piece in 5 years or so of wood gathering.

I think you've hit the nail on the head there. I had this idea of mounting clocks in natural holes and faced a similar raw-material supply problem. That's despite volunteering with the local wildlife trust and being able to access wood from a National Trust place nearby, so I'd expect to come across gnarly stuff which I could cut as I wanted.

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You could grow your own holey logs but it could take a while. If you start now, your prosperous old age will be assured. Select nice trees and flush cut strategically, or if you want a quicker return, and don't mind smaller holes, collar prune the branches and wait 5 years or so for the wound to start to close. When a nice round lip of new wood has formed, fell or cut off that section of stem, then bore out the center and drill out the dead wood in the healing branch stumps (carefully) so you'll end up with man made holes that look natural. You can then place marbles, windows, glass eyes or whatever else in the holes.

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15 hours ago, Beardie said:

I think you've hit the nail on the head there. I had this idea of mounting clocks in natural holes and faced a similar raw-material supply problem. That's despite volunteering with the local wildlife trust and being able to access wood from a National Trust place nearby, so I'd expect to come across gnarly stuff which I could cut as I wanted.

Thanks for the info...They do seem rare-ish,saw a good few on trees on a recent walk but all really big old trees, young trees or of the thickness I would like did not seem to have many at all.

and I suppose they must be rare as I am offering close to a Grand a Ton ,at a tenner a pop... and still nothing really offered.

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5 hours ago, Haironyourchest said:

You could grow your own holey logs but it could take a while. If you start now, your prosperous old age will be assured. Select nice trees and flush cut strategically, or if you want a quicker return, and don't mind smaller holes, collar prune the branches and wait 5 years or so for the wound to start to close. When a nice round lip of new wood has formed, fell or cut off that section of stem, then bore out the center and drill out the dead wood in the healing branch stumps (carefully) so you'll end up with man made holes that look natural. You can then place marbles, windows, glass eyes or whatever else in the holes.

I don't have the land,let alone time...Maybe I should look further afield and go to the dreaded European land that has all this kiln dryed stash they keep sending here... before the walls start going up of course.

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