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2 hours ago, marktownend said:

Andy, get that 3rd pic (as it's displayed on my laptop anyway, the one with the big sky) turned into a jigsaw puzzle. You'll thank me when you're old, grey and decrepit as it reminds you of the days when you could shift big oaks logs around on your own...

Good idea :)

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From the wise old interweb:

 

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Greenheart logs are reported to occasionally violently split apart upon sawing—sending pieces of the wood flying. As a result of this unusual characteristic, sawyers wrap chain around the sections of the log that have already been sawn.

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42 minutes ago, Mr. Ed said:

And how odd that Glasgow (or nearby) seems to be a nexus of the Greenheart trade:

 

GILMOURAITKEN.COM

We are one the UK's leading supplier of high-quality hardwoods. Find here our range of constructional timbers and...

 

 

 

Yeah, not that odd really in that the local company near to me in Glasgow that I alluded to earlier in this thread supplied Greenheart piles and made repairs to and built new piers all up the west coast Highlands and Islands.

 

The company ' Murrays ' probably closed down about 30 years ago around the same time that a large local timber merchant ' Robinson Dunn ' also closed it's doors.. they had a large autoclave timber treatment yard as a part of their business.

Back in the day the lumber was brought up the Forth and Clyde canal in barges from Bowling on the Clyde to Anniesland basin in Glasgow which was where the above timber yard was based.

 

Gilmour and Aitken is to this day a very large timber yard with an amazing stock of all sorts of lumber from  around the world... the last time I was there was to buy Siberian Larch but walking through the place it was hard to concentrate for being surrounded by exotic timbers seasoning in large stacks, not to mention stacks of full massive trunks waiting to be processed, cheers.

 

 

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8 hours ago, Mr. Ed said:

And how odd that Glasgow (or nearby) seems to be a nexus of the Greenheart trade:

 

GILMOURAITKEN.COM

We are one the UK's leading supplier of high-quality hardwoods. Find here our range of constructional timbers and...

 

 

Worth watching their short video about importing greenheart to the UK/Europe. Lengths available up to 24m, which is far too long for a container, so they charter an entire ship and fill the hold with milled greenheart!

 

Andrew

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All these posts about South American hardwoods reminded me of a couple I met about 35 years ago at Bunessan, SW Mull. My wife and I had just sailed around Skye in my self built 25 foot yacht. They were building a larger steel hulled yacht, and were planning to sail to S America with a chainsaw mill. Then earn enough to keep going by milling trees in the forests there. Often wondered how their dream progressed. Hope the boat isn’t still ashore, as sometimes happens with these projects.

 

Andrew

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