How best to preserve a Bog Fir rootplate

[difflock]

see att image, just under 2.0m square, intention is to bolt it to a sturdy galvanised support and artfully mount the 3 digit house number across it as it sits presented.

If I can get it sufficiently preserved, it was dug out last spring/summer and left in the grass, and does not appear to have deteriorated any since.

I have only so far given a quick pressure was to establish how much was peat, and how much was actually rootplate.

 

Edited February 25, 2019 by difflock

[nepia]

That's fantastic.  Worth even more than a walnut tree on the bay ?

[Rough Hewn]

That's art.
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[difflock]

Absolutely non-artistic me, can actually see the makings of a running man in their, & very clearly being attacked by a winged dragon.

Edited February 25, 2019 by difflock

[difflock]

But how do I preserve it? , a shallow tray(which I have not got) and gallons of creosote spring to mind.

I suppose I could stand stand it under cover with the legs in a couple of cut-off 45 gall drums and periodically and liberally  douse with creosote, as it naturally dries

Nervous of letting it dry/get too dry though.

mth

[Rough Hewn]

Absolutely non-artistic me, can actually see the makings of a running man in their, & very clearly being attacked by a winged dragon.

I saw two dragons fighting over a figure.[emoji85]
How about several hundred quids worth of resin?
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[Ratman]

Total novice here..... what about “oiling” it somehow? Protection and moisture in one, so it can dry out slowly and as naturally as possible.
Hell of an interesting piece, where have you come across that?

[Macpherson]

Just a thought....depending what the root is from it may be full of natural ' creosote ' if it was a pine I think these roots were dug out at one time and used to produce pine tar....but very nice anyway.

[difflock]

Well seeing as the house was built in a field that had been cut-out peatbanks.

And there was always a soft spot on the new(ish) access road, which I tasked the diggerman to investigate before I laid any kerbs or paid for any asphalt.

And "voila"

The diggerman looked perplexed when I asked him to treat it with care and leave to one side.

[difflock]

14 minutes ago, Rough Hewn said:

I saw two dragons fighting over a figure.
How about several hundred quids worth of resin?

Yes indeed, I can see that too, 2 dragons tearing a man apart!