For sale - Sycamore - very large - green

[Newman Maintenance]

53 minutes ago, swinny said:

It's been on the deck in the customers garden / land for 2-2.5 months and you've not moved it yet? :Eek:

It's an estate and the customer is all good but thanks for your concern

 

A previous branch that came down before I'd been doing any work had been sat for a year!

[Newman Maintenance]

53 minutes ago, swinny said:

It's been on the deck in the customers garden / land for 2-2.5 months and you've not moved it yet? :Eek:

It's an estate and the customer is all good but thanks for your concern

 

A previous branch that came down before I'd been doing any work had been sat for a year!

[muttley9050]

In my opinion as it is it is worth nothing. Probably you pay to have it removed. Its too big. Sycamore is a very low demand sawn lumber and its a pretty ugly tree. The only way this is worth anything is if someone takes the risk of Milling it. And that is far easier in situ with a lucas or alaskan.
If it were mine or free and very local to me I would mill it for sure. If i had to pay for the chance to take the risk? Any more than £50 and I wouldn't.
On the other hand turning that tree into logs is also a right pita so not loads of money to be made there either

[Newman Maintenance]

Ok, thanks for the views all, will just process myself and sell as planned no worries.

[muttley9050]

Ok, thanks for the views all, will just process myself and sell as planned no worries.

Pics of the slabs please.

[Newman Maintenance]

2 hours ago, muttley9050 said:

2 hours ago, Newman Maintenance said:

Ok, thanks for the views all, will just process myself and sell as planned no worries.

Pics of the slabs please.

Hi, send me a PM with size details and amount you're after if you are interested in buying any please.

[trigger_andy]

Would be nice to see pics of the slabs as well.

[Newman Maintenance]

Yeah, no worries.

 

On bloody self isolation at the moment so will be a little while but I'll post some pics when I've started. There is so much it's crazy, the photo I posted is only a small part of 1 of the trees.

 

There are 30 inch wide, 20ft long straight branches, another whole tree as well and I shifted stacks of small stuff to my land for firewood

Edited January 10, 2021 by Newman Maintenance

[Billhook]

On 10/01/2021 at 10:31, muttley9050 said:

In my opinion as it is it is worth nothing. Probably you pay to have it removed. Its too big. Sycamore is a very low demand sawn lumber and its a pretty ugly tree. The only way this is worth anything is if someone takes the risk of Milling it. And that is far easier in situ with a lucas or alaskan.
If it were mine or free and very local to me I would mill it for sure. If i had to pay for the chance to take the risk? Any more than £50 and I wouldn't.
On the other hand turning that tree into logs is also a right pita so not loads of money to be made there either

Have you ever slabbed a large sycamore with your Lucas and was the result worth it?

I have a four and a half foot wide trunk twelve feet long, nice and straight with no knots and was debating whether to try and make some natural edged tables from it to try out my new planer and sander on the Lucas Model 8 after slabbing it at three inches thick.

[muttley9050]

Never as large as that. Got some cracking 2ft Slabs. Used some as a table in the camper think I've a picture somewhere