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I always save any box I can but have now collected far more than I need. I need to make some space but I'd like strong beer money for this lot. It's 2-4 inch, the short ones are around 2 ft long and the long 2 are over 4 ft. If anyone is interested let me know 

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I always save any box I can but have now collected far more than I need. I need to make some space but I'd like strong beer money for this lot. It's 2-4 inch, the short ones are around 2 ft long and the long 2 are over 4 ft. If anyone is interested let me know 
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What’s so good about Box wood? Not heard anything about it.
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1 hour ago, G13469 said:

I always save any box I can but have now collected far more than I need. I need to make some space but I'd like strong beer money for this lot. It's 2-4 inch, the short ones are around 2 ft long and the long 2 are over 4 ft. If anyone is interested let me know 

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Good luck selling that for more that a few pints

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It’s Europe’s hardest wood, they use it for knife scales in one of the factories South of me, dense and silky smooth in the hand. It comes a lot bigger than that too. I removed an 150 year old hedge in West Sussex a couple of years back, four to six inch diameter. I’ve seen it growing near me getting on for eight inches, it’s certainly the biggest that I have come across.

It can be a pig to dry and quite often splits itself straight down the middle.

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2 hours ago, trigger_andy said:

 

 


What’s so good about Box wood? Not heard anything about it.

It is very stable and was used for draughtsmen’s rulers, I have some from WW2 that my father used when drawing up plans, they are scaled but in inches.

 

Churchill got very upset when boxes were felled at Chequers  for the war effort, he called it arboricide.

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