Milling Poplar

[Billhook]

32 minutes ago, openspaceman said:

I wonder how it would have faired if it were ash, I suspect it would have been riddled with woodworm.

The cabin did have a bit of wood worm in the first year, but since the logs are over a foot in diameter,, many 18 inches they do not seem to penetrate very far.

 Because it was built in the BSE year Mad Cow disease the team from Devon  run by the talented

Dan Franklin could not build it in situ in the Summer so we had to build it in a barn that Winter and then move it the following Summer.  This meant that some of the logs in the top layer had warped slightly, not having had a heavy roof to hold them down over Winter

The result being a tiny gap which a Pipistrelle bat could just squeeze through and there now is a thriving colony there doing well by the lake where there are plenty of insects.  Perhaps they also feed on woodworms???

 

I need to build a whole lot more cabins for people who like Glamping and want to escape the next ever so scary mutant strain that the government can control the population with

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[Billhook]

Just found this link which states further down the page that bats do indeed eat woodworms!

 

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[Big Beech]

What type of poplar?