Elderberry wood

[Bolt]

4 minutes ago, Puffingbilly413 said:

I burn a fair bit of it.  As others have said, it's pretty dense stuff.  Burns a treat.

Perhaps I'm wasting my time with lottery tickets if I'm due bad luck though.

Luck offsetting.  
 

Buying the lottery tickets should counter any bad luck, leaving you with neutral ‘no luck’

 

 

[Puffingbilly413]

3 minutes ago, Bolt said:

Luck offsetting.  
 

Buying the lottery tickets should counter any bad luck, leaving you with neutral ‘no luck’

 

 

Right then - no more elder for me.  Euromillions win on Fri it is.

[Bolt]

6 minutes ago, Puffingbilly413 said:

Right then - no more elder for me.  Euromillions win on Fri it is.

Perfect.

 

 

This time next year you’ll be swimming in partially kiln-dried oak.

 

[coppice cutter]

3 hours ago, Bolt said:

TBH, Elder is a pretty underrated tree.

 

Produce includes:

• Firewood

• red wine

• unbeatable wands

• white wine.

Syrup made with the berries is supposed to be an immune system booster.

 

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[rapalaman]

The flowers make a lovely sweet desert wine, and the berries a great, rich red. Years since I’ve done any of either though 

[Bolt]

18 minutes ago, coppice cutter said:

Syrup made with the berries is supposed to be an immune system booster....

 

:- )

 

I’m sure it’s no more or less demonstrably effective than any of the current alternatives!

 

 

 

[H and J]

Thanks for all the posts on elderberry wood.

 

Woody Paul  said used to split it for snare pegs.  I use hazel for all my purse and long net pegs. When seasoned it is very hard and I cut it to  a point on one end and place it in a fire to harden further.

I feed elder, rowan and rose hip berries to the Siberian Bullfinches that I breed... helps to enhance the colour in the cock birds when moulting and use privet berries for the hens.

 

From various posts on having elderberry in the house saying it could mean bad luck will have to think about that  

 

 

 

[Stere]

 

[woody paul]

Had a piece of dry elderberry go through a rear tractor tyre when swiping shoot rides was about one and a half inches in diameter. 

 

 

[coppice cutter]

26 minutes ago, [email protected] said:

Thanks for all the posts on elderberry wood.

 

Woody Paul  said used to split it for snare pegs.  I use hazel for all my purse and long net pegs. When seasoned it is very hard and I cut it to  a point on one end and place it in a fire to harden further.

I feed elder, rowan and rose hip berries to the Siberian Bullfinches that I breed... helps to enhance the colour in the cock birds when moulting and use privet berries for the hens.

 

From various posts on having elderberry in the house saying it could mean bad luck will have to think about that  

 

 

 

You sound like someone who has more interesting and/or useful information to impart Jean.

 

There's a forum here somewhere for pretty much anything you can think of, don't be slow to chip in in future.