Monkey puzzle take down

[mdvaden]

  yewhunter18 said:

It worth a fair bit if you want to peel the bark sit on it fir two years then plank it store it and try find a seller , or you could just sell it to me

 

What is the benefit of peeling the bark off before storage.

 

[morten]

  yewhunter18 said:

It worth a fair bit if you want to peel the bark sit on it fir two years then plank it store it and try find a seller , or you could just sell it to me

 

I'd plank it while wet, to reduce the cracking of the timber, due to the different shrinkage rate perpendicular to the grain compared to parallel with the grain.

[yewhunter18]

Without the bark it would dry better and also I prefer to leave it until semi dry as a log befor u plank if you do it when wet you get alot of distortion in the boards , plus leave the logs out side on the ground you start getting black streecks throughout it after an out two years

[yewhunter18]

  SiW said:

Was thinking if I planked some on site would make it easier to shift

 

Yeah good idea just don't have my storage sorted for planks yet that was the whole Idea just sit on them a while

[Heads up]

one of my first jobs in this industry was a monkey puzzle fell, was also before that firm had a chipper so I was buzzing down on the back.

Was like battling a spikey octpus.

[SiW]

It wasn't to bad to be honest, would choose it over hawthorn any day. Me £5 pair of thorn resistant gloves from B&Q (am sure other stores sell them aswell lol) did a great job. Yeah I got a few scratches but now more than a day reducing a conifer hedge

[yewhunter18]

How big a bit did you manage to get them out in ??

[SiW]

Trunk is still up, had 10 30 foot conifers to top as well, trunk would have been in way if we felled it today, but it's not lookin goog for getting big bits out