the 'todays job' thread

[Mick Dempsey]

8 hours ago, woody paul said:

Dead horse chestnut could only get small Mewp in as tight for space and had to remove large timber.

 

Good use of equipment in a tight situation.

[bigtreedon]

Final day in stockport more rain but we had done the hard word rigging the side over road yesterday afternoon as it dark making use of the dry couple of hrs we got so got on sight this morning and got it down !

[bigtreedon]

[Baldbloke]

Dead elm near the house

[gary112]

32 minutes ago, Baldbloke said:

Dead elm near the house

Like the log dog?

[Rough Hewn]

Dead elm near the house

Tell me you kept the stem to mill?
[emoji848]

[Baldbloke]

No, it wasn’t too special. No real figure (and no burrs) and very wet in the middle.
Although there’s a high stump to take down yet if you’re interested?
I used to take a lot of dead elm down alongside a burn/stream and that had massive burrs. Some 4/5 ft in diameter.The guy that took them said he’d give me what they were worth after he’d done his bowl turning. Never heard from him until I bumped into him at a trade fair with him selling his burr elm bowls. Got one 10 inch diameter bowl for about 5 ton of stump burrs. Kind of lost interested after that.

[Mark Bolam]

Turners eh?

My experience pretty much reflects yours.

[oldwoodcutter]

Turners and carvers used to contact me all the time, looking for this or that species , and excitingly talking about burrs.

After going out of my way a few times to fix them up I was always let down at the end by them finding fault with everything which inevitably lead to only paying a derisory amount.

So now, as I value my time and effort, I don’t have any truck with any of them.

 

[oldwoodcutter]

Turners and carvers used to contact me all the time, looking for this or that species , and excitingly talking about burrs.
After going out of my way a few times to fix them up I was always let down at the end by them finding fault with everything which inevitably lead to only paying a derisory amount.
So now, as I value my time and effort, I don’t have any truck with any of them.