This weeks milling

[Forest2Furniture]

Started preparing this 40' long x 42" diameter Wych Elm stem for milling today.

 

Cut two sections off one at 12' the other at 9', I'll mill those first then move on to the rest.

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

That's just a tease! More pics as it mills??

[Forest2Furniture]

The tree is at the top end of a cemetery with no vehicular access in any way shape or form so milling is by chainsaw and everything is being hand-balled the 200 yds to the entrance.

Up until the point of the tree being felled no one was interested, now the tree is being milled the world and his wife want a piece of the action and I'm getting caught in the middle of a turf war, don't you just love community trees.

 

However the timber is starting to be worth the trouble.

[Mike Black]

Gorgeous boards!