Stumps wanted

[spandit]

My wife is starting a forest school and she'd like some stumps for children to sit on - what wood would be best (i.e. rot resistant etc.)?

 

If you have any gnarly bits that are no good for firewood, we'd gladly take them off your hands

[se7enthdevil]

durable timbers would be things like robinia, larch, cypress, eucalyptus and wellingtonia.

[slack ma girdle]

I winched out some 12 year old Laylandii stumps last week, and the wood was as good as the day it was felled, no rot at all.

[10 Bears]

Larch can be a bit sticky on the cut ends for a while after felling due to resins - but these are of course what stop the wood from rotting.

 

I would suggest Hawthorn personally. Often quite interesting looking and practically indestructible.

 

Except by fire of course...

[spandit]

Don't often see hawthorn that big, though. I've hauled some Scots pine up there - might have to replace it every year

[10 Bears]

Thats a shame about the Hawthorn. I built a lovely Hawthorn bench for outside of my house a good 10 years ago now, left it natural/untreated, and its still absolutely solid with no sign of rot anywhere.

 

It came from a windblow down my road that I cleared up, the legs on it are ~40cm dia...

[woodworm]

I would definitely go for Sweet Chestnut

[spandit]

Anyone got any going spare in Sussex?