se7enthdevil
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i considered this as a possibility but I've no experience with any species of the populus genus so cant answer my own question. i was hoping the bark might be recognizable to someone. i must admit it looks very like a pop bark and considering the lack of visible pores it would be a conclusion id accept if someone can tell me that the heart wood can look like that because of fungal infection or soil conditions. the only pics I've seen of polar are all white...
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i'm usually the one helping out other people with this subject but i'll need someone else's help here. this timber has come from Windsor great park possibly from someones garden. there are no visible pores in the wood and its relatively weighty. i don't know if the wood is spalted but it doesn't look like any spalting I've seen and it's freshly felled and there is no spalting in the sap wood (usually the first to spalt) so i'm taking it that the wood usually looks like this. I've no foliage to go on. please help...
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if its rustic then give it an ok sand and use osmo or briwax...
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might be interested in one for huge bowl blanks. what you asking?
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what exactly is it then???
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beech isn't that expensive and can be bought for about £2 per hoppus foot maybe a bit more for top quality which that isn't and looking at the tree i reckon there is 80-100 hoppus feet in it so they might get £200 max. still worth milling though as i hate to see anything get wasted on the fire... perhaps if the split all the logs they could get another £100 worth of firewood? if they can get a car load of the small logs to j7 of the m4 i'll happily buy some.
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i found lebanon, alaskan and deodar cedar to all be pretty much the same. why do you only want lebonese???
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strawberry tree
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thought they were called marlin spikes...
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i've turned a couple of fids before. would you like me to make you a pair? what wood would you like them to be?
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Hawthorn - remove, thin or pollard..?
se7enthdevil replied to adamthearborist's topic in General chat
12"+ X 36"+ that way i can slice and dice to get the best out of the log. -
Hawthorn - remove, thin or pollard..?
se7enthdevil replied to adamthearborist's topic in General chat
if it does get felled i would like a lump of the trunk for turning... -
i know i'm biased as a woodturner but olive wood is surely a craft wood not firewood???
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Sweet chestnut - how far north?
se7enthdevil replied to wrsni's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
i was talking to big j the other day and he was telling me about some great examples he'd seen and he lives in edinborough. -
downy birch??
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hi all, i'm looking for 2 planks of fully seasoned beech that needs to be about 16" wide by 8' long and 2" thick with an intact waney edge with no worm, can anyone help me out??? it need to be quite flat as its to be a kitchen island so no spalting please and no massive knots, it needs to be relatively clean. a plank cut just off center would be ideal. if anyone can help then please contact me asap 01628 666191 thanks Steve
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a very arse about face way of doing that in my opinion. a good saw bench will do the job.
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i saw that to but i never realised it was such a problem though. i did like the solution that fella had come up with though, search and destroy...
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i saw that 3-4 days ago and pointed it out to delabodge as i remembered he made outdoor tables and benches from it. he said he'd keep an eye on it, looks like he could get a bargain at this rate.
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must be perfectly dry to be of any use in my opinion. it still burns though...
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purely because i'm a woodturner it might be nice to have a picture of the timber too, might be able to help you out here. the wood database is a website in built by Eric Meyer in the states (The Wood Database | Hardwood and Softwood Lumber Identification) and i'v helped him out with lots of samples that he has pictures for (see about the project page contributors bit) and i'm sure he will let you use his scans of the wood and i'll help supply any pics of the wood in use if you wish.
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i like this one myself, Solid Air Dried Oak Beams Timber Posts Hardwood - 3.2m and 4.2m | eBay works out at just under £30ft3 which they claim is "cheaper than green oak", more like twice the price... according to what they paid for them they purchased the oak at £50ft3, boy were they ripped off!!!
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unless you find a slab that has been drying for x amount of years in a barn (very rare) bowls of that size need to be turned wet as the large diameter could mean that the radial shrinkage will be too great compared to the tangential and go too far oval for a round bowl to then be turned once dry
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that's a beast, i'll have to settle for a large branch 18" or so but i'd love one day to turn a 5' bowl. if that tree is solid it should be slabbed for tabletops.
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would be interested in some for turning, what diameters are there?
