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  1. se7enthdevil
    get the logs and branches to woodturners....... waste nothing over 5" diameter.
  2. se7enthdevil
    that might do the job, any pictures??? hope it's not rotten as elm is not the most durable of species...
  3. se7enthdevil
    as long as there is 12" of heartwood that might be ideal... who's this mate of mine??? i haven't got any mates surely???
  4. se7enthdevil
    this item is at the base of the strongman "ring the bell" equipment you use at the fairground. we use the sledgehammer to whack a block which is on a pivot (that's what fits in the slot) that then hits a pin inside the hole and if you've hit it hard enough it slides up the pole and rings the bell... this lump i need to remake sits at the base of the pole and is where the pin gets lunched from so it takes alot of punishment.
  5. se7enthdevil
    may be of interest but i was hoping for a naturally durable timber. how dry are they...
  6. se7enthdevil
    hoping someone can help me get a bit of relatively dry timber for a customers project... i need to make this. it is 12" diameter and just over 24" tall originally made from a softwood. i'm looking for a bit of doug fir or larch or cedar (no sap please) to try and turn this sucker from. telegraph pole off cuts are a possibility as long as i can get a 12" diameter from them. one other option is to bolt four 6" square beams together and the customer is ok with this so if anyone has any 6" square air dry timber that is relatively durable then please let me know. if anyone has any other suggestions then please let me know.
  7. se7enthdevil
    i'd love some of that timber if anyone drops one...
  8. se7enthdevil
    make sure you video it Mark, i've been waiting for a live version for years.
  9. se7enthdevil
    why are you inlaying the bracing?
  10. se7enthdevil
    if it was really rotten that would have exploded hitting the ground. the fact that such a beast has only one fracture in it says to me that the wood is most likely nice and sound. looking into that fracture the timber looks in excellent condition too.
  11. se7enthdevil
    you were the man i was thinking of mate. you could get some bloody nice table tops from that sucker...
  12. se7enthdevil
    tons of beech leaves too.
  13. se7enthdevil
    i was thinking exactly that. beech all the way...
  14. se7enthdevil
    naaaahh thats rubbish... you could have put some effort in to it Mark.... only kidding, cracking work bud i'd be proud of that one myself...
  15. se7enthdevil
    nothofagus is a likely genus but i wouldn't like to say which one...
  16. se7enthdevil
    if you've cut it down any chance of a sample of the trunk? do you have any bits of it???
  17. se7enthdevil
    do you mean one of these???
  18. se7enthdevil
    an A frame glamping pod type thing???????? you will have to explain to me what that is precisely Mark????
  19. se7enthdevil
    can it not be grazed by a local goat or sheep???
  20. se7enthdevil
    what's a Ricking horse then??? nice beech though. i see quite a bit of that when i turn my skittles and some of it i can't bring myself to make into a skittle as it's so nice.
  21. se7enthdevil
    my latest projects. a baseball bat for my youngest nephew as he got a mitt for christmas and a christmas gift for my mum in the shape of a nut bowl to stop her covering herself in shells whenever she eats them.
  22. se7enthdevil
    and there was me thinking it was me having done something wrong on my PC... ok now thanks to that techno whizz SB...
  23. se7enthdevil
    well it is either a species of ebony from the genus Diospyros (which i'm a little doubtful of myself) or African blackwood Dalbergia melanoxylon. the "very hard" statement leads me to say it's Blackwood as that has a janka rating of well over 3500lbf (UK boxwood is only 2800) and is around 80lbft3 in weight which you can work out if it is close to your log if you weight the log and then work out its volume.
  24. se7enthdevil
    you just need to tell me one thing. is it black or purple like the photo shows???
  25. se7enthdevil
    look at common sizes sold by lumber companies and copy those. larger 10" or 12" boards may be better as DF is very stable.

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