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Sure large timbers are always stronger, just going on tradition more than anything else. Hadn't realised they were quite that size either! Either way its all good stuff. The headboard & tailboard on my first & only bed were just planked tennons, {1 inch thick though in Douglass fir, into 3 inch pitch pine.} They Didn't even have a shoulder! spiral

What a great bunch of stuff! Excellent. I am intrigued by this joint though... Why is the mortice cut so deep that the tenons meet & is also open at the top? {No haunch.} unless its for a reason I can see , I would have thought that radicaly reduced the strength of the leg. frame joint area,, particularly if base of leg is pushed ,knocked etc?? Good to see someone else who enjoys making stuff as well! Spiral

Nice turning! Interesting to see hornbeam in use, I am aware of its properties but never come across any of the timber. Ive only ever turned a few things, posts of old growth reclaimed pitch pine, {Ex ships timbers.} for my bed , One bowl & one platter...& a dozen or baseball bats for the blokes I worked with in the shipyard 20 odd years ago. all self taught so not the best... Bed was fine , still got it & like it,but bowl & platter I just screwed to faceplate rather than turning a mount. Understand what you mean about any colour but wondered if red or white beech more usually had the qualities of hardness you were looking for? Most blue or black beach might be not very hard! Intrigued by the first table, & mortice joint in that thread, but Ill post on that thread rather than further derailing this one. Spiral

Wow! serious lumps then! Do you find white or red beech best? {Genuinly red not the German pink steamed stuff.} Definite advantage that if necessary turning smaller is possible. Spiral

Of course.... How Wales is defeating bovine TB without killing badgers - The Ecologist I agree the countrys mad, but the misspending of money is across the board...in many sectors, managers rather nurses, new buildings, rather than teaching staff not to mention , defense , nps & some of the Aid to abroad scams.... {IMHO} spiral

True & Sounds a good use! The combination Short lengths & fat dimensions plus turning all limit the effect of warp,cup & twist. What diameter do they end up at? spiral

mmm it can be beautiful indeed, & for indoor use it works, The poster is suggesting using it outside & even for fence rails. Personally although it can be amazingly stunning in figure I've always found it to warp a lot & be loved by woodworm. The trunk featured looks particularly likely to warp as planks I would have thought? But yes short lengths cut thick ,dried & kilned the planed flat a couple of times. I am sure would be beautiful . So yes miss shaped, end of life sized beech , is great for Coffee tables & firewood! & bowl turning as well of course. Spiral

Classic! Without the study & if you cant even remember where you read it , how do we know that you didn't misunderstand it or miss some relevant key words & just used it to support your belief? Or that it was just silly stuff funded by Iliketokillitmakesmefeelhard.co.uk Wales have been having great results with Bovine TB without killing badgers. In fact the number of cattle slaughtered due to bovine TB has nearly halved in just 4 years, from 11,671 in 2009 down to 6,102 in 2013. This has been done by managing cattle not badgers. The methods involved include. •Annual testing of all cattle throughout Wales . •Zero tolerance on overdue tests •Movement restrictions •DNA tagging of infected animals to ensure the correct animals are sent to slaughter •Setting up Intensive Action Areas to advise farmers on bio-security and best practice to reduce disease spread and keep disease out of the herd. The opposite approach used in England, based on badger slaughter in individual areas has not worked. So it seems the way forward is educating farmers & stricter controls on cattle movement...etc. as above. If badger setts were also tested & if infected they & the badgers based in it destroyed, it seems a very good job would have been done to help eradicate this disease. Spiral

Fencing or outside use is ridicules... it will be mush in 2 years. Perhaps you should point that out to your client? If there so ignorant to insist you carry on, fair enough.. Waste of good firewood, though.... spiral

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That's sounds well thought out, based on fact rather than belief & generaly very true to me.... spiral

Aint that the truth! spiral

2 things.... One The information is from a fellow I know who is in charge of the beating on a local estate. He says the quantity shot against the actual demand , make them worthless when, in comparison to the blokes flown in by helicopter by major corporations, pay thousands to shoot them. {obviously a few get eaten, but not the hundreds shot at every shoot.} Secondly, I am not the original poster... so have spent no money of mine or any one else's, I just thought what he had done was a nice change that the shoot them all approach favoured by some. spiral

mmm the Chinese conundrum... save a mans life & always be responsible for him... Years ago I killed to eat, as I was taught & later on occasion because I could, for the pot that seems ok to me...not a pleasure, just what had to be done. Took pleasure in a good shot, minimal kicking & thrashing, that always seemed best to me. But I don't understand the historical British preoccupation with killing every carnivore or omnivore. {such as fox,wild boar,Lynx,golden eagle,wild cat, wolf etc.} Id be happier if we reintroduced such species, although of course with increasing lack of remote area ,woodlands etc that could be increasingly difficult. Whats the problems with buzzards? they help to keep the rabbit population under control? Do you want to kill them as well as the badgers,foxs , lynx wolf etc? Sure they eat a few pheasants, but the rich boys who fly in to shoot them , don't even take them away, round here , they just get dumped in a ditch to burn or rot. That is what seem wrong to me. I know were an increasingly sadly overpopulated little island, but to me Id rather a little differentiation in species out there, Rather than just farm animals & humans. But that's just how I see it. Spiral

Thanks! Yep, Id have to agree its pippy, I was just chuffed with it & wanted to show it off. And see if anyone wants to get rid of similar? {Iwish!} I agree with your definition, I have had solid burrs & even burr planks though, when the growths are extensive enough they sometimes form part of the trunk even when planked.. Interestingly amongst cabinet makers & antique furniture makers they would usually term it as burr or occasionly pippy burr. But I agree simply pippy it is!

Just belt sanded the nearly 1/8th inch thick yellow varnish ,{which someone poured over it in the 60s or 70s.}of this reclaimed yew table top. {dust still visible in the tiny bark pockets.} I am sure , its a personal thing but is it just Very pippy? or pippy burr? Either way I love it! Any one with wide boards of yew as good or better than that please get in touch, by PM. Even if only 4 ft or so of the overall length of whatever length plank is wide & figured. About 30 inches wide would be good, but wider or narrower , might work. spiral

mmm RSPCA say on average 4 to 6 per cent of badgers have bovine TB & Imperial college London say 5.7% of cattle infections are directly from badgers. I have no objection to the culling of tb infected animals, including badgers. That seems sensible to me. Its the wholesale slaughter across vast areas of uninfected animals I object to. See attached file at base of post... in one area 243 badgers culled, only 4 with TB. or 446 killed for 12 infected... not good odds. Best result 293 dead for 103 infected... Youd soon scream at those odds for cattle. My naietivty of expression comes from knowledge picked up from the local butcher who runs his own farm...as did his parents & grandparents.. But if you wish to feel you insult me by using the term country file... fine... I don't feel particularly insulted... Ive been called worse in life. Its interesting that 2/3 of TB slaughtered cattle are still considered fit to enter the food chain. & that apparently the cases of BTB in humans is so minimal in countrys were milk is pasteurised. Agi smash... hoped my post helps a bit more explaining my views. Sure lets try & eradicate TB but killing every black & white bugger wont do that. Difflock... I agree & have seen the same.... I am a long way from being the type of person you describe... Last report I read on child health based on area of upbringing, farm kids had less illness than anyone by teenage years because they had built up a natural immunity due to all the germs, dung, animals, viruses etc. I guess what doesn't kill you makes you stronger..... {Barring polio, hiv, pneumonia etc.} spiral

Cheers...Yes it was... Used to enjoy watching them pottering around & the young playing on the few occasions I was lucky enough to see them. mmmm almost as perfect as red deer & cattle? & of course we know which one of those is pumped full of antibiotics for the sake of greed. {Weight gain side effect.} So which truly poses the greatest risk of making the disease untreatable? Seems obvious to me. spiral

Great job!, Sadly I saw a major famous building company bulldoze a hedgerow full of nesting birds & badgers into oblivion about 14 years ago. {They Built about 2000 houses there over a few years.} The parent birds were frantic, never saw the badgers again, they used to come up into my parents garden & knock the birdbath over till I put an old milk churn lid on the ground for them to get water, they once dug in the flower bed & under the fence into the neighbours, & used to scoop little patches out of the lawn for worms, but they seemed a nice enough family animal & seem sadly much maligned species to me. They company denied there had been a badger sett there & the council were happy with that. {They were all best buddies....scum} There's hardly a hedge or wood for miles round there know. Spiral

Ahhh mine was on the 7lb Elwell, guess the leverage & shock was a bit heavier on that. For kindling, Id guess most things would do... Spiral

Pink Heart of hickory is as good if not better than sap hickory. Smashed many brand new ash shafts on spades..... Ash left too long in round before planking ..... wood can still look ok but goes brittle... Think my dad used to call it "Brashy ash failure"? {He was a buyer & manger for CF Andersons timber firm in Islington, many decades ago... Its where I first started to learn about timber, as a little kid....} spiral

Beech broke in first first hour or so... Grain looked perfect but snapped showed realy short grain. Yep cleaved is the way to go, from green originally of course. Mine were draw knifed & spoke shaved but from quarter sawn stock , with straight grain, {not spiral or cross.] but picking the required shape from the board... same as cabriole legs. The sad bit is my 7lb Elwell felling axe {That I use for splitting crutch & knotty timbers is needing a new one.} Only suitable timber Ive nowadays got is some old purpleheart Ive had in the attick for nearly 15 years. But cant drawknife that the grains to interlocked. Guess Ill have to follow your branch ,sapling method. Spiral

Good project! Went through a similar process a few years back! {several times....Even tried beach....} Greenheart is very splintery, Robina is great, Laburnam & Wych elm are brilliant. All has to be straight grained & quarter sawn of course. Spiral

mmmm yes but hardly a mature specimen either? & yes I agree it would cost a lot to buy... But of what relevance is that to the point in Questian? It might even turn an English yew {If it is.} into a fastigiata! spiral

Indeed, but rather misses the point I am not the original poster. But I do believe when one buys a property to make a home, One sapling lost is not so terrible. As for your inlaws & myself, I suspect Ive planted rather more trees in many environments than they have? {Pure conjecture of course.} Anyway, I am sure we both love trees,dogs, fresh air,clean water stc.etc. Regards, Spiral