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  1. spiral
    Its most valuable use is sauna furniture, but then its usually the slow grown Scandinavian stuff. {Common Poplar.} Probably a very select market unless in Finland or some such. Favoured for lack of splinters & hot leaking resin sticking to bare butts! spiral
  2. spiral
    Cheers!
  3. spiral
    Any links? sound good.
  4. spiral
    Me to, when I take migraine tablets it improves for a week or so , {but don't recommend. There not good for you.}] Other than that large amount of grated fresh ginger root with boiled water & lemon in a teapot like old fashioned tea on a daily basis seems to help me, during the winter.
  5. spiral
    And that's height looking for the sun not the thickness!
  6. spiral
    True but there softwoods originally from cold climates! Oak Elm & Ash in Devon valleys {Not the moor ones.} grow or grew like there fed chocolate!
  7. spiral
    They were telling you porkys... Although of course I agree,anywhere can have poor sites slowing growth, lack of soil, exposed positions , over crowded growth etc. But latitude in temperate zones does make a big difference, trees grow quicker in Devon than most non south coast places. Ive had laburnam firewood in Devon at 25 years old & 12 inch diameter {walled garden.} & 80 years old & 6 inch diameter. { You could see the North Atlantic from where it grew.} There are softwood growth yield charts & I think I have a Victorian data comparing Devon & Northen Elm somewhere, but in truth Trees do go faster round here than in the frozen lands. Even in Finland the southern growing spruce is much faster than the northern. Was at Knighthayes on Tuesday, don't reckon those turkey oaks would be that fat in the frozen north?
  8. spiral
    I agree totally, as much as I personaly hate sapwood, in truth most furniture makers would just dye it, as they have since the 1930s.
  9. spiral
    Could be plantation grown Sheesham.
  10. spiral
    Big J & Devon Twig, The difference in quality & & amount of heartwood between Devon & Scotland is immense. Many hardwoods in Devon grow at about 4 rings an inch on good sites, Id guess Scotland is nearer 10? Due to colder temperature's , longer winters & regular frost.
  11. spiral
    They stopped arguing 2 days ago. You just put it back to the top, for some reason?
  12. spiral
    Good for pallets...or firewood....
  13. spiral
    Wow! guess I was very lucky as the board even included, cross cut burr & fiddleback, It was from a pile of timber that had been in a cellar for years though, perhaps time played a part. spiral
  14. spiral
    Only if spiral grained I think? Ive made a chest from 24 inch wide slow grown sweet chestnut, hardly plained anything of it & 18 years later its still flat. {including the heart board for the top.}
  15. spiral
    Well if hes still about & still learning in a couple more years he might have learnt a lot by then & be doing it properly.... Think of him as a pioneer! If doing it commercially? A different matter.
  16. spiral
    A very even & quality reply, considering the provocation. Good luck with the dog, the child & the business.
  17. spiral
    Your Scum.
  18. spiral
    I wonder if he will dry it first , smoulder it or advertise it for sale, locally?
  19. spiral
    The originally kiln dried 100% perfect slow grown, knot & totally defect free A1 grade Finnish spruce that's been in my loft for 15 years is damper in the winter than the summer. That's from moisture drawn from surrounding air... spiral
  20. spiral
    Ahh I see! Beech full of good preservative lasts longer than good oak when used for railway sleepers...
  21. spiral
    A simple click on link should have done it, then click on link on opened page... no copy to Device stuff..... Yep when I was at school they brought a calculater into the class & shoud it to us... the school had bought 1 for £400! 5 years later they were free in boxes of cornflakes...
  22. spiral
    A neighbour put a working fridge freezer by the path outside his house, with note saying, "working order free to a good home" after 2 days it was still there & his wife said, change it to working order £20.. Someone nicked it that night! {But it was Friday....}
  23. spiral
    On a 10 ft log its the short end that matters...
  24. spiral
    Isnt it... I guess some treecutters have trouble with the internet, but many webers would have trouble cutting a tree! Some can do both to a lesser or greater degree.
  25. spiral
    Beach probably rots quicker outside than any wood other than Birch... But can be very easily pressure impregnated to a high saturation level with preservative. But if you were using it outside , why would you want it kiln dried? spiral

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