spiral
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Great stuff! Once given the thought 5 minutes searching on google found it! Thanks! spiral
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Great figure of darker heart resembling a semi squatting naked woman in the figuring!
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Yes please! I am sure Jackalope would be great full to you... spiral
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Last 6 or 7 years mainly knotty holm oak, Bay, hazel, yew , opepe, some driftwood conifer & long dead elm, this year nearly all laburnham.... But will run out by January probably I think... Kiln dry spruce & pine joinery/furniture offcuts for kindling most of the time..{everything else just isn't as good.} Need another standing dead elm or sun bleached driftwood conifer or 2 really. spiral
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Cool, is that the heart or {just off.} board? that's the one I thought might be amazing?
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Ahh sorry both double cross purpoises then, {or dolphins even..] If you read back through the posts I said I said not many would want 6ft by 12... I said they would want 6ft by 18ft ... so perhaps we agree? Either way... its all good..
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firewood....
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So you think that on the cuts shown so far it looks better as the wood than the tree? I love timber & trees myself... But first cut doesn't look boardroom quality to me...
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se7enthdevil says burn the timber! Only kidding... what do you think of the wine table? I think the top inlay was a fossilised slice of the same timber. spiral
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Heart cut might be interesting..? but yes if rotten no good... I can admire character in timber, but stability is often key, You can sometimes design round it, but stability is important for most things. As I said to the thread starter, starter, cut it in half , if its good that's great, if not its still firewood...
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double post
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Is it a pig shaped cock or a pig shaped women? Or both?
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Examples of such 6ft wide 12 ft long pieces? Of similar timber? Ive worked sub contract for famous cabinet makers who sell the £30,000 tables, {that had there name on but they never touched.} {15 plus years ago..} Those timbers were rather special, & the proportions rather good.
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mmm best if it is though, defect free, straight grained & quartersawn as well.{ unless some amazingly stable tropical timber..} Then you don't have problems shutting a fag paper accuracy fitted door next time it poor's down from the heavens for a month... Just IMHO of course. But I agree for waney edged furniture , cracks inclusion's etc are all good... {Again IMHO.} But my question was serious ... is anyone in uk buying 6 ft wide table? & if they are Id guess they would want them 18 ft long at least! {to keep proportions looking good.... If they are... that's cool... there kitchen or dining room must be a beut! But if I could house a 6 ft wide table... Id want some amazing plank to do it with! Sadly such a beauty wouldn't fit in my place...
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Not arguing with any statements here, but just reflecting a shared interest... As best I recall & could see this was turned from a slow grown 12 inch diameter trunk. A small South American side/wine table, As its not English turning work though, & probably heading towards antique, rather than vintage, so Id guess many people may not of seen it, turned in quite this manner before? Knot spacing will be much longer on most UK timber as well, so maybe {k}not or more likely probably impossible achieve same results with UK timber. {unless grown in the Orkneys or some such...}
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Not much call for full width 6ft wide oak boards in their full width, they usually get cut down...{Nice to start that way though!} Certainly isn't joinery timber though! Its the heart board that might be amazing though? But does anyone want a 6ft wide table? Ahh well some threads bring a lot out in people anyway... Still I suspect would have been better as a tree! Funny, its long time since I worked as primary sawyer a saw mill, But Id have gone for the heart cut first. Then deduce what to do working outwards.... spiral
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Thanks Rover, what a fascinating beast! Glad you got it. More pics would be good! any of the butt end? How old was it? spiral
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Evryone? As in everyone who posted on this thread was childish? I think not judging from your comment....
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What happened next? Spiral
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mmmm A New way to coppice on a cool autumn morning! Is the cab heated? no little bonfire needed at tea/soup break even! Great toy, id have two! But crap in the bigger scheme really.... spiral
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"Garlic injection could tackle tree diseases"
spiral replied to Kveldssanger's topic in Tree health care
Raw garlic left on skin can causes sulphur burns... Many people trying to cure spots, warts & STDs . have made that mistake. {to test put a thin slice inside cheek, under foreskin or up bum for as many hours as you can bear.... } But the mafia story for bullets & also Jamaican pimps face cutting knives have truth in them.... If garlic is left in oil in a grubby container for months in the sun it often forms a breeding ground for botulism, not good in a wound... Great stuff when fresh in food though! {Garlic not botulism...} spiral -
Looks like part of the further urban spread for immigration purposes! In reality good job though..... spiral
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To me it looks like a possibly medieval pollard oak with recovered overgrowth over previous large branch stubs. Shame its not well recorded or protected....Most Ive seen don't recover & overgrow that well. Shame if it goes , but sadly greed rules the world... Anyone who just rings it up for firewood though is a fool to themselves... At least cut it in half to see what its like......first.. If its not hollow & rotted out, pics of it sawn in half would sell it. If its amazing you'll do well. If not you've lost a little time & learnt a lot & seen inside that old beauty. And it can still be firewood.... spiral
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He might be sharper than he presents? ... If every misunderstanding is in his financial favour? Spiral
