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Wood bank

Postby mulk » 24 Feb 2015, 09:21

In my town, there;s a new business, the Wood Bank http://thewoodbank.com

I went in there the other day.

Quite expensive, and their spalted Maple was not very spalted.

Also, many units of Amazonian hard-woods did not sit well with me.

But there was much salvage old-growth Fir, in very large bolts.

This concept may be a winner, if it can be implemented (and subsidized) to reclaim the far better qualities of wood squandered with abandon in days of yore….
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Re: Wood bank

Postby mulk » 24 Feb 2015, 10:50

Oh dear! I guess this might be construed as a political posting…..
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Re: Wood bank

Postby TrimTheKing » 24 Feb 2015, 12:25

Not necessarily Mulk, just people are at work over here so forum is always quieter during the day.

Don't take the political posting rules personally, it's a woodworking forum and we want to keep it that way, that's all.

Politics is an emotive and divisive subject and best kept to the specialist forums dedicated to its discussion, that's all. Nothing personal.

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Re: Wood bank

Postby 9fingers » 24 Feb 2015, 12:37

Not sure if we have wood banks as such in UK.

There are certainly builders reclamation yards where you can pick up things like matching tiles and bricks to use on a project and you sometimes find timber there.
We have also had recent references to specialist who deal in massive timber beams reclaimed from old buildings that have had to be taken down.

I try and reuse timber when I can but not every project is sympathetic to having screw/nail holes visible.

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Re: Wood bank

Postby Stargazer » 24 Feb 2015, 13:11

There are some local initiatives in the UK.....one near me is

http://www.oxfordwoodrecycling.org.uk
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Re: Wood bank

Postby Andyp » 24 Feb 2015, 14:20

Nice idea Ian, I hope it deserves to succeed.
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Re: Wood bank

Postby mulk » 25 Feb 2015, 01:26

Nice to see the Abindon project, I gather it's mainly construction material though.

One used to find exotics in surprising forms around here, palates from south Asia, for example, were often made of local hardwoods. I have aslso been hoarding some 6"x7" teak for about 20 years; 2 12'ers and 2 8'ers. I got that foe a song and a dance from my local salvage yard http://urbanore.com , because nobody knew what it was or wanted to lift it ! It was partly for a mantle piece and fire surround, but I guess it'll go to the Woodbank now. Old growth redwood can still be found and reclaimed, although the more well known sources like old water tanks are thoroughly exploited now.

What about all those old oaks and such that blew down in the hurricane in U.K. awhile back ? Did anyone salvage that ? I had half a mind to come back then with an Alaskan mill and plank-up as much as I could store and season.
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Re: Wood bank

Postby big soft moose » 11 Mar 2015, 10:09

I (well not personally - I'm a ranger team leader for the national trust) spent about £1500 in one of our oak woodlands on extraction and planking after the storms in february 2014 - stocking us up with enough green oak for site furniture for the next several years (some of it was absolutely beautiful burr - but we didn't realise that until it had all been planked to 3" thick... I can feel some bowls coming on out of off cuts though)

However that site aside, the trouble with a lot of the windblow though was

a) stress cracks from being blown down with branches attached rather than felled in a controlled manner, and

b) location - theres enough Ash (much of it olive) to keep a turner happy for the next millenia , and heat the house for about 5 years, on the top of branscombe - however its halfway down a muddy 1 in 2 slope and you can't get a 4x4 or even a tractor anywhere near it and its too steep for heavy horses to work safely, so i guess it will stay there till it rots which seems an awful shame. ( I toy with the idea of carrying an alaskan mill in - but that will have to be a summer job as all thre planks ewould have to be carried out manually)

I also filled the work log store, my log store, all our local tenants log stores, our volunteers log stores, and the car boot of a passing stranger with a combination of oak branch wood and logged up montery pine for firewood, from our more accessible sites and I still have a huge heap of oak logs left on site to shift

(incidentally if anyone is in the east devon area , i'm happy to talk about them taking some for a donation to the trust - unfortunately due to access issues its mostly been ringed up so it will only really interest turners , or those seeking firewood)
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