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Look what the Cat dragged in:

Postby selectortone » 17 Jul 2018, 18:14

My daughter (Cat... see what I did there?) was looking out of her office window today and saw some council guys felling some beech trees in the road opposite. They cut them into manageable lumps and started to run them through a chipper. So she wandered out and chatted them up, told them her Dad was a wood turner and they chucked four pieces in the back of her car FOC. Blonde hair... blue eyes... one of the guys in her office said he bet they wouldn't do the same for him :mrgreen:

Woohoo! Free wood!

I have a big tub of PVA which I'm going to coat the ends with, and then I'll leave them for a few months until the worst of the wet is gone, then I'll bandsaw them up (That'll be fun... they are BIG, and each one weighs a flippin' ton - about a foot or more across and the same long, and one is about two foot long) and rough turn them. I'm lucky they didn't cut them into cheeses.

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Postby TrimTheKing » 17 Jul 2018, 18:45

Nice. Free stuff is always good!
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Postby Woodster » 17 Jul 2018, 18:58

Nice one, free wood is always good.
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Postby Dalboy » 18 Jul 2018, 17:49

Always a winner when wood is free. Now we will have to wait to see what you produce :twisted:
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Re: Look what the Cat dragged in:

Postby Rod » 18 Jul 2018, 18:18

Nice haul.

I stumbled across this this afternoon clearing away a lot of spare stuff from my shed rebuild:

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Mainly yew which I covered in candle wax a few years back. Given to me by my tree surgeon. A plastic compost bin full.

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Re: Look what the Cat dragged in:

Postby selectortone » 18 Jul 2018, 18:56

Nice! Yew is my favourite wood to turn. You can get a finish on it that's as smooth as glass.
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Postby RogerS » 18 Jul 2018, 21:40

Do you have to 'suit up' with yew? I'm told that it's very toxic.
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Postby selectortone » 18 Jul 2018, 22:27

RogerS wrote:Do you have to 'suit up' with yew? I'm told that it's very toxic.


I've never taken any extra precautions with yew and I'm still waking up not dead in the mornings.

It's true, parts of it are toxic - mainly the bark, if ingested. The Romans used boiled yew bark as a poison. Paradoxically, yew tea, made with other parts, is touted as a herbal remedy. The berries are apparently very tasty, but spit the seeds out because they are poisonous! (haven't tried them myself - that's according to my friend Vic aka Woodster)
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Postby Rod » 18 Jul 2018, 23:02

Yes the seeds are very toxic but not the flesh but I wouldn’t try eating them.
I have a friend who sells his yew hedge clippings to the pharmaceutical industry where they are used for making drugs.

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Postby Andyp » 19 Jul 2018, 06:40

That beech looks very clean Terry, I suspect you owe you daughter one now.
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Postby Andyp » 19 Jul 2018, 06:42

Is that how you dried it Rod? Waxed the ends then left it dustbin, lid on?
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Postby Rod » 19 Jul 2018, 08:29

Yes and forgot all about them, the bin was “hidden” by a load of pallets, wood from my old shed etc. I tidied up the area yesterday chopping up the wood to go to the tip.

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Postby Andyp » 19 Jul 2018, 13:09

Then I am a little surprised why they have not rotted with little or no airflow.
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Postby selectortone » 24 Jul 2018, 17:59

The logs were too big for my bandsaw, so a friend came round with his chainsaw yesterday and we sawed each log down the middle and liberally sealed the ends with PVA. It was a Workzone electric chainsaw from Aldi and I was a bit sceptical about how effective it would be but I was amazed - it ripped through the wood like the proverbial hot knife through butter. I'll be getting one next time Aldi have some in. Just the job!

(Screwfix do 5L of "No Nonsense PVA" for a tenner btw. Good vfm for a sealer IMHO)

The pieces are stored away now in plastic bags. Gave a few of them to my mate. I'll wait a few months until the worst of the wet is gone then rough turn them.

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Postby Dalboy » 24 Jul 2018, 18:23

Check them at least once a week to start with and turn the bags inside out so the bags dry as you will find moisture on the inside of them
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Postby selectortone » 24 Jul 2018, 18:25

Thanks Derek - good advice!
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Postby Rod » 24 Jul 2018, 19:14

Cannot see the pics on my phone

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Postby 9fingers » 25 Jul 2018, 13:32

Rod wrote:Cannot see the pics on my phone

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Curiously, I can see the picture on my iphone Rod but I'm using safari whereas i suspect you are using Tapatalk.

However I cannot see them on my Windows PC.

@ OP. We have set up a pretty rugged photo hosting system on this forum and not aware of any user platform that won't display the pictures so maybe you could try using our hosting instead?

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Postby selectortone » 25 Jul 2018, 15:45

9fingers wrote: @ OP. We have set up a pretty rugged photo hosting system on this forum and not aware of any user platform that won't display the pictures so maybe you could try using our hosting instead?


Bob,

I vaguely remember you setting this up after the photobucket meltdown, but forgot all about it!

Hopefully you see the pic now?
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Postby Rod » 25 Jul 2018, 18:55

Yes thanks

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Postby 9fingers » 26 Jul 2018, 09:27

selectortone wrote:
9fingers wrote: @ OP. We have set up a pretty rugged photo hosting system on this forum and not aware of any user platform that won't display the pictures so maybe you could try using our hosting instead?


Bob,

I vaguely remember you setting this up after the photobucket meltdown, but forgot all about it!

Hopefully you see the pic now?


Terry, I can't claim the credit for the photo upload coding, that was Mark's work, I just wrote the guide and helped with testing.

There are two stages. Uploading, which you are doing just fine and then subsequently placing the photo neatly into the test using the place online command. You will see the photos just stacked at the bottom of the post inside dotted boxes where they are waiting to be placed inline.

You can use the edit post button to try inline placement if you want to see the difference.

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Postby Andyp » 26 Jul 2018, 10:49

Terry, I am a little surprised that you have not cut the pith out of those logs. In my limited experience that is where cracks are very likely to appear while drying.
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Postby selectortone » 26 Jul 2018, 13:34

Andy, I sourced a lot of my timber when I started from the guy who gave me lessons. He lives in the New Forest where there's an ample supply! Some of it was in the form of half-trunks with bark still on, sawn down the middle and sealed at the ends, like I did with this wood. In my (also limited!) experience, if any cracks appeared they started at the outer edge and progressed inwards.
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Postby Andyp » 27 Jul 2018, 10:14

You have probably done more of this than me Terry. Whenever I have left the pith in radial cracks start to appear as well as from the outside. Whenever I leave the bark on I get problems with boring insects who I think feed on the cambium then bore into the wood to lay eggs. I won't use insecticide which I guess would help that problem.
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Postby Woodster » 27 Jul 2018, 10:19

I’ve seen you cat mate and there’s no way she could have dragged those in... :lol:
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