ROOTSXROCKS
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About 7 years ago, A client called with an Oak limb down. I was in the landscape business but had a couple of tree monkeys working for me, so I took the challenge and bought my 394.
This tree was HUGE my guess is the base of this tree is about 8-10 feet.
the portion that broke was 20 feet up the trunk the chain link fence in the picture is 6 feet and the wall 8 feet.
my first concern was getting the thing on down to the ground without breaking anything or anybody and with a lift and a lot of experience moving heavy objects we did just fine.
I kept that huge broken piece in my pasture far a couple of years before selling my old place then I trimmed it down with the 394. the scrap produced some incredible brown oak " burl? " and I have had the chunk sitting around under cover for 5 years. waiting for the capacity to shave off more veneer and or decide what to do with it .
after returning from my recent milling adventure in CO. I came home and used my portable plane and some grinding disk and a little flesh and blood.to polish up the chunk, so as to better ***** the possibilities.
Of course I want to get the maximum use out of this wood and even the smallest scrap could be put to use as turnings. but I continue to see a lyre or a harp. something that can maintain the sheer massive feel of the wood.
this chunk weighs every bit of 300 pounds. and is hard like a rock. I'm guessing this limb was 200 years old and the tree maybe 300 the compressed wood is like stone even when sliced to 1/8 inch and very strong.
the end is marked with white were the pith is and the pencil lines are the direction of the pith it comes out the other side about were the white dot is. for the most part the grain is gnarled.
If I were to cut out a lyre it would all be from one side of the log so I think it may be stable. but the question is how do I cut it to save the most dimension in the scrap.
any thought on the whole piece would be appreciated .
This tree was HUGE my guess is the base of this tree is about 8-10 feet.
the portion that broke was 20 feet up the trunk the chain link fence in the picture is 6 feet and the wall 8 feet.
my first concern was getting the thing on down to the ground without breaking anything or anybody and with a lift and a lot of experience moving heavy objects we did just fine.
I kept that huge broken piece in my pasture far a couple of years before selling my old place then I trimmed it down with the 394. the scrap produced some incredible brown oak " burl? " and I have had the chunk sitting around under cover for 5 years. waiting for the capacity to shave off more veneer and or decide what to do with it .
after returning from my recent milling adventure in CO. I came home and used my portable plane and some grinding disk and a little flesh and blood.to polish up the chunk, so as to better ***** the possibilities.
Of course I want to get the maximum use out of this wood and even the smallest scrap could be put to use as turnings. but I continue to see a lyre or a harp. something that can maintain the sheer massive feel of the wood.
this chunk weighs every bit of 300 pounds. and is hard like a rock. I'm guessing this limb was 200 years old and the tree maybe 300 the compressed wood is like stone even when sliced to 1/8 inch and very strong.
the end is marked with white were the pith is and the pencil lines are the direction of the pith it comes out the other side about were the white dot is. for the most part the grain is gnarled.
If I were to cut out a lyre it would all be from one side of the log so I think it may be stable. but the question is how do I cut it to save the most dimension in the scrap.
any thought on the whole piece would be appreciated .
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