Paul Williams
09-02-2012, 10:15 PM
A friend lives near to a guy who brought home a bunch of black walnut including many trunk sections that were 3 to 4 feet across. After seeing it sit in his backyard for several weeks I asked my friend what the neighbor was going to do with it. He thought he was cutting it up to burn. So we talked to the neighbor. He gave me several sections of 6 to 10 inch branches, one large chunk and said I could come back for more. I figure I'll turn a bowl or something and take it and my trailer back for one or two of the large trunk sections.
Here is the stuff I brought home this trip, including my grandson holding the tape at just over two feet.
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Unfortunatelly the tree was cut down in July and not protected in anyway so there was a lot of waste cut off the ends of each piece, but I did get four large bowl blanks from the large piece and lots of smaller blanks. This wood had more yellow and green streaks than I have seen in walnut.
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And just for grins here is my helper practicing with the log loader. I forgot who posted the idea for this, but I loaded the large section by myself and it will come in handy when I go back for the bigger pieces.
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Here is the stuff I brought home this trip, including my grandson holding the tape at just over two feet.
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Unfortunatelly the tree was cut down in July and not protected in anyway so there was a lot of waste cut off the ends of each piece, but I did get four large bowl blanks from the large piece and lots of smaller blanks. This wood had more yellow and green streaks than I have seen in walnut.
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And just for grins here is my helper practicing with the log loader. I forgot who posted the idea for this, but I loaded the large section by myself and it will come in handy when I go back for the bigger pieces.
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