Jeffrey Fusaro
03-26-2007, 12:03 PM
on saturday morning, i went back to the area where the tree cutting crews had been working all week. i knocked on one door and asked if i could collect some wood from the homeowner's front yard. he told me that all the wood had already been promised to family - for burning. i mentioned that i wasn't going to burn it, but instead i was making turnings from the few pieces that i collected. his face lit up. he told me to take what i wanted. i'll be making something nice for him and his wife.
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the yard had a huge silver maple tree that had been partially taken down. the tree was 36"+ in diameter. the homeowner's told me that the tree had been planted in 1947, according to one of the neighbors. there was also a large pine and large willow tree. i collected three maple crotches and three willow crotches. i took them home, drove my pick-up around the backyard and rolled the logs out of the truck bed and down onto the back patio.
that afternoon i rented a chain saw for the remainder of the day and all day sunday - a stihl ms390 with a 20" bar. wow! what a monster! :eek:
it was love at first slice! :D
i spent all afternoon on both saturday and sunday making bowl blanks and disposing of mountains of mulch.
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i did learn a lot doing this... it ain't as easy as it looks. the saw got heavy, quick! trying to figure out where to cut a crotch piece was tricky, since there were multiple piths and they ran in all directions. and, it took a lot longer to cut all that wood than i ever imagined.
all in all, i'm glad that i took the time to do this. but, i'm not eager for a repeat performance any time soon - at least not on this scale. i wasn't even able to cut all the wood that i collected. some of it was just to big and heavy deal with, once i got tired. now i have 45 bowl blanks to be roughed out and/or sealed to prevent checking.
better get busy...
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thanks for looking!
61137
the yard had a huge silver maple tree that had been partially taken down. the tree was 36"+ in diameter. the homeowner's told me that the tree had been planted in 1947, according to one of the neighbors. there was also a large pine and large willow tree. i collected three maple crotches and three willow crotches. i took them home, drove my pick-up around the backyard and rolled the logs out of the truck bed and down onto the back patio.
that afternoon i rented a chain saw for the remainder of the day and all day sunday - a stihl ms390 with a 20" bar. wow! what a monster! :eek:
it was love at first slice! :D
i spent all afternoon on both saturday and sunday making bowl blanks and disposing of mountains of mulch.
611406113961138
i did learn a lot doing this... it ain't as easy as it looks. the saw got heavy, quick! trying to figure out where to cut a crotch piece was tricky, since there were multiple piths and they ran in all directions. and, it took a lot longer to cut all that wood than i ever imagined.
all in all, i'm glad that i took the time to do this. but, i'm not eager for a repeat performance any time soon - at least not on this scale. i wasn't even able to cut all the wood that i collected. some of it was just to big and heavy deal with, once i got tired. now i have 45 bowl blanks to be roughed out and/or sealed to prevent checking.
better get busy...
61141
thanks for looking!