The Official Work Pictures Thread

[PCTREE]

That sucker aint tall but it sure is fat !! Bucket baby! (Im a crane Baby now)

 

[sawman]

Stupid fence!!

 

[sotc]

Yeah, she's a fatty. Guys didn't have to get out of the bucket

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Lotta tree in an itty nitty space

 

[stig]

I was just thinking, If I felled a locust that size, I'd have the whole street lined up with hopeful woodturners.

 

[sotc]

Even black locust? Psuedoacacia robinia?

 

[No_Bivy]

Locust looks cool turned. Looks viney

 

[stig]

Yup. Black locust.
It is a real good turning wood, and we don't have many species of hardwood to choose from, here.
Takes a nice stain from ammonia fuming, too.
You can make some really nice salad bowls from it.

A log like that, cut into large turning blanks would net me around a grand.
Most turners haven't the saws or experience to handle big wood, so they'll gladly pay to have it blocked out into blanks.
I've taught Martin and our other guy how to do it, they make some beer money that way.

Couple of years back, I got hired by a bunch of turners to block out a big windfallen maple, they had gotten for free.
They paid me a full days wages for driving down and piecing that out.
Of course, part of what they paid for, was 25 years experience in how to piece out a log in the best way for turning.

 

[flushcut]

Stig, Do you think there is a market for importing logs from the States? Just curious.

 

[stig]

Nope.
Shipping costs would kill it.
I looked into it in -99 when visiting Cali, because I thought it would be a good idea to ship a container full of wood home to my turning business.
No go.
We ship a LOT of wood to china, but that is because they return so many empty containers that shipping stuff that way is practically free.

A pity, really, because we could have set something fine up with all the members here.

 

[Raj]

I did electric motor work for a guy who was shipping machinery to some God forsaken place, he would have logs milled into what ever usable sizes (16 by 16 wide by 10ft long,or what have you) for use as "crating" to get around some sort of wood export fees and regulations of the time.

 

[August Hunicke]

My uncle from back East retired and sent me his saw…


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[sawman]

poke

 

[woodslinger]

 

[FireFighterZero]

Got a picture of Stig's big saw eh?

 

[MasterBlaster]

Sounds kinda kinky!

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Seen a lot of 48 dbh fir that one

 

[flushcut]

Nope.
Shipping costs would kill it.
I looked into it in -99 when visiting Cali, because I thought it would be a good idea to ship a container full of wood home to my turning business.
No go.
We ship a LOT of wood to china, but that is because they return so many empty containers that shipping stuff that way is practically free.

A pity, really, because we could have set something fine up with all the members here.

Gotcha!

 

[mistahbenn]

Its a crying shame all the wood I cut down just goes to the dump and fed into a big tub grinder. SHAME!

 

[BOTS]

Got a picture of Stig's big saw eh?

LOL! and thats a long bar for Denmark

 

[stig]

My uncle from back East retired and sent me his saw…



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[sotc]

 

[MasterBlaster]

Git up dat tree!!!

 

[sotc]

We is bossy! See Doug down there? We're fixing to blow the tops. Just waiting" Kyle to catch up, he's nervous in these big guys. Mines full of Indian paint fungus, he didn't want anything to do with this tree.

 

[BOTS]

Nice Willie! luv me some Furs!
go through them tops now we need more pics