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Busy Saturday

Doug

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Only just had time to upload a few photos from Saturday when I got chance to go get some timber.
I'd had a call earlier in the week that the sawmill I use were starting to cut up an Olive Ash tree trunk I was interested in, as I needed to pick up some other Ash I'd had them plank for me back in November 2012 I decided it would be a good chance to kill 2 birds with one stone.

This is the Ash, 12' long 2" thick the bottom planks are about 18" wide, this is destined to be a dining room table & chairs.

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This is the rather beautiful rippled Olive Ash.

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I went for the section of trunk on the right approximately 8' x 20" x 14" the square holes being where nails had had to be cut out before initial sawing, this section had the least nails, only 2, but hell still loads of useable timber & with a bit of luck it will be planked this coming week.

After dropping off the Ash I went over to look at some Walnut, I'd been worried about how much it was going to cost but in the end I needn't have worried, this is what I came away with.

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Stored here temporarily as the rain was torrential when I picked it up I will let it dry a little while & then seal the ends. It turned out that the tree had been blown down in the recent winds in a grave yard, they couldn't get machinery to it so it was cut up like this so it could be easily carried away between the graves.
There was quite a lot of rot in some of the tree but fortunately there saw still quite a bit of decent nicely figured wood.

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No major shakes which was a surprise as I'd been told Walnut can be affected badly with them, this was the worst.

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& a bit of a surprise a burr

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It will be interesting to see how things develop as it all dries, at worst I'll have a lot of pen blanks, but hopefully I should end up with some quite useable blanks & even possibly a couple of planks, only time will tell.
 

paulm

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Ooooo Wow, that is some nice wood there. I look forward to seeing some things made from that Doug.
 

Grump

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I think I just had an organism looking at those pictures.
I have dribbled all over my desktop need to wipe my chin now.
Drain help me I am an old man not used to this excitement init?
 

Jim

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You lucky Ba*%^&*d :thumbs:

That Walnut does look good Doug, i can foresee some very nice bowls in a year or two ... :winking:
 
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