So, I got a log...
Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2021 10:59 pm
This is easily the biggest Christmas present I've ever received!
All kidding aside, it wasn't a gift, so much as just something I've been searching for for every bit of the last year or so...a (near) perfectly straight log, of a specific species, of a minimum diameter.
I got the best of all three.
My in-laws have an ongoing "tree project" on their property for me to take care of over a number of years, and I took down one of the "problem trees" in the last few weeks...a 90' Tulipfera liriodendron (Common name Tuliptree or Tulip Poplar) with a PERFECTLY STRAIGHT bottom 25' or so. This past weekend, I went over to the 13.5' log I selected out of the trunk with all my ropes and blocks and hoisted the (conservatively) 1,800 lb. green log into the air and backed the Father-in-law's trailer under it to haul it to my place...
...and got to work!
At the end of day one, I'm about 1/3 de-barked, with quite a bit to go. Last time I posted a raw piece of wood on this forum, it took me three years to finish that project...and it was a MUCH smaller bit of wood. Fingers crossed this goes MUCH faster. Here goes nothing!
[Brownie points to whoever guesses what I'm doing with this thing]
All kidding aside, it wasn't a gift, so much as just something I've been searching for for every bit of the last year or so...a (near) perfectly straight log, of a specific species, of a minimum diameter.
I got the best of all three.
My in-laws have an ongoing "tree project" on their property for me to take care of over a number of years, and I took down one of the "problem trees" in the last few weeks...a 90' Tulipfera liriodendron (Common name Tuliptree or Tulip Poplar) with a PERFECTLY STRAIGHT bottom 25' or so. This past weekend, I went over to the 13.5' log I selected out of the trunk with all my ropes and blocks and hoisted the (conservatively) 1,800 lb. green log into the air and backed the Father-in-law's trailer under it to haul it to my place...
...and got to work!
At the end of day one, I'm about 1/3 de-barked, with quite a bit to go. Last time I posted a raw piece of wood on this forum, it took me three years to finish that project...and it was a MUCH smaller bit of wood. Fingers crossed this goes MUCH faster. Here goes nothing!
[Brownie points to whoever guesses what I'm doing with this thing]