Knowledge You Can Build On — Est. 1998
maple tree
john lucas
Hated to do it but the maple tree next to the house ruined our septic line and was going to be a problem for the new line they are putting in so down it came. I was really excited after it fell because it looked like a lot of Ambrosia. Nope. Just the very first 20 inches. All the rest was around the pith as you can see in these other logs. I will cut a few bowl blanks and hollow blanks but mostly it will become fire wood. 
got it all split
john lucas
I did save about 10 smaller hollow vessel size blanks and few bowl blanks + 2 cowboy hat size blanks. I have a pile of wood about the size of a small compact car. Took me 5 yours of hard work. Not fun trying to get 20" diameter logs under the splitter and then shifting them a dozen times trying to get reasonable size fire logs. Of course now when my back decides I can do it I have to move all that clear across the yard to the log pile.
Re: got it all split
John K Jordan
>when my back decides I can do it I have to move all that clear across the yard to the log pile.
Maybe it's time to raffle some artwork by the famous John Lucas and buy a tractor with a front end loader. I can't get by without one here.
After watching Chris Ramsey I'm ready to try a hat myself. He makes it look so easy...
