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General => For Sale, Hire, Wanted, User Classifieds, Sale Bargains => Topic started by: b0ogaloo on January 01, 2012
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I've bought myself a lathe and I'm after some timber .. hardwoods such as Beech . Birch, Chestnut, Sycamore, Oak ,Ash etc .. not pine or any conifers
if anyone has any trees or big branches (10" + diameter) that come down in the next storms and you want rid of them I 'll saw them up and take them away
Cheers
Andy
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Darn thougt my chrimbo tree got an easy way out there lol.
Saying that just noticed an uprooted tree in a garden lying against others....this is a fully grown tree, will try and get you a google earth for it. ok house to the west of Monkstown ave and north of fernlea park try searching bt36
best of luck :)
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Darn thougt my chrimbo tree got an easy way out there lol.
Saying that just noticed an uprooted tree in a garden lying against others....this is a fully grown tree, will try and get you a google earth for it. ok house to the west of Monkstown ave and north of fernlea park try searching bt36
best of luck :)
lol if your Xmas tree is 10" + diameter ye must live at the city hall :D
Andy
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Dont be silly Andy I rent the city hall out to all those freeloaders :)
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I was on here a few months ago trying to give a very large native Irish Ash tree a good home, must have been 70 foot tall with a beautiful dark heart wood, Ended up throwing most of it into a skip, Heart breaking, Hope to be taking down a Beech on Monday on the Glen Rd in Belfast, Its going to a wood burning stove apparently, hehe, about seven off shoots approx 400mm to 500mm wide and about the height of a telegraph pole, wires and all attached( but that's my problem ) Take what you want, a small example of what you eventually turn out is all I ask.
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Pm sent
thanks
Andy
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Should've said .. I'm turning bowls and platters, hence the "10 plus diameter logs I'm after
This is a piece of cherry I rescued from a friends woodpile
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I haven't used a lathe in 20 odd years , but its coming back slowly
Andy
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Got your pm, in retrospect on getting the tape measure out (goes back to my girl chasing days) it may have been closer to 300mm but not certain, job not confirmed till tomorrow so ill get back to you here, beautiful work, wasn't expecting that, an egg cup would have done me.
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This big beauty blew down in the storm the other day, its in the woods beside my house in Lisburn. Loads of 10" plus branches broken off lying on the forest floor. Two other trees down beside it but hard to get at because they fell into the Lagan.
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Probably wrong without seeing the leaf or bud but looking at the bark and length of it i think its a Beech, That is such a sad sight but beautiful too in its own way, hug a tree folks they don't last forever, embrace history in one go. I think someone owns that tree but i will help to remove it for a good cause. under cover of darkness of course. ;)
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A few of my turned pens
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There's eight big beech tree's down in Woodburn forest , and they'll just lie there and rot away , the forestry service has no interest in them,,, its a shame because Beech is one of my favourite hardwoods
Gardener .. 12" is fine that would generally equate to a 6"-7" diameter bowl
I've mostly been turning with greenwood. the problem with it is as it dries it distorts, so a round bowl becomes oval . Once i cut the branches into bowl blanks it takes up to a year for them to dry out . thankfully i've lots of storage space
Andy
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Cool pens Matt nice work!
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wow I am blown away, my Dad worked with a metal lathe and worked within a thousandth of a inch, He bought and smuggled in a wood woodworking lathe when he retired so my mum wouldn't see, I tried to talk him out of it it at the time because I knew he would get in trouble but he went behind my back too. Unfortunately he didn't last long enough to use it, women ehh
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PM sent b0ogaloo, what length would like it cut into?, all you have to do is show up, all the cutting will be done and we will even give you a hand loading it. The client is ok with you taking some away but have to leave some for his neighbors stove.
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PM sent