I was contacted by a home owner who said they have a maple burl and was I interested.
We after 6 hours of planning cutting and then the crane, the monster burl is in our yard.

My wife Theresa is there to show the sheer size of this burl.

8’ diameter and 10,000 lbs. Wow. So I need your help. do you know of a mall, hotel, lodge or resort that would like this as a display piece or large lamp post?

We will be pressure washing the bark off and can hollow it out for the client.

$6000 as is!

Any hoo I just wanted to show the big burl I got yesterday.

Be blessed
Greg
541-226-4449
www.oregonBurls.com

PS My fingers are healing up just fine and thank you for everyone’s comments and concerns. You are a blessing!

The 1st picture is listed on ebay with no bids yet. Starts at $10. Click to see!

Spent 12 hrs just to load it. My team did not have the word “QUIT” in their vocabulary. Grueling work but good work.

thanks for looking!
Greg
www.OregonBurls.com

Simple word of advise which many of you can attest too.

Keep your tools sharp and use a push stick! Lets say it all together now!

Keep your tools sharp and use a push stick!
Keep your tools sharp and use a push stick!
Keep your tools sharp and use a push stick!
Keep your tools sharp and use a push stick!
Keep your tools sharp and use a push stick!
Keep your tools sharp and use a push stick!

That’s enough. Now I just need to do it.
My blade was a 1.2 hook. very fortunate.
It looks bad but by the grace of God I missed my tendons and vanes and bone!
just 25 stitches. Yahoo!

. Check it out. Oregon Burls

I took a trip to the beach for wood yesterday and that I will share some lessons that I have learned throughout the years of harvesting off the beach.

Harvesting beach wood for turning or your wood project is a lot of work but you know how we are… Yah we are like kids in a candy store. We will beige, borrow or steal to get our candy. Well hopefully not steal. I like beach wood because it is more stable than green wood. It has been soaking and drying and soaking and drying for sometimes years.

There are places on the Oregon coast that you can take a chain saw and cut what you want without permits. Many cut for fire wood but there are a few of us who see more value in the beach wood. You can find burl, curly wood, fiddle back wood, flame figure and lots of spalted woods. The trick with the spalted woods is trying to figure out what kind of wood it is. I will have to right and article on identifying wood from the beach some time later. But for now I will stick with the subject.

Beach wood or drift wood comes with a lot of baggage. You know like your second cousin’s nephew but we won’t go there. Beach wood is covered in sand. That is a no brainer but how do you deal with the sand on the surface of the wood and in the deep cracks and splits. Sand for obvious reasons dull anything sharp tool that you put to it. It will tare up your chain saw chains not to mention your bar, tare up your band saw blades and your turning tools. So how to you get to the minimum dulling of your tools from the beach to your lathe?

• • Make sure you have your hearing, eye and hand protection.
• • Make sure that you bring your tools and chain sharpener. ( I forgot my gas and oil so a little extra cost there)
• • Make sure that you use appropriate bar oil. You don’t to be skimping on the oil especially in sand.
• • I will never let my blade hit the sand that the log is laying on. Brush off any sand that you can see on the log.
• • I will only to 90 degree cuts to the log and with the grain cuts to the log.
• • Never cut down a crack (that is where sand works its way in. I will cut along side of the crack and then trim it off with my band saw when I get to the shop.

The reason for the 90 degree and along the grain cut is to get into the good wood. You will get past the surface sand quickly when you use just these to angles. I try and use these to cuts even off the beach. It is easier on your saw and less work for you.

This last trip I got off the beach about 3000 lbs by myself in about a half a day. I guess that is the old Alaska fishermen in me that just says “get it done” happened.

So when I get the wood home or to my shop I have for the most part clean wood or easily trimmable (is this a word. LOL!)blocks where I can avoid the sand. So Yesterday I only dulled one chain because I was first of all fortunate and second I was careful of where and what I cut.

Free of Sand! Yahoo!

Hope this helps

God Bless
Greg
541-226-4449

www.oregonburls.com

I am offering exclusively to LJs frees shipping at www.oregonburls.com

Here is the scoop!
Orders over $75 I will pay for shipping excluding slab or heavy items (only in the USA).
Email me with what you would like and I will invoice you and give you free shipping.
Dont forget to sign up for the monthly wood give away.
greg@oregonburls.com
Please spread the word

Merry Christmas!

For all of you who would like free burl please register at Oregon Burls. At the end of every month Oregon Burls will be giving away a nice piece of figured or burled wood. Again you must register on the home page.

Also Oregon Burls is creating a Lumber Jocks Page where there will be special pricing and free shipping just for LJs

Sept Give away is a 8×8x5 1/2 Spalted Maple Burl

Please share this!

I will not give you any more info but remember I work with burls at Oregon Burls. So you may have read my short article a little while ago on burling. However this is not a burl…

So How did this happen is my question to you. This is fun stuff!
Explanation to come at the end of the day or tomorrow more.