My nephew told me yesterday afternoon, that a tree had been blown over during the very high winds we had 2 days ago, and he thought it was a Yellowwood tree. Needless to say, I jumped into the car and sped off to confirm his suspicion. Unfortunately he was wrong, it was a Wild Plum tree (Harpephyllum Caffrum).
It fell over outside our local court about 80 metres from where a Wild Plum had fallen over about 2 years ago. Fortunately for me, when that previous one fell, the council’s chainsaw was out of action and they happily accepted my offer to cut it up and remove it for them. I have already used some of that previous load, but I had to cut it into manageable (short) pieces as I didn’t have a Slabbing Jig at that time.
This time I have my home made Alaskan Jig all ready to slab the tree in situ
so today I’ll be off to town to harvest a good amount of slabs as long as I can handle, hopefully at least 2 metres long each.
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I promise to post pics of the operation, but for now I only have a couple of pics of the tree on the ground.
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Here’s my foot for visual scale.
-- I may be schizophrenic, but at least I have each other.
9 comments so far
notottoman
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posted 79 days ago
Good score..
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HalDougherty
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posted 79 days ago
How about some detailed pictures of your Alaskan mill? I need one, only I don’t have a welder… Looks like you bolted yours together.
-- Hal, Tennessee http://www.first285.com
woodworm
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posted 79 days ago
I feel like comming to help you cutting the tree, if I can fly!
-- masrol, kuala lumpur, MY.
Jimthecarver
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posted 79 days ago
I second the request for the mill…. I do weld and would like to see how its made. I would put it on my to do list.
Nice score!
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scrappy
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posted 79 days ago
Nice score. Can’t wait to see the wood that you rescue from this.
Keep us posted.
Scrappy
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PG_Zac
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posted 78 days ago
For those who have requested the design both here and on PM, I’ll get the details up on a new post in a couple of days. It won’t happen today as I’ll be out of town on business.
Cheers
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a1Jim
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posted 78 days ago
That’s going to be a lot of wood
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PG_Zac
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posted 75 days ago
I have just posted the next part in this series
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PG_Zac
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posted 67 days ago
The Alaskan Mill Details are HERE
-- I may be schizophrenic, but at least I have each other.