The tree kind, spent the day creating bike store/tumble dryer housing/wood store, so much nicer to work with than masonry products! That is all
Are you one of these wood touchers who can't resist stroking anything made of wood whilst informing all those around you that it's apparently "a lovely piece of wood" ?
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you can spend your time stroking a lovely frame as well
Wood is good! Bloody expensive these days tho!
Bloody expensive these days
It does'nt grow on trees you know.......I'll get me coat.
Having used somewhere in the region of £50,000 worth in the last 4 weeks, I'd have to agree on the cost!
That's gotta be one massive bonfire.........I've got me coat,I'm leaving now.
What you building transapp??
Hardwood orangries, and oak framed buildings, quite a few of them!
Nice! Spend a lot of time working with concrete and steel so the odd bit of wood is nice!!
The missus will be working with wood later...
... Already in the taxi
WTF is an orangry? I have only ever seen one and asked if it had oranges in. The answer was no and when I suggested that in the absence of oranges its a green house the guy went apoplectic.
It's a building originally designed for growing tropical fruit in the uk climate. They tend to be studier built than a conservatory, however the main feature is a flat section of roof around the walls going into a lantern roof.
Edit -cant get an image to work on the phone.
Ok so its not a big greenhouse. Will have to look at the design differences as may be in the market for similar in the next 2 years? AKA to me at least a conservatory? But could be a summer house up the garden. Will investigate 0rangry as an alternative!
Working at the cutting end of trees, and doing a bit of our own milling, I can't quite fathom the cost of timber in the builders merchants and diy places, because we aren't getting anywhere near what they sell it for and we supply the raw material.
I'm now on the "Firewood" business. Sometimes it is a shame to see such lovely lumps knowing they're going to end up on the fire.
But we need to keep warm! It staggers me that we can get quality kiln dried wood delivered from the other side of Europe cheaper than UK supplied!
The deathbed conversion of the concreteophile 😉
Are you one of these wood touchers who can't resist stroking anything made of wood whilst informing all those around you that it's apparently "a lovely piece of wood" ?
Yeah, you have a problem with that?
Not really, some of my best friends are wood touchers. I'm pretty liberal and open minded about stuff like that.
Resin saturated linear cellulose cells...........God was dead clever! Still one of the best materials for fatigue.
I've just ridden through the Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park in northern California through groves of giant redwoods. For tree lovers, this is pretty close to heaven. The Avenue of Giants are still to come. 😯
mcmoonter, surely you have enough firewood already, no?
The only woodworking project I have is to create a handle for a bushcraft hand forged blade I've bought. I have a small block of yew that's just the right size, it's cutting and shaping it accurately with no real bench or fixed tools that's challenging, I have the shape correct, I just need to cut it square.
A little winter project.
Then there's the sheath, which is probably going to be wood as well.
Going to be interesting...
I was musing the other day how different the entire human race would be if wood wasn't flammable.
For tree lovers, this is pretty close to heaven.
Not all tree lovers are automatically wood lovers. I love trees - big beautiful huggable things, but I'm not so keen on timber - dusty smelly stuff imo.
Really ernie?? Whilst sawing down the grain today it released the most delightful aroma!
Anyone want any lime wood for carving?
molgrips - I definitely would! How much are we talking? Youre not based near northumberland are you by any chance?
Northumberland.. well I'm in Cardiff, just down the road in interplanetary terms!
I've got two fairly large log pieces that've been sat in my (warm) garage for ooh, 5 years or so. A tad large to post though! Crappy pic:
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Maybe 15" across and about 2'6 long? There are two.
While all the wood-sniffers are convened...... Everything I build is for super-short duty; film sets, exhibitions and so on never really get involved in real wood. But want to build some large gates for my mum so thinking about timber thats more stable and weatherproof than the crap pine I buy by the kilometer.
Plan at present is a neat minimalist welded frame, hot dipped then timber slats, aranged front and back of the frame so theres privacy but the wind can blow through. Want something stable enough that I can use is a fairly thin section to keep the weight sensible. Quite fancy something self coloured/untreated so cedar maybe or oak? Whats recommended
Whilst sawing down the grain today it released the most delightful aroma!
I had to sand and shape about a ton of oak whisky cask staves, about 40 years worth of sherry and whisky soaked into them, for a bit of prototype street furniture. Sweeping up binbags of boozy pot pouri at the end of each day. I made the offcuts into dominos which were quite tempting to lick.
THats a shame molgrips - that stuff looks excellent. Im sure theres a good project or three in there somewhere!
Always had a bit of a wood fetish myself. For years (much to the regret of my dear wife) I would collect 'nice' bits of wood. Everytime one of our trees was felled I just wouldnt be able to bring myself to let it go.. Had a shed stacked with weird shaped bits of oak and big solid blocks of cherry/pear.
Last years purchase of a wood burning stove soon put pay to my treasured collection 🙁
once you've got a fire place calorific value soon trumps sentimental value 🙂Last years purchase of a wood burning stove soon put pay to my treasured collection
I love it, especially when hand tools instead of power tools are used to work it. A few pics of a little shed I'm knocking up at the moment. The brief was to make the roof 'walkable' and the base rat proof...
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This reminds me I've got to build a compost heap frame 😥
Anyone driving from South Wales to Northumbria any time soon?