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Checked on my burl trees

David Wyke

David Wyke

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I check my burl trees a couple times a year to make sure they are alive and well and took a walk today to see how they were doing. I think they know I won’t cut them as long as they’re alive😁 and they’re still safe. I laid my pocket knife on a couple of them to show the size.
I did find that a couple large maples close to them had finally came down after being up rooted and leaning from the hurricane that came through a little over a year ago. They were too dangerous to cut when leaning but I knew they would fall eventually. Both are over 24” in diameter. One will yield a 12’ log and the other should be 20-30’ before it forks. Now I need to call in a few favors to help me get them out.

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David Wyke said:
Both are over 24” in diameter. One will yield a 12’ log and the other should be 20-30’ before it forks. Now I need to call in a few favors to help me get them out.
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You should have a logging arch then you would be able to get them out all by your self and you wouldn't need the snow cover.
 
Don Wattenhofer said:
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You should have a logging arch then you would be able to get them out all by your self and you wouldn't need the snow cover.
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These are in a small ravine so we will need to cut, chain, and drag them about 30’ to the top where my neighbors driveway is. I have a tractor with forks to move the logs but may need to use the neighbors large tractor to pull them up the ravine. He is always offering to help me get logs.
I would like to have a log arch for other areas of the property.
 
A really good plan be instead of an arch is a pulling mat. I harvested about thirty walnut crotches after a friends place was logged. A neighbor has a commercial drag mat that I borrowed and is rated for 2000lbs . I rolled the crotches on, strapped them down and drove them out with my side by side. It worked wonderful. On my own place I have a front and rear grapple for my tractor so I can handle anything here but the crotches were 150 miles away. You could cut the logs to6-8' length and pull them out with a four wheeler. It would make pulling them up a hillside pretty easy.
 
I guess you can say I have retired from processing big logs. The only thing I now I would process is nice burls or figured woods. I haven’t quit turning, but hit on some treasures in the last year. The first treasure was a friend in Kentucky had a lot of unprocessed wood that he gave me. I got a two pickup loads of walnut, butternut, pear, holly, and maple. Then a friend in Indiana was moving to a small house without a lot of room for storage. He told me he had a bunch of bowl blanks that I could have. So I have plenty of processed wood, but envy David’s burls for sure. I turn a couple to take to my cardiac rehab group when I am there for a doctors visit. Plenty to turn

I got two pickup loads of blanks, this is one of them.
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I didn’t know what to expect on the rough turned bowl blanks, was surprised on the number and quality of them. None were cored and all have tenons on them. All were sealed and dated and various sized up tho 20”. Mostly maple, cherry, walnut, white oak, and few other domestic woods. I got 223 bowl from him. I gave about 50 away to members of our turning club.
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William Rogers said:
I guess you can say I have retired from processing big logs. The only thing I now I would process is nice burls or figured woods. I haven’t quit turning, but hit on some treasures in the last year. The first treasure was a friend in Kentucky had a lot of unprocessed wood that he gave me. I got a two pickup loads of walnut, butternut, pear, holly, and maple. Then a friend in Indiana was moving to a small house without a lot of room for storage. He told me he had a bunch of bowl blanks that I could have. So I have plenty of processed wood, but envy David’s burls for sure. I turn a couple to take to my cardiac rehab group when I am there for a doctors visit. Plenty to turn

I got two pickup loads of blanks, this is one of them.
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I didn’t know what to expect on the rough turned bowl blanks, was surprised on the number and quality of them. None were cored and all have tenons on them. All were sealed and dated and various sized up tho 20”. Mostly maple, cherry, walnut, white oak, and few other domestic woods. I got 223 bowl from him. I gave about 50 away to members of our turning club.
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That’s a nice load of bowl blanks!!
I plan to keep working up logs into bowl blanks as long as I’m able. I told my wife we may need to buy a small bandsaw mill in a few years😁.
 
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