Harvesting wood by myself

[Lightning bolt]

Ya some of eucalyptus grow frighteningly fast. Planted a small one last yr which has grown so quick it lying horizontally as not strong enough to support itself!

 

[djellworth]

Love the pictures. Keep them coming. I especially look forward to the " white van for sale, one careful owner - light use only" post.

 

[Billy_wizz]

There are a lot of eucalyptus species but they tend to have very limited uses. I have a feeling it isn't even good firewood.

I've heard it makes good firewood but has to be split as soon as it's felled

 

[Roland]

That was me, last year. This year I have a big length of almond - not sure whether to plank it or use for bowl blanks.

What about cutting the top end, where the interesting grain will be, to make bowl blanks? You can then plank the rest.

 

[Roland]

My experience on eucalyptus is that it creates voids as it dries. I was hoping to turn some, but it’s now on the firewood pile.

 

[marcros]

I've heard it makes good firewood but has to be split as soon as it's felled

you may well be right, I was passing on information that I had heard 2nd hand which looks like it probably isnt correct.

 

[Keith 66]

I cut a fairly big eucalyptus for father in law a few years back. Once dry it burnt extremely well with terrific heat, strange thing was it appeared to burn like a lump of charcoal staying in one piece & then vanishing quickly after a while.

 

[Billy_wizz]

you may well be right, I was passing on information that I had heard 2nd hand which looks like it probably isnt correct.

Probably someone who left it too long before they tried to split it as I've heard that if left to long it almost impossible to split

 

[Michal]

Hello!
Milling took longer because strong winter came here. Not to much dark inside but we were suprised anyway. After cutting down tree we thought it will be less.

So far we got around 2m3 of walnut. Most of it thickness is 5cm.