I started the day with the intention of harvesting a cherry tree, and a portion of a huge cottonwood from a wealthy patrons old grand-homeplace. I got the call from the patron before I got started on the other. After meeting the tree-service guys, while they were taking the tree down, I got three other calls on my cell from very high profile potential clients wanting to meet with me to talk about sculpture jobs. Humph, I must be doing something right, I just wish I knew what it was. He He.
Oh yea, I did manage to get the cherry down and the lower trunk home later this evening.
I hope you are all doing as well, Good night, Keith
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I've been in business for 10 year (not a woodworking one, a management consltancy) and I'm regularly amazed the way work shows up (or doesn't).
Out the blue I'll get a call that leads to big$ and I say "Where did that come from?"
Just remember to leave your customers delighted. They will tell other people and you'll have plenty of work.(in my case people change companies and bring me into the new company)...
Mark
Measure it with a micrometer, mark it with chalk, cut it with an ax.
Happy to hear you're doing well, Keith! Can you post some pics of your sculptures?
George.
Root,
Let us know how it turns out. Good luck!
What are you going to do with that cherry tree, do you use a mill, and where do you dry?
My first attempt was not too successful, I got insects, "Old house Borers" and the little buggers are still feasting on around 200bdft of Walnut. I guess there is a reason we pay lots of money for Kiln dried lumber.....
As It turns out, I am not too thrilled with the logs. The tree was so covered with vines, that I could not really tell how crooked it was, and by the time I got it down it was dark.
After geting back to it and un-covering it, I found both trunks to be pretty crooked, and the middle 6 - 8" is totally seperated by ring shake. I guess I will mill it with legs in mind. I don't mind getting some grain deviation for that purpose. I just hope it is not filled with reaction wood also. I don't expect that it is. The trunk was not leaning, and the canopy was fairly blanced, it just had some crook out and back in both of the log sections.This thing was so covered with about a dozen honey-suckle vines over 1" dia, clinging to the trunk, and wisteria hanging loosely out from that, that I spent more time cutting and tearing that away than I did cutting up the tree.I felt like I had to fight off a swarm of giant anicondas by the time I was through.
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