Reply to Posted Questions
Here are responses to posted questions or comments:
"Does the wood stink?" ... No ... has a good wood smell.
"Did you turn and finish that green?" ... Turned it 8 months after cutting the branch off of the tree.
"Looks like you sawed the log cross-wise ... would have been easier to cut it lengthwise." .... Actually, I did cut the branch log billets in half lengthwise in a ripping cut. Perhaps I've misunderstood the comment??
"How old is the tree that the branch came from ?" ... Don't know; the base of the tree is ~15" dia. Here's a photo of the broken branch the day after a windstorm brought it down last spring. The fracture area was riddled with ant holes so that's why it didn't hold up to the wind. Because of the long fracture and ant-riddled area, I only got ~4' of usable log billets out of the largest section of broken branch.
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