The Huge Broad leaf Maple had to come down ,,, As a maple gets to maturity it is huge and this one was massive. There was a lot of wood to be processed. Some of it I am milling into slabs and air drying for furniture making. Some carved into bowls and some into spoons,,, Some I am riving into chair legs and rungs,,, Bowls are a great way to utilize large blocks of the maple. This tree had 4 large stems 20 or so inches across that makes a big bowl,,, had I gotten to it in time,,, these blocks are huge ,,,
This is some of the stems and branches ,,, in the photo is one of the tree removel guys hauling some of the debre out of the way for the next branches, blocks and stems to come down,,,fast work the process took all day and that is a dangerous job these guys do it every day,,, a lot of experience and good planing makes it happen quickly,,, worth every pennie to have professionals do this type of work,,,
These blocks where checking so quickly after they hit the ground ,,, first one diaginal split across the end grain then in short order they developed other checking,,, so the designs for the bowls become reduced to 1/4 sections of the blocks and from large limbs I get some 1/2 block fliches,,, At this point I don't want to cut out a bowl blank from the centre of the logs I would rather have slabs,,, though as I buck the logs to lenghth for slabing I may still yet get a couple large bowl blanks,,, The key to getting the most out of a tree is to be prepared to process immidiatly after the tree is down and i got some great pieces at that point then it is getting as much done on the wood before it checks up so bad that it is then is only good for fire wood,,, leaving the wood in long lengths when possible extends the time frame of processing,,, I thought I may have more time then I did as it worked out,,, Though I still have many bowls to do most won't be a big as I was hopeing for...There is the huge stump yet to be done though,,, and the slabs are great,,, stacks of branches for spoons,,,
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