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Title: Spending time in the shop...
Post by: isawlogs on March 06, 2013, 07:46:33 PM

... making little things from nothing.  :)

Sprucebunny found this horse shoe when she came for a visite, we sawed some Butternut and also a few Ash logs. After the sawing I showed her an old rock foundation where once was a building. Well she knew I had a metal detector and off she was on a mission.
     
Lucky horse shoe plaque.   Never let your luck run out.  :)



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  Another little nothing put together with some limbs from the stove wood mission. Frame is Butternut sawed with Joan.



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Title: Re: Spending time in the shop...
Post by: sprucebunny on March 06, 2013, 07:52:23 PM
I love the coat rack  8) You are so creative with little branches !
Butternut is very pretty.
Title: Re: Spending time in the shop...
Post by: WDH on March 06, 2013, 09:25:32 PM
I love the coat rack, too. Up there in the frozen glaciated North, one needs a lot of racks coats  :)  ;D.
Title: Re: Spending time in the shop...
Post by: SwampDonkey on March 07, 2013, 04:51:57 AM
Quote from: WDH on March 06, 2013, 09:25:32 PM
I love the coat rack, too. Up there in the frozen glaciated North, one needs a lot of racks coats  :)  ;D.


..... Stanfields, wool blankets, scarves.....  :D

Nice butternut wood Marcel. Do you have many butternut on your land? If so I was wondering if you noticed the trees producing many nuts. Mine seem to get a shoot moth of some type. :(

I made a frame out of butternut years ago for over the spot I throw wood in the cellar. Nailed some salvaged steel roofing on top.  It's lasted 16 years so far. :)
Title: Re: Spending time in the shop...
Post by: Lud on March 07, 2013, 09:24:05 AM
Good craft.  Glad to see the shoe oriented to keep the luck in.

Marcel,  I'm assuming you're keeping the nice rack since SB already has one?? ;D ;D :D :D
Title: Re: Spending time in the shop...
Post by: isawlogs on March 07, 2013, 04:19:06 PM

Bill, there was a lot of butternut here, but the blite(what ever it is ) has killed most of them, those not dead have many limbs falling and only a matter of time before they are caputte. I am trying to get as many as I can, saw them up before they are no good to use. Some don't have a straight enough peice to tehm to make any kind of log, then ya get those that are really to small to bother with. This one here that I am using was a nice log standing, but like many things , once opened up, was not all that great to look at, internal rot, bark inclusions...
  There are a few left on the edge of the fields that seam to be doing better then those in the forest, they had a real good crop summer before last. I have a few elms here also on the edge of the fields that have resisted so far.

  Lud, I aim to keep as much luck in that shoe as possible, Would you like to have one, ya might be needing of said shoe once the "rack" comes on.  ;) ;D :D
Title: Re: Spending time in the shop...
Post by: SwampDonkey on March 07, 2013, 04:27:06 PM
Thanks Marcel, didn't know you had the blight that bad. Still seem healthy around here. Out on the old farm though, they got iced up bad a few years ago. I saw a lot of big limbs broke off. That's the first time I seen ice hit them before and we do get ice in the trees sometimes. But these where kind of open on two sides from fields, so they get long limbs.