The burl video

[cowgirl8]

My idea worked great. Luckily I have a guy who can make my ideas reality...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRlOff_F3G4

 

[cowgirl8]

I know the video is not a great DIY video. But if you're handy with a chainsaw I think you'll get it. It may spark a idea that improves my idea. Husband says he has a big root ball he wants to use this on. It would be perfect on a root ball.

 

[bball]

Pretty clever country engineering. Would love to see the finished products.

 

[Bright Raven]

Magnifico. How will you finish the surface? I assume that some of the highs and lows need to be planed down somehow.

Linda, is that your husband in the blue cape shirt?

 

[cowgirl8]

That's our son. My husband is the guy with the hazmat mask on..
I think it went into the kiln today. I have a hand planer I can even the tops out, although they are pretty good except where its doty. We plunged the saw into the doty part and the saw walked a little as it started, but when it hit hard wood it straightened out. I may cut out the doty part, which is the original part of the tree, or if it dries hard, i'll put resin in it.

 

[wbvs58]

V interesting. So what happens now?

Ken

 

[cowgirl8]

V interesting. So what happens now?

Ken

Its in the kiln. I'm guessing it will stay in there a couple weeks. Then, we'll see how much checking it did and how the doty part dried... We're planning to make a dining room table out of it. Maybe even a kitchen bar. There is a lot of wood there. Our son in law makes knives, he'll get all the scraps.

 

[Jogeephus]

Neat. Should make a good table top and a bunch of other stuff.

 

[ohiosteve]

I bet those will make some awesome tabletops and stool tops. You might have already said, but how thick are the slices?

 

[ohiosteve]

It would be really cool to make a toilet seat out of some, both the part you sit on and the lid you flip down. Honestly that might be a million dollar idea, I know I'd buy one.

 

[cowgirl8]

I bet those will make some awesome tabletops and stool tops. You might have already said, but how thick are the slices?

The first few smaller ones we cut at 3 inches. The bigger ones are 4 inchs thick. We have around 1/3rd of the burl left to cut up but will wait to see how the slabs we got dry.....