Chopping down a medium/large oak tree

#1

Hi All,

At one point in the future at my flats we’re going to have to chop down our oak tree, which is sad because it’s a lovely tree but its roots are apparently undermining the building.

This would most likely result in a large amount of wood. I’ll talk and see what’s going on that front. This is just a bit of notification, it’d be a while before the poor dear is felled. I’d like to make myself something from some of the wood, but in general I feel others in the space may find the wood useful?

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#2

Thanks it will be very useful. I would use some.

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#3

I think this came up before and the challenge is that fresh wood needs to be stored for 1-2 years before it can be used with tools in the woodshop - if my memory serves me right.

#4

Hi @Maz fantastic. Please let me know, I’m using oak tree for making sculptures so fresh wood is kind of ideal for carving. Thank you :pray:

#5

honestly we should be able to find somewhere in my flats where we can store some wood for a couple of years, I’ve basically had a bunch of planks outside of mine stored that long. The only thing otherwise is that we’d need to see like who has bagsies, what the aborists/surgeons do, and I am not gonna carry some greenwood to the space (we’re near brixton academy)

#6

good news and bad news!
Bad news, no wood available
Good news, tree has been deemed safe by an arbourist! World’s angriest squirrel will stil have a home!

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#7

Well great news!