Is it unethical to use wood if you are not prepared to kill it yourself?

#1

Sorry to steal a vegans argument! But we had a couple of trees that had grown too big and were stealing the light, shadowing our solar during the winter and blocking the satellite reception.

So a couple had to come down!

A nerve racking first ever use of a chainsaw and countless YouTube channels the felling went exactly as planned!

It was sad to cut down a healthy tree, but there are twelve more in this row, and the wood will be repurposed into benches, fences and fire wood!

As for the chainsaw, the manual has more mentions of fatal injury than a Netflix serial killer documentary!

No……… we will not be getting one for the woodshop!!

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#2

Looks like a job well done! What’s the plan now, milling or firewood?

#3

RIP tree. How are you going to go about with milling?

#4

Here’s the first bench, 6foot long but too heavy to move! It needs to dry out a bit first, high moisture content makes it ridiculously heavy.

It will probably be used for outside firepits as it is pine and the high resin contact will lead to chimney fires if I use it in the inside wood burner

Milling unlikely,

Not a single domino used!

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#5

Mark without domino’s, is like a tree without roots!

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#6

Hope you got some chainsaw trousers! Even the hardest of Canadian loggers are happy to spend £100 on keeping their legs attached to their body.

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#7

That tree is simply playing a waiting game. Don’t turn your back on it Mark. Conifers are the worst, they never forget!

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#8

i didn’t expect to get mooned at by a tree today.

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