armchairsailor
Active member
I know that this isn't necessarily the right forum, but it's more a case of getting the word out than anything else, so apologies for the reposting...
The last storm we had made a helluva mess of our little 2.5 acre wood, and I wandered through it yesterday for the first time to discover the true extent of the damage.
The recent winds got pretty darned high, and I watched in horror as both my potting shed took off and three huge trees went down in my field, including a lime marked on the OS 1st Edition (1870) map. But the wood suffered more -I reckon about 40 sitkas went down like dominoes and need to get floored and made safe in the next few weeks.
So... if anyone knows of a boatbuilder or sparmaker that is looking for some good straight wood to make oars, spars etc from, I would love to see some of it being made use of in a way other than to keep the house warm.
I know the likes of Collars won't be interested, as they use Alaskan sitka, but it's still about 40 years old and was tightly grown and straight. I'm getting the tree surgeons in to make good, so extraction can be arranged, Location is Kinross, Scotland.
Thanks,
Damian
The last storm we had made a helluva mess of our little 2.5 acre wood, and I wandered through it yesterday for the first time to discover the true extent of the damage.
The recent winds got pretty darned high, and I watched in horror as both my potting shed took off and three huge trees went down in my field, including a lime marked on the OS 1st Edition (1870) map. But the wood suffered more -I reckon about 40 sitkas went down like dominoes and need to get floored and made safe in the next few weeks.
So... if anyone knows of a boatbuilder or sparmaker that is looking for some good straight wood to make oars, spars etc from, I would love to see some of it being made use of in a way other than to keep the house warm.
I know the likes of Collars won't be interested, as they use Alaskan sitka, but it's still about 40 years old and was tightly grown and straight. I'm getting the tree surgeons in to make good, so extraction can be arranged, Location is Kinross, Scotland.
Thanks,
Damian