Our New Life in the Country: Buzz, Buzz, Chop. Chop

Saturday, 3 May 2014

Buzz, Buzz, Chop. Chop

Buzz, buzz, chop, chop the noises our hillside is ringing with at the moment.

The grand old oak is finally being sliced up and the wood removed to the back of the sheds to season outdoors for a while before being moved to the dry of the workshop once it is built.

One tree, four guys and two days of none stop labour including Lovely Hubby's help to carry the huge pieces of wood ...

... each full slice three inches thick and six foot long ...

onto the pallet base that Lovely Hubby made ...

... at the rear of the big shed.

Branches, logs and sticks are being stacked nearby ready for burning in a couple of years.

They reckon it will take a minimum of three years for the slices to season properly before they can be used for furniture making. It's beautiful wood.

Well it was a beautiful tree it should be.

Sue xx

12 comments:

Poppypatchwork3 May 2014 at 09:26
It's a great shame when a tree falls, but this one will live on in the furniture hubby will make, plus the smell of wood burning is just divine, so nothing can get wasted.
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Retro Wren3 May 2014 at 09:27
It's great that it's being used in with your retirement plans though. Do you have any pictures of the grain that we could possibly see Sue?

Have a lovely Bank Holiday weekend Sue. Hope the sun shines there.
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The Squirrel Family3 May 2014 at 09:50
Wonderful stuff
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rusty duck3 May 2014 at 09:54
It's great to see the wood being stored for future use. I hope it seasons well.
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Dc3 May 2014 at 11:34
It really is becoming the good life, isn't it?
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Unknown3 May 2014 at 11:56
The slices of wood are amazing. You don't really thing about how it's sliced and stored do you? I hope it carries on being loved for many years to come whatever it ends up being x
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Anonymous3 May 2014 at 13:35
How exciting furniture made from your own wood.x
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Jane and Chris3 May 2014 at 14:12
I can really see how big that tree is now!
Jane x
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SusanM3 May 2014 at 16:17
Love the wood! Just had a wee look and noticed that you've exceeded your fund raising target. Yay !!!! Excellent! x
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Shrimpton and Perfect3 May 2014 at 18:06
So nice to have a project that will 'physically' link you to your land.

Jean x
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BadPenny3 May 2014 at 18:09
What a great project to have started in you lovely forever home x
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Kev Alviti5 May 2014 at 08:21
This is easily one of the best investments that a smallholder can make. That oak will be worth loads in the future, shame its not a little longer as you will loose some at the end to splits. Have you sealed the ends at all?
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This was my Blog, just me writing about our day to day life learning all about and then living the smallholding life. First we started on a farm in Oxfordshire, then we moved to a smaller place in Berkshire (both in England) and then we found a place of our very own at the bottom of a hillside in North Wales. Along for the ride were all our various animals, and we ended up with just our dogs, Suky and Mavis, our cat Ginger .... who secretly thinks he's one of the canine gang, a sheep called Ethel who wandered in off the road and stayed... and a roving band of egg laying chickens that live cheek by jowl with the local wildlife.

We grow our own fruit and vegetables, selling surplus plants and edibles at the gate. We sell the eggs the chickens lay, we reuse, recycle and rethink ... and life ticks over at a pace that suits us.

It was simply the wild and wacky ramblings of a 50 something townie turned country girl called Sue, who lost her heart to a sailor and started a new life in the country .... many years ago. On a path that took us from Cumbria to Oxfordshire, to Berkshire and then we found our home at the bottom of a wet and windy Welsh hillside by a busy main road.

Pull up a chair, grab a coffee and relax into a world of dogs, cats, chickens, polytunnels and veggies with the occasional grass munching sheep thrown in for good measure.

Sue xx

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