Great ideas. Thanks!

So green wood remains stable after turning? It won't shrink and crack?

One last question, what's a skid?

Joseph

"George" George@least wrote in message
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"Joseph Handy" wrote in message
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Sorry to post two in a row, but I am looking for suggestions for finding
inexpensive wood to turn.

I have an uncle who lives in a rural area and would probably share fire
wood with me. Would green, roughly chopped wood, work?

How about softwood throw aways from my local big box lumber store?


Look at your firewood before burning. Sometimes you get lucky.

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Gratitude is important. As you gain a reputation for wanting oddball
pieces of wood, you must remember to repay in the appropriate coin. Can
be a piece of work from "their" wood, a six-pack of the favorite
beverage, or taking the farmer who skids for me and his wife out to Red
Lobster for dinner and not flinching when he ordered chicken.

Then you can come home as I did one snowy day, to discover a 16 inch 8
foot cherry log beside the drive. Remained a mystery for four months
until I got a Short Of Breath - love the dispatcher shorthand "old, SOB"
comes over the pager - call to an acquaintance's house. Between vitals,
we chatted in the back of the rig. It was he who delivered the log.