On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 20:10:22 GMT, Mark Russell
wrote:

I have two cherry logs 6 foot long by 24" around. they were cut last
fall at my mother-in-laws house. I recently bought myself a lathe. I
want to turn the logs into turning blanks. I have two issues. First
they have been sitting on ground for six months I'm afraid I have ruined
at least one side of the log. what should I do about that? second I
can't move them with out a crane. So I'm planing on turning them into
bowl blanks but I will not have the time to rough turn all of that wood.
I'm looking for opinions on what I should do the the wood.

please chime in I really don't want to loose that much good wood.

Can you roll them? It'd help to move them about a bit so that the
side that's been on the ground for six months gets a little sun.

Beyond that, my suggestion- if you can swing it- is to find someone
who does logging as a hobby. One of the guys I work with likes to log
on the weekends, and I had him slab and transport a truckload of
willow burl in exchange for babysitting his puppy over Christmas. He
had the equipment, liked to do it, and it saved him about $150 in
boarding fees and vet costs, so it turned out well for both of us.
The burl hunks were (well, still are, for the most part) still pretty
large and weighed about 70lbs each, but that is manageable enough to
move them around and cut them with my little electric chainsaw.