"Bill Stock" wrote in message
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No offence to the Cherry bowl people.

But I recently cut down a couple of Cherry trees for a neighbour and
acquired all the pieces for firewood. I had considered getting them
milled, but the useable pieces were just over 4' and not overly straight.
I suppose I could have gotten some 8" boards out of the larger tree (Doh),
but I really had no way to lift it or transport it to the mill. Two guys
still can't lift the stump that's left from the larger tree.

Anyway I noticed that the logs from the larger tree have a nice pattern,
so I'm wondering what else I could do with some of the logs other than
make a ****load of bowls. I don't own a lathe and don't really see myself
owning one for a while. Any ideas?

Maybe I don't understand the question...
A friend had a walnut tree cut down. The tree man set aside a 4' long by 4'
diameter piece of the trunk for me. I used splitting wedges to reduce it to
managable sizes, and cut it up into boards on my bandsaw. I have a huge
pile of 4' walnut boards. It is mostly QS, an artifact from splitting it
into wedges. (trying to split it with the grain is futile)
Why couldn't you do that? It is all good exercise.