Well, I left it too late to take pics in natural light yesterday and I woke to heavy rain so until it clears up or I man up and drag some inside this is the best pic Ill have taken hanging out of a back window...
The bigger bits the lads stacked neatly for me but then they lost interest and chucked the rest into a rough pile with a few stray bits of wood that were laying about. I'm hoping there's enough sycamore to froe some blanks for turning and big spoons/ladles.
Thanks for all your suggestions. Unfortunately I've killed the relatively new and still shiny bandsaw by stripping a thread adjusting a bit that your not meant to adjust yourself on the lower wheel. oops. All I need to do is get a small bolt 1/2 a mill wider (or a imperial size just bigger than the original) and re tap the hole to fit but its in a fiddly place and i keep putting it off. So I'll be ripping the stuff apart or splitting it either with the froe or wedges, once I know whats worth keeping and whats firewood. I had a lot of paraffin wax dumped on me so I've been using that to seal the ends of stuff. I've got it in a old double boiler and in theory if I scrape it off before using the wood I can chuck it back in and reuse it. Nowts tried to eat it so far.
I'm hoping to use some of it while its still green, what I was really hoping for was a big slab to make a kneading trough from but I only got to the guy after He had chopped it up into convenient to carry to the chipper pieces.
I'd love it if some of it has that lace figure, the sycamore i've had that's not been spelted has been rather bland. Great to work mind, just not pretty
Yeah, all the horse chestnut 'Ive come across before has been very splitty, the only thing apart from burning I've seen it used for is spit into palings for fences.
Yeah, there's at least two microscopes in the house not including the brass affair herself inherited and plenty of unused slides, just finding them will be fun! Im glad its not just me that has difficulty telling the two apart!
More when I have pics that are some use.
ATB
Tom