UK's Favourite Tree

[Chance]

Is there a woodsy-type person out there that knows of a use for Leyland Cypress, other than as landfill ?
I've just given mine its two-yearly kicking, and am left with a few large lumps that will otherwise be tarring up my chimney. There was a fair amount of resin on the severed ends; but it doesn't seen to take a flame as well as other conifers (this was not a scientific experiment, before anyone corrects me on its BTU value: I just fired a lighter at a piece before throwing it onto the growing log pile).

 

[scanker]

Tried as a bowdrill?

 

[Mikey P]

How about experimenting with getting oil out of it?

Stick with me...

Big Ray Mears did this with pine tree stumps and the like on two of his programmes - one to get turps (or something) out to put on his wooden skis, and one to extract oil from birch (I think).

So, you still get the fun of burning stuff and you can extract something sticky and potentially useless. I don't know what you'd get out of your tree.

Ta-da!

 

[Squidders]

Christmas tree

 

[Klenchblaize]

Quite surprisingly I don’t have anything useful to suggest in this case but the title of the thread gives me an idea for another!

Cheers

 

[bambodoggy]

Quite surprisingly I don’t have anything useful to suggest in this case

I have to agree completely, I can't think of any good use for these things other than keeping me in business cutting them down! lol

 

[PatrickM]

The branches will give you nicely curved fire bows, throwing sticks and many other delights. The bark makes first class folded buckets.

 

[Chance]

Scanker,
Forgive my forum manners: I obviously didn't search for long enough before posting.

Klenchblaize,
Forgive my misdirection. Since you ask, yew. Or maybe birch. Of course, there's oak, as well; and beech. Too difficult: anything but sycamore.

 

[Tengu]

they can be used for lawsuits?