I love yew, I love yew more

[Woodmonkey]

Felled quite a big yew this week, here's the branch wood...(quality of pics not great sorry)

some good stuff for turning.

and here's the main trunk which is not a bad size for a yew...

I'll be using a chainsaw mill to plank this up in the next couple of weeks. I'll try and remember to take some pics of the process if anyone's interested. Some great colours in there, the pics don't do it justice.

 

[Grahamshed]

Looking forward to it, just like yew

 

[Random Orbital Bob]

oh we want pictures alright

 

[dann]

Yewll get maybe an inch of waste using a chain mill, you don't have access to a mill with a bandsaw, seems such a waste of such a precious timber

 

[Grahamshed]

Oh yes, lots of pictures. We are yew pic junkies here.

 

[hammer n nails]

ooo great pity u are so far away from me

 

[Woodmonkey]

Dann you're right there's a lot less waste using a band saw mill, unfortunately it's sitting at the bottom of a steep garden with no access to get it out, so only way

 

[Woodmonkey]

Milled some of this up today, ran out of time unfortunately but got the biggest section done, some cracking colours and figuring.

Just got to sit on it for 12 months before i can use it!
There's a shorter section which I will mill thicker for bowl blanks so will probably turn some of it green.

 

[carlb40]

Milled some of this up today, ran out of time unfortunately but got the biggest section done, some cracking colours and figuring.



Just got to sit on it for 12 months before i can use it!
There's a shorter section which I will mill thicker for bowl blanks so will probably turn some of it green.

Won't your bum get wet sitting on it that long? :mrgreen:


Looks like there is some cracking timber there

 

[Roughcut]

Yew beauty! :lol:

 

[Woodmonkey]

:lol: yep like a mother hen sitting on her eggs

 

[Random Orbital Bob]

Its just delightful stuff yew. Were it not deadly poisonous it would be tempting to eat it!

 

[Phil Pascoe]

You can eat the arils.

 

[Grahamshed]

Groan
Dirty great big slabs of yew.
Groan.

I had a chance to buy a 5ft(isn) by 8 inch(isn) slab 3 inches thick today for £60. Turned my back on it but beginning to regret it.

 

[Peter Sefton]

Very nice yew lucky man

 

[Random Orbital Bob]

You can eat the arils.

Yeah I'd heard that...those are the red little rings round the seeds aren't they. Just wiki'd them and had to laugh. It said about the flavour of the seeds: "people who ate the seeds, before they died, reported they tasted quite nice."

I think that's one particular delicacy I'll leave to the French!

 

[Woodmonkey]

I've tried them, they are tasty. the seed inside is very woody its easy to spit them out.

 

[Alexam]

Felled quite a big yew this week, here's the branch wood...(quality of pics not great sorry)



some good stuff for turning.

and here's the main trunk which is not a bad size for a yew...



I'll be using a chainsaw mill to plank this up in the next couple of weeks. I'll try and remember to take some pics of the process if anyone's interested. Some great colours in there, the pics don't do it justice.

That wood looks fantastic. I am new to woodworking and was given a couple of slices of Yew by Glynne Roberts of Sutton Coldfield. Having aquired an old bandsaw, I thought that a bandsaw box would be suitable and this is half the log I was given. My second only bandsaw box.

 

[disco_monkey79]

Is that a chainsaw with a milling attachment, or are the two parts inseparable? I.e. can such a get-up be fixed to a regular chainsaw, or is that a specialist piece of kit?

I'd love to work with great big waney slabs like that. Lovely.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

I seem to remember seeing one that used a standard saw, but of course the bar needs to be long as the tip end has to be attached to the mill. I believe the chain is different as well. Someone will be along with far more knowledge than me.