Thread: todays job

Cadaghi's lovely, Carl, but heavy as. It's very stable and quite brittle. It's also hard to find long logs of any girth. Nice work.

no long logs in this one.

longest i got was 2.4m but only 350mm diamiter.

i have one log here iv had for adges that 700mm diamiter and 2.8m long.

il be slabing it next.

Yeah I don't mind Cadaghi too, everyone tells you to stay away from it, it's junk, what do you want that crap for, etc.

But I gave one a go, fairly large too, I got two lengths about 2.4m, the butt was 650 diameter and the second log sarted around 500 diameter, I got it from our local primary school about 4 years ago.

To date I have used sawn timber for battens on an animal shelter, a slab for kitchen benchtop and also a few of the slabs I have ripped down for step treads. Also had an offcut slab under my cement bags (to keep them off the ground and keep them dry)when I was mixing concrete for our house posts 2 years ago. Seems to have reacted like any decent hardwood. I haven't had trouble from it and the grain is really nice too. It does have a fairly large amount of sapwood, but you get that.

Show the others some pics when you cut it up Carl

sheel be a wile drying.

when i cirst cut each log lenght and lifted tehm up the watter was quite literaly pring out. like someone turned on a tap.

Yeah a tree lopper mate of mine reckons Cadghi pulls a massive amount of water out of the ground, he has this computer gizmo with a 'belt' you put around the trunk of the tree and he can do this analysis thing with it and says big Cadaghi's can pull something crazy like 300 litres a day or something like that