First ever road side harvest.

[tea lady]

I am no longer a roadside harvest virgin. Driving home from Mum and Dad's this afternoon, my finely honed peripheral vision spotted some turning blanks......I mean logs ....on the nature strip. Screech to a halt, reverse slowly . ......Nonshalontly get out of car and inspect said blank......I mean logs. Birch. about 14 - 15 inches diameter. 15 inches long. Real turning blanks x 3. With my name written on. rearrange back of car. Squeeze one in. where to put the others? In front seat with seatbelt around them.

[Honorary Bloke]

I am no longer a roadside harvest virgin.

One can only mourn for the loss of innocence.

Noice score!

[NCArcher]

Nice pick up TL.
Any thoughts on what they may become? Some more saucers perhaps?

[DavidG]

The woody definition of road kill.

[Ad de Crom]

Hey tea lady, for sure fasten these logs with the seatbelts, guess what happens when you hit to hard the breaks. Or more simply drop these logs in the trunk of your car.
Or doing like me with making every week a long distance walk and find nice birch logs somewhere in the woods, that's nice too.
What are you going to do with this birch, lucky girl?
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[TTIT]

The beginning of the end! So how much storage space have you got TL you're gonna need it

[tea lady]

Hey tea lady, for sure fasten these logs with the seatbelts, guess what happens when you hit to hard the breaks. Or more simply drop these logs in the trunk of your car. Yes! I didn't want to damage the wood.
Or doing like me with making every week a long distance walk and find nice birch logs somewhere in the woods, that's nice too.
What are you going to do with this birch, lucky girl?
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Have been wanting to turn larger bowl and platter shapes, so these will be some. Maybe rough turn them green. Such big logs might take too long to dry.

[Burnsy]

I am no longer a roadside harvest virgin.

Well done, waste not want not.

I picked up a lovely length of flame shoak this evening opposite Woolworths, someone had hit the tree and snapped off a bow at grouund level. 2 metres long and 300mm diameter. Had to go home and get the chainsaw to lop the top off, saved the shire doing it tomorrow - I deserve a rate reduction

[Ad de Crom]

Have been wanting to turn larger bowl and platter shapes, so these will be some. Maybe rough turn them green. Such big logs might take too long to dry.

Tea lady, turn them rougly with some oversize, put them in a paper bag for a week of four and store it in a nice dry and warm place like your attic, birch dry faster than you think. Than surprise us with a very nice turning, okay
Good luck.
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[tea lady]

Tea lady, turn them rougly with some oversize, put them in a paper bag for a week of four and store it in a nice dry and warm place like your attic, birch dry faster than you think. Than surprise us with a very nice turning, okay
Good luck.
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OK!

[Ed Reiss]

I am no longer a roadside harvest virgin. ....on the nature strip

Shame on you TL....you know what "Ern says 'bout "nature strips"!(was anyone watching????)

[hughie]

The beginning of the end! So how much storage space have you got TL you gonna need it [

Yep, as surely as the sun rises every mornning.

I rough mine out and put them in cardboard boxes, have yet to find a decent source of paper bags.

[wheelinround]

[Sawdust Maker]

Well done TL now you're on the slippery slope of not enough storage space. Friends will spot the wood pile and ask whether you have an open fire
Buy a chainsaw - keep it in the boot - be prepared
I liberated this from inside a roadside find. I showed it to my 11yo son and said I turned it from the timber we got from the nature strip around the corner and did he remember. He said which time, I'm always getting wood from the side of the road!

[rsser]

Good find TL.

If it's mature Silver Birch you may find some remarkable figure like the marbled end paper on old books.

And it's easy to turn.