Pain and gain

I can barely move, operate or function. Spent 4 hours helping neighbor cut up a 70-100 yro tree that had snapped and partially fallen. The best part of moving idk how much weight and footage of tree is that I get to keep ALL of it I want to make into anything. Being a woodworker is great, and friends and neighbors like this are so few and far apart. I’m going to make them a bench, table and few other things from this tree they lost.

It’s going to be a couple of days though till the pain is gone and I can fully move and work. Yay nerve damage

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SoftIceCream

A freshly fallen tree takes years to dry out before you can build anything with it, otherwise it will crack. It has to dry slowly or it will crack. If you have a shed to put it all in that would be ideal.

WastedTime

@SoftIceCream I am a woodworker of 28 years. I have slabbed and cut up many a tree in those years. I have rounds and slabs that have been air drying anywhere from yesterday to 10 years. There’s a couple of products out there that help speed up the drying process that are chemical based that also help with preserving the wood and preventing checks. I tend not to use them because I’m tired of all the chemicals out there so ready in the air and everything else.

Baybreeze · 41-45, F

Ice pack will help a bit , and possibly 800 mg ibuprofen...which is prescription strength.

LamontCranston · M

@Baybreeze Excellent advice.

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