Life's A Beech

[Happy Jack]

I have absolutely no idea where this topic should go so I'll just chuck it into General Discussion and see where it gets moved to ...

 

I keep my bees in a lovely beech forest near High Wycombe. The canopy is so dense that for the whole year (excluding Winter) very little sunshine penetrates and the bees have been suffering.

 

After five years I have finally decided to something about it. What have I decided? This:

 

 

 

Those four trees total roughly 12 tons of timber, nearly half of it in that last tree alone. 

 

I have no problem with leaving those trunks to slowly rot over the next 20 years, providing a variety of habitats for wildlife and looking awfully picturesque, but there is a short-term opportunity here.

 

If there's a Basschatter with a chainsaw and a pickup who could make use (profitable or otherwise) of some of that lumber, get in touch with me.

 

As I understand it, beech is hardly ever used for luthiery (weight? grain? anyone know?) but obviously it is very widely used in furniture manufacture. The woods throughout the Chilterns were planted with beech largely to support the British furniture industry when it was based in High Wycombe. That in turn led to people like Ian Waller and Pete Stevens setting up Electric Wood in High Wycombe. 

 

So there you are - this post is actually bass-related after all ...

 

[paul_5]

Just watched that and thought “God, aren’t they noisy though?!” and then I realised it was the chainsaw…

[Happy Jack]

7 minutes ago, paul_5 said:

I realised it was the chainsaw…

 

Yes, I keep it tuned to Low B ...

 

[franzbassist]

 

17 minutes ago, Happy Jack said:

As I understand it, beech is hardly ever used for luthiery (weight? grain? anyone know?) but obviously it is very widely used in furniture manufacture. The woods throughout the Chilterns were planted with beech largely to support the British furniture industry when it was based in High Wycombe. That in turn led to people like Ian Waller and Pete Stevens setting up Electric Wood in High Wycombe. 

 

So there you are - this post is actually bass-related after all ...

 

Beech can provide great facings, for example on this Wal I had made many moons ago.

 

 

Edited September 17, 2021 by franzbassist

[oldslapper]

I was chatting to a colleague at work on Wednesday who casually mentioned that he had cut down a load of Ash trees on his property over the years and used it for fire wood. When he described the size of the remaining trunks, I suggested he stops burning them. 

[Silvia Bluejay]

Following several enquiries, Jack has asked me to point out that he doesn't have a cardboard box big enough to take a beech tree, and anyway he won't sit in the wood all day waiting for your courier to collect. 😉

[paul_5]

Also, we’ll done to Happy Jack for keeping bees!

 

Love those stripy little bastards!

[yorks5stringer]

Is this an opportunity to make jokes about Sting, you 'Logging In' or favourite Van Morrison album being Tupelo Honey?

[madshadows]

The Lumberjack song  

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FshU58nI0Ts

[TheGreek]

I played Rugby when I was younger and had trials at Wasps.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I was only good enough to get in the B team.

[WAYNESWORLD]

Real buzz around this thread.

[Hellzero]

On 17/09/2021 at 18:27, Happy Jack said:

 

Yes, I keep it tuned to Low B ...

 

 Sorry @Happy Jack it's tuned in D.