Thread by @gauravsabnis

Saturday afternoon chore+workout at #OurWawar. Chopped up this magnificent American Ash branch sadly felled by a borer. 38 years old. It was about 10 feet long when I started. Now chopped into logs. Firewood + woodworking.

And the branch piece makes an excellent side table.

Still no chainsaw. Still sticking to the resolution of keeping #OurWawar power tools free. Green and healthy.

A couple of Latino dudes working on the neighboring property with a chainsaw came over after they saw me using the manual saw. Asked if I wanted them to quickly cut them up. I said no no, doing this for exercise.

They exchanged some "strange white collar people" looks lol.

And I heard a line with the word "trabajo" and "sabado" muttered many times that from my rudimentary Spanish I translated as "here we are working on a Saturday and he has spending his Saturday working lol"

I've purchased enough firewood while camping to estimate that this is worth at least $50-60 bucks. And it took 4 hours.

I guess I could totally make a basic living literally just chopping the fallen trees here and selling them.

I won't. But I could. 😁💪

Btw this is seeeeeeriously high quality wood. Ash Borer damage, while structurally fatal, is very localized.

The rest of the tree is 40 year old amazing wood that I'm gonna turn into cutting boards and butcher blocks to gift friends. 😁

And maybe make giant chess pieces!

I was googling for beginner level woodworking tips for the Ash tree and damn, what a perfect book this by @RobPennWildwood for our situation!

Except ours was felled by the borer.

But what a great idea! To see how many things we can make with this.

A follower suggests - "you could totally make cricket bats out of Ash. And even maples that I noticed you also have at your wawar"

Oooh! Totally! Just get a रंधा and make a light cricket bat!