I had a stroke of luck the other day! I was watching an auction on ebay, for some chap's spalt-pile of logs. All we had to go on was a photo which didn't really show just how much was there, and the vendor was adamant that he simply didn't have time to catalogue it all (he needed to move home very urgently), so there was an element of pot-luck about it. Anyway, to cut a long story short, I got the lot for £33.
It's all now neatly piled up in my garden. The wall in the background is just under 5ft high and the pile is 4ft deep, with a load of the smaller pieces behind the big stuff at the front of the stack.
The two big lumps are elm, whilst the black end grain on the left is olive.....there are seven logs of olive, each around 12" diameter and about 30" long, plus a gnarled and knotty base of the trunk, and about 30 pieces of branchwood.
A nice surprise, was that there are huge pieces of acacia....30" diameter logs cut into 18" lengths and split through the centre got about 4 of those. There's several large lumps of oak burr, plus lime, sycamore and beech.
In this pic, log number 69 is a 4ft length of walnut, the black-ended knobbly piece on the bottom left is olive, and the rectangular slab is elm.
Whilst I was there, he also sold me three boards that were stored indoors and nice & dry. Ash 6ft x 30" x 2", elm 5ft x 30" x 2" and brown oak, 8ft x 12" x 2". That's almost 6cubic feet....got that lot for another £30.
Guess who's grinning like a Cheshire Cat!
Les
