THEBIGSWEED's FIRST ENTRY in #sam-saturday 😁

First time participant in #sam-saturday. Well here goes, as you can see from the very first photo I 😍😍😍😍😍😍
wood, lumber, standing wood, dead wood, decayed wood, hell I love wood so much I enjoy getting splinters.

Sorry, I just had to get that off my chest. 😁😁 By the way I'm thebigsweed and live in Upstate NY.

The pictures in this post are of a couple of unique pieces that I made from some really cool trees that had fallen. I cut out and saved certain sections of the tree, the remainder went into the fireplace.

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The next 3 pics are of some saved pieces. Each piece has a little extra character. Some are known as crotch wood.

The next two pics have been purposely left out to weather. This will start a decaying process. When the log is cut the pieces will have beautiful streaks of blue, orange, and other colors depending on the type of lumber.

This piece I'm going to make a plant stand leaving the branches long so we can fill with hanging baskets of flowers.

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This is a piece of pine with branches cut shorter and is great to hang some of the gear for the pond on.

These old logs will become the legs of a coffee table.

A slab of Red Oak will be the top.

Here is an idea of what it will look like

Her is a table that I completed two weeks ago. The base is a piece of Black Cherry Crotch wood. The top is a slab of Swamp Oak.

This is a root ball from a tree that came down this past winter. 🤞🤞It barely missed one of our cabins.

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Here is the piece finished and placed in a bed. We hang different ornaments on it.

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Other pieces that I have made decorate the bed. HOME SWEET HOME Nothing like it!😁😁😍😍

A picture of the bed.

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This is the family mill. This is used to cut all of our slabs and other really great pieces!!

As you can probably tell by now, working with wood is one of my passions.😍😍😍

One last thing, I taught for over 30 years, instructing children with learning disabilities. I loved every minute of it.

A shoutout to #bluemoon, that was fun.

Hope you enjoyed! thebigsweed

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Thanks for participating in this challenge! Excellent post and gorgeous love for your wood. Wood is a special material and should rejoice that we have yet. I like your wooden decorations, I like table. I like where you live and work ... there you are probably happy.

I can remember waking up as a kid on Christmas mooring and that excitement I felt. I feel the same way up here when I jump out of bed and anticipate the day's activities😁😁😁.
More than happy to be a part of this challenge and the others to follow.

Thanks for the kind words.

Always appreciated! Always humbled!

I'm glad you're here, I'm waiting for your future posts.

Your love for wood is wonderful. I wish sometimes that I had the tools and most of all the knowledge to create such beautiful things.

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Thanks for such a nice complimented.

Always appreciated! Always Humbled!

You have created some beautiful pieces. Thank you for sharing them.

It's so rewarding to see something that to others may have little value, and make some really nice out of it. Thank you so much for such kind words!

You are very welcome!

howdy sir thebigsweed! wow you don't much like trees do ya? lol. Hey that first photo, the tree looks huge! must be a real old one?

You make some great looking pieces and I didn't know that you could get different colors started in logs by allowing them to start decaying first, that's very interesting.
This was an interesting, informative and entertaining post with alot of good pictures!

Thank you.I should start on that coffee table very soon. Will post pictures as the project moves along.

howdy tonight sir thebigsweed! I love those kinds of posts...and do you sell the pieces you make?

The pieces that I personally make are for me. My sons make all types of furniture, especially live edge furniture, those are for sale. Most times projects they do are ones that have been ordered by customers.

You have created some beautiful pieces! I love that decorative grouping in your yard. Nicely done!