{"id":3656,"date":"2020-05-17T17:01:27","date_gmt":"2020-05-17T17:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/?p=3656"},"modified":"2020-05-17T17:03:45","modified_gmt":"2020-05-17T17:03:45","slug":"tree-slabbed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/?p=3656","title":{"rendered":"Tree Slabbed!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got to ride in the giant beast of a 1971 horse box that Ben is going to convert into a tiny home. It was amazing. And very, very loud.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3660\" src=\"http:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/20200515_084718.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We used it to transport that tree to a guy (<a href=\"https:\/\/britishhorseloggers.org\/hire-a-logger\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Peter Coates<\/a>, horse logger, in case you ever need any tree work done in an awkard spot) up near Bingley for slabbing.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3659\" src=\"http:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/20200515_092445.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;d got a cool chainsaw mill that basically held his giant chainsaw very steady as it moved along a track and cut lovely 2 inch slices off the tree.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3658\" src=\"http:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/20200515_094219.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was the work of a few hours to cut the whole thing up into bits that were manageable to lift and will dry out, hopefully, in a few weeks in the solar kiln.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3657\" src=\"http:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/20200515_111946.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We cut up all the parts we had, just to maximise beautiful bits of waney edge. Anything that doesn&#8217;t make it into the worktop will be a shelf somewhere.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3661\" src=\"http:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/20200517_115813.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And our luck at finding bargain plants at Morrissons just gets better and better. Mature, healthy orange azaleas for a tenner. The slope garden is complete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got to ride in the giant beast of a 1971 horse box that Ben is going to convert into a tiny home. It was amazing. And very, very loud. We used it to transport that tree to a guy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/?p=3656\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3656"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3656"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3663,"href":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3656\/revisions\/3663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}