Post #383375 by Cammo on Thu, May 29, 2008 6:45 PM

Grande gracias to Buzzy who rocketed out of bed this morning and dashed over in answer to my All Points Bulletin 911-TIKI call.

Well, actually he fed the dog first, watched TV for a while, checked on how much Colonial Maple he has in the pint can, cruised ebay, then decided he needed to go to Home Depot and stopped by my place on the way. But for Buzzy to make a house call - thanks man.

Here's what was tried;

650 horsepower planer. No dice. Barely scratched it.

Grinder. This was almost as long and slow as hacking it off with my chisel, but it took the bark off by disintegrating it into powder.

Then it ATE the grinder. No kidding, it burned out Buzzy's grinder.

So Buzzy looked at it a long time and meditated, and he remembered hearing somewhere that Leroy would burn the hair off in bad cases. We tried that with a cheesy propane torch, and it sort of worked. Then I hacked at it with a draw knife, which sort of worked too.

(My neighbor thought we were crazy. When we started burning the log she literally ran into her house.)

Here it is, I can't believe this f*%#ing log.

Laytah.