Moar olives!

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nozila wrote: November 15th, 2020, 9:11 am I need to get a chainsaw like yours. Mine has a hard time just making a dent in the stump.
It's nothing fancy; a mains-powered electric Ryobi from Bunnos. $150 or something like that. Don't bother with battery powered; olive wood is very dense so they'll struggle to get through.
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I had my first go at doing up an olive slab. It's my five year wedding anniversary and the traditional gift is "wood" (make of that what you will :lol: ), and when randomly browsing for gift ideas I came across some olive wood-handled cheese knives, which gave me the idea of using a slab as a serving tray thingy.

I did a lot of planing, sanding, used some clear epoxy resin to fill in the hole, and then coated with a tung oil-based kitchen bench oil which should waterproof it and be safe for food. I'm pretty happy with it for a first attempt!
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Lovely!


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We had a bit of rain, and kiddo is off with the grandparents, so I snuck in a quick dig.

The little one on the right - meh - I ripped it out with just my hands so decided I might as well take it home. The chunky guy in the middle is exactly what I was hoping to find. And the deadwood on the larger one could make for something interesting.
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I got the Dremel out and tidied up the deadwooda little. Fingers crossed this one survives...
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Just a quick update on one of the hawthorns that appeared earlier in this thread. This is the only one I kept from the lot that I dug last year - the others were all sold off.
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This is the tree in May last year just after it was collected.

Like most of my deciduous trees this is still holding onto most of its leaves but new buds are starting to burst already so I decided to have a look at the roots.
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Plenty of roots
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Little bit of a trim and tidy

I planted it back into the same nursery pot in a mix of plain old potting mix and pumice. No shot of it potted up as it's too dark but I'll try to remember to take one tomorrow.
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