Cutting large piece of wood . . .

If you can get a car or a lawn tractor into the aera that is a fully draggable size,.

Or get scaffolding poles as rollers underneath it and roll it. The species that build stone henge by hand is fully capable

Aliens built Stonehenge, and the Pyramids etc. I've seen proof on TV, so it must be true.

LOL!

But did they use rollers and earthen ramps?

(The real truth is that they were indeed built by aliens - but the aliens subcontracted the work to a local outfit.)

• Check for nails in recycled wood, before sawing.
• Having big holes in the wood, reduces the resale value of the pieces.
• Do not sand the outside of the pieces, until all the cuts and holes for the new project are done. If the wood is inherently square, you don't want to degrade the wood making it harder to put your cuts and new holes, in exactly the right places.
• If selling the wood on, leave it as is, so the buyer can "imagine" how they will refinish it and make it beautiful. If you refinish the wood, to tart it up, that defeats the next person to use the wood. Your sanding would curve the wood.

Those pieces might be too thick for a 2HP surface planer a home user might own. So if you mess up the surface on the wood, you'd have to look around for a yet-larger surface planer with a bigger mouth to fit stock into it. The one we learned on in shop, could handle two inch thick planks OK. The instructor would teach you to not take too much off on each pass (overheats the rotating blade). That's how we made "nice" sticks of wood in shop class.

And working with hard wood is different than working with soft wood. While it looks nice, the hard wood is a pain in the ass most of the time. Everything you do takes longer, it's harder on the tools.

But since you can't buy nice wood at a decent price ($80 for an 8 foot

Paul

I know someone who looks out for the sale of furniture made of decent wood but has often little resale value these days because it is out of fashion or too large for modern UK housing stock. He bought a table and recounted the look of horror on the sellers face when he got out his battery operated circular saw a proceeded to cut it into pieces to get it into the car. This person has a fully equipped woodwork shop and makes his own furniture etc.

Churches disappear because people no longer go to them and donate enough money to maintain them.

In my local town there are a few abandoned churches and people think the council should preserve them as churches. I often point out that just down the road new churches have been built that are more fit for purpose. Churches that are easy to heat and have kitchens, toilets, and separate rooms so they can be used the other 6 days a week. There seems to be a lot of people who think that all old abandoned buildings should be preserved - and with public(rate payers) money. The proposed alternative use always seems to some form of arts workshop or arts co-operative.

One of the early 'conversions' in Edinburgh was as a grid sub-station.

I was thinking of a tow-bar and rope!

That's what I thought! Are we looking at the right picture? I'm seeing 4 pieces of timber, none of which look like 150 x 40 x 40 ... and none look like

Anyway: let us know the outcome Rob RJH - jolly interesting!

Another John

Yes - that's the pic. I was told 1.5m high - which, if you scale one of the bricks, could possibly be about right.

Boring I'm afraid - the people delivered it for her. I will find out what they did with it . . .