My new stump...

[Cheese]

Looks like a dinner winner to me Richard.

You could also treat the bottom of the stump to the concrete baptism and then only have to replace the deck board somewhere down the line.  [big grin]

 

[Tinker]

I have followed a couple of Youtube off gridders building their own homes. Their method for preserving lumber exposed to the weather is to use flame to lightly char the surface (both sides) of the boards. If your stump has lasted five years, now that you have charred  the surface, you should get as many years out of the stump as I have been 39. In a couple of months, I will have been 39 for 51 years.

Tinker

 

[rmwarren]

I have followed a couple of Youtube off gridders building their own homes. Their method for preserving lumber exposed to the weather is to use flame to lightly char the surface (both sides) of the boards. If your stump has lasted five years, now that you have charred  the surface, you should get as many years out of the stump as I have been 39. In a couple of months, I will have been 39 for 51 years.

Tinker

Wayne [member=550]Tinker[/member] YT is where I got the idea, been hankering to try it on something and this was the perfect project.

If you haven't already seen the Northmen channel house build project, they use it. The video is 20-some minutes of proof of what a slacker I am in every way. Awesome craftsmanship.


Hope all is well, looking forward to wishing you a happy 39th, again.

RMW

 

[rmwarren]

Looks like a dinner winner to me Richard.

You could also treat the bottom of the stump to the concrete baptism and then only have to replace the deck board somewhere down the line.  [big grin]

[member=44099]Cheese[/member] the bottom got the "Lumbermans wax" Anchorseal treatment (as did the top) and I was surprised to find it in great shape. I did add 3 feet made of Azek to keep if from contacting the deck itself so it drys fully.

Added benefit is, next hurricane, I'm just gonna chain the shop to the stump and not worry about the winds...

RMW

 

[Tinker]

Richard, I am sure the charring of the stump will work to preserve. Many moons ago, we bought a house with no front yard. The yard was a steep slope with two trees at the front corner.About 10 or 12 years later, I had finished an 8 ft high stone wall with stone wells around the two trees. We finally had a front lawn. About year later, the tree with the deepest well showed signs of extreme stress. We took it down. I was talking with one of my excavation contractors about the fact I expected the second tree to succumb as well. You just don't bury a tree 5 or 6 feet and expect it to live. My friend told me to pack charcoal around the trunk and it will survive. I did pack the trunk about 3 feet up from the root crown. I have blown leaves across the top of the well and some of the leaves drop down into the well every time. That was about 40 years ago that I poured the charcoal into that tree well. I have been watching the tree very closely. I have cabled (the tree has two trunks) the trunks so they support each other. I think the tree will last for another few years, but if my friend had not told me about charcoal, the tree wood have met its demise along time ago.

I have  used the charcoal trick on several jobs where we have buried trees about two feet up the trunks. The owners wanted to save the trees if possible but did not want a masonry well around the trees.

I like your idea to chain your shop to your stump if a hurricane is aiming for your island. If you put a flag on the stump, which flag will you use? Mark the incoming side of the channel or out going channel.

Tinker