Paul, I also cut a tree from my fathers back yard. After hours of headscrathing I made a decision and cut the main section into a billet about 8 in either side of the heart ant set it all under the house on fillets to dry. After about 11 years I started to cut for blanks and ended up with just one usable piece as there were un-fillable bark pockets and the worst was that some time in the past when the tree was a pup kids must have built tree huts or smmething in it as we constantly hit nails right dowm into the base of the tree. Hope high but be prepared for anything.
Von Gruff.
