What kind of crafts can you make from logs?

When cutting down an old tree, many do not know what to do with it. It is most often used as a fuel. And at the same time, wood is an excellent ornamental material. In the presence of logs or tree stumps, you can build original furniture in the country or a suburban area, use them to decorate the landscape, construct decorative compositions.

Freeing a garden or other area from stumps or old trees, it is worth finding a more worthy use for them than recycling. The use of logs and roots will allow you to make interesting crafts, furniture, buildings.

Whole compositions are built from them, used to equip a playground, create variations in the form of flower beds. Old logs are also used to make furniture.

Use logs for the construction:

• solid trunk benches;
• chairs and benches made of hemp;
• dining table;
• furniture set.

Having experience in working with wood, you can independently make comfortable and functional furniture for a summer residence. Even the simplest construction takes time, desire, and the availability of the right professional tool. For the production of furniture, a log with a decent cross-sectional diameter is more suitable. In the process, it is processed with an ax, then an electric saw or chainsaw is used to create the basic shape. At the final stage, cleaning with a chisel and grinding is carried out.

For decorating a personal plot, an excellent solution would be to use old logs or stumps. The presence of a flower bed will allow you to favorably highlight the flower corner, as well as hide some difficult-to-remove elements.

If a stump has not been removed from the ground at the summer cottage, it will not be difficult to make a flower bed out of it. It is enough to remove the core inside it, then fill it with soil and plant flowers. You can not plant ornamental crops, but just put pots with indoor flowers. In such stumps, you can plant annual or perennial flowers, plant succulents or climbing plants.

Improvised log beds can be the perfect place to plant climbing, bulbous and ground cover plants. This is a great option for planting pansies, petunias, geraniums, or acid woods. It is advisable to select plants according to the color of the buds, as well as the height of the stem, decorativeness of the leaves, and the period of their flowering.

You can create an original flower bed even in a very old and cracked log. In this case, it is advisable to plant flowers in all holes. Bright, constant flowering will allow you to hide the defects of the log, making such a flower bed an expressive design object in the garden.

If such a composition is equipped on a site that imitates a corner with wild nature, then the tree trunk may not be processed and polished. When installing it in the center of the site, in the most visible place, it is advisable to clean and grind the bark. Such a flower bed will be an ideal choice for a garden and will look good near gazebos, recreation areas and eating areas. Next to it, you can put other decorative objects made of wood in the form of benches, wooden sculptures, lamps.

The remains of the beams can be used to make comfortable and original garden paths. Round timber paths will be a good element in landscape design. Such paths have many advantages:

• they are available;
• safe;
• made from environmentally friendly natural materials.

Tracks from scraps will look great on areas made in a rustic style, country, eco-style. The disadvantage of products is that they are damaged by insects, they can crack. When choosing this material, you need to use drying oil or another agent that serves to protect it.

Such wooden paths are in good harmony with metal structures, ceramics and wood products, forging. Usually the cuts are placed in a specific order. They can be laid out in a line, in a chaotic or staggered manner, while the diameter of the cuts can be the same or different sizes.

When arranging the tracks, high-quality proven material is used, without damage and defects. For the base of the track, you can choose sand by laying cuts of different shapes and diameters. It is better to use stones and climbing plants as decoration.

You can make simple crafts for a playground from an old tree. Using interesting ideas, you can build a sandbox or a house for gnomes.

First of all, you should decide on the size of the future craft.

For this you need:

• measure out a part of the trunk;
• walk on a log with a chainsaw;
• clean it from knots and bark;
• clean the barrel, giving it smoothness.

Figures for the children's play area are assembled from the received parts. Fasten them with nails, glue or a drill with further hammering the part into the formed recess.

Such crafts can be made from birch or pine, or use any tree growing on the site and requiring disposal. The selected logs will serve as the basis for the children's swing, sandbox, labyrinths, as well as steps and paths.

Using old logs will allow you to build interesting models from them that allow you to transform the site. A bright little train will look very interesting on the playground. It is quite simple to make it, having the right material available.

• It is necessary to take pieces of logs, preferably the same length.
• Remove the bark from them.
• Take care of removing knots. If there is no way to get rid of the knots, they are closed or the deck is turned over.

The resulting blanks in the form of wagons are displayed at a place prepared in advance in the form of a chain. Logs split in half can be used as improvised wheels. A log in the form of a pipe is installed on top of the first car.

Figures of animals or birds made of wood are very beautiful. Most often, on personal plots, you can see an owl, which is a symbol of wisdom. Such a craft from a log looks especially impressive, since the wood pattern will perfectly imitate the feathers of an owl. The most interesting is the figurine of an owl with round eyes, sitting in a column or with outstretched wings. But such crafts require more experience with wood. As an additional decoration, the product is coated with varnish or paint.

A handmade wooden deer will be a wonderful garden decoration. Such a figurine is suitable as a decor for the New Year.

To create a torso and head, conifers or deciduous trees are suitable. Large branches are used for legs and neck, while small and forked branches are suitable for antlers.

When constructing crafts, certain materials and tools are used:

• for the body, a log with a diameter of 20 cm is chosen;
• for the head they take a log with a diameter of about 10-12 cm, as well as forked branches for the horns;
• branches with a diameter of 5 cm are taken for the legs and neck.

You also need to prepare a chainsaw, a regular saw, glue, a hammer, pliers.

For the construction of crafts:

• cut out the body of a deer from a thick piece of workpiece;
• holes are drilled in the body;
• make legs and neck;
• assembly of the deer's torso;
• cut out part of the log for the head;
• drill holes for the head;
• make and install horns.

Wood is an excellent ornamental material; you can make simple figurines of animals and birds and more complex crafts from it yourself. It can be a bear, giraffe, owl, or squirrel.

To make a small figure of a bear, small-diameter logs or large branches are used. It is important that they do not show signs of decay, damage or cracks. For voluminous large crafts, thick logs are more suitable. Rectangular bars are suitable for making sculptural crafts. It is more convenient to transfer the image to such a block. When choosing wood species for landscape crafts, you should pay attention to linden, alder, aspen or birch, as well as walnut and oak.

With the skills of working with wood, you can build a beautiful fence from this material, or even a whole fence.

In the presence of logs of different thickness and height, decorative fences are often installed inside the site. In this case, it is advisable to use non-standard details, which will make the building more original. When using logs for the front part, flat uniform models with additional material processing are selected.

It is better to choose rounded logs for the fence. Their advantage is their long service life. Such structures are easy to install due to their even rounded shape, which leads to a tight, reliable connection. When building a fence, it is better to choose trunks with a diameter of up to 230 mm. For less massive fences, workpieces with a diameter of up to 15 cm are used. Their length should be about 2 meters, it is calculated taking into account the height of an adult. Within the site, such a fence is usually about 1.5 meters high.

Another popular log structure in the garden area is bridges. These include both classic models that serve to pass through a small pond, and decorative transitions through flower beds or a green island. It is very important to achieve the stability of such a structure, therefore, after installation, it is checked for strength.

Starting with small, simple crafts, you can later begin to build not only flower beds, bridges or fences, but also move on to building a full-fledged wooden house. Such a country house will keep warm in winter and keep cool in summer.

Wood is an excellent material for many products. The material is also used for decoration. It can be used to make products that are very unusual in their form and functionality.

It can be:

• hanging wooden chandelier on chains;
• ceiling lamp;
• sconce;
• dishes;
• stand;
• drinking bowl for pets;
• kennel for a dog.

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