Big score! A piano oak has been taken down in my yard! And it's all seasoned! Super dry. So dry that an 8 pound maul was all I needed. Burning some now! What? You've never heard of the piano oak tree? Me neither. Our somewhat treasured hacklay piano from the 1920s that we got about 20 years ago has met its end at the hands of screwdriver, a wrench, an 8 pounder, and my chop saw. Sad... Sorta. No one played it much anymore and we discovered that the support feet were damaged severely when it was moved here far more than we had thought. We recently moved it again to put in a new oak floor and found it rather wiggly. Now that the floors are done ... The potentially unsafe.feet and the weight of the thing made us decide to put it down. I have to say, destroying a piano is a sad thing, akin to burning books. And ungodly heavy. The harp and the box that the strings attach to in the piano must be close to a thousand pounds. Mighty decent oak on there though!
Sort of like this post. I would find it really hard to chop up a piano oak in my yard. My piano was made in the early 1900s and fortunately is still in good shape.
It didn't feel all that good... But after getting into it more and seeing how severe the structure was damaged transporting it nearly two decades ago I am glad we took it out before it might have broken while say one of our kids was playing it or around it.
We had an old decrepit one in the basement when we moved in. I think one of our carpenter's helpers busted up the harp with a sledgehammer to get it out of there.
People don't realize how much it costs to refurbish a piano. Unless it was some collectable piano, it is better off as firewood.
Did you have chickens as a kid? If so did you play with them, and did your mom break out the axe and " fix" them for dinner?
That's absolutely true. There's quite a few available on Craigslist for free and nearly every one of them needs several hundred dollars worth of work to get them playing right. When we got the Hacklay it took over 200 in tuning to get it playable after years of sitting.
