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Thank you for posting this Matt.  I was going to use this as an example.  Much inspiration here.

 

Originally posted by mthompson33 mthompson33 wrote:

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Originally posted by JSiau10 JSiau10 wrote:

actually, I've been considering making a caber out of some 3inch diameter PVC and cement.


Don't waste your time. You'll bust it in the first practice.

For the same price you can get yourself a 6 x 6.  Turn it into an octagon in cross secvtion with a circular saw.  Buy yourself a drawknife off of ebay, and round off and taper the bottom 1/3rd.  A 14 footer will be plenty for you.   But for heavens sake, you live in WASHINGTON. There are trees everywhere.

If you're truly desperate still, in July I will be up there and I know a place where there's a stack of cut down trees drying out. They will have been there for a year or more so I bet they're pretty dry by now.  You'll have to take a ferry to get to the island, and you'll need a truck to haul it, but we can get you a tree...probably.
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Originally posted by Alan H Alan H wrote:

Originally posted by JSiau10 JSiau10 wrote:

actually, I've been considering making a caber out of some 3inch diameter PVC and cement.


Don't waste your time. You'll bust it in the first practice.

For the same price you can get yourself a 6 x 6.  Turn it into an octagon in cross secvtion with a circular saw.  Buy yourself a drawknife off of ebay, and round off and taper the bottom 1/3rd.  A 14 footer will be plenty for you.   But for heavens sake, you live in WASHINGTON. There are trees everywhere.

If you're truly desperate still, in July I will be up there and I know a place where there's a stack of cut down trees drying out. They will have been there for a year or more so I bet they're pretty dry by now.  You'll have to take a ferry to get to the island, and you'll need a truck to haul it, but we can get you a tree...probably.


I just bought a 4x4x16 and 5x5x16... like Alan says, cut the corners with a circular saw set to 45.  I don't have a draw knife so I use a hand planer to shape the bottom 6'.  The 4x4 has been good for me to practice picks and the 5x5 is pretty close to actual cabers in the LW class.  4x4 cost me $20 and the 5x5 was $33.
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