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I'm not worried about making any mistakes. I am going to be doing the carving in stages. A very rough carve first with a chainsaw. Let it settle and recover. Then a medium carve, where I will start putting some bigger details like hollows and such. Let it recover and let mother nature do some of the finer details. Then carve the fine details. Because there is so much deadwood on this thing I can also do wiring and pruning at the same time and it shouldn't affect it to much, if at all. By the time I am done the mass of it will be reduced considerably.

keep us posted!i really want to see the transformation of this "monster"!!

I call this tree a monster because it's the biggest tree I got. All of my other trees fused together wouldn't be as big as this thing. When I got into bonsai I never thought I would ever do one this big. So yes monster fits.

I will definately keep this up to date.

Forgot to mention I have over 60 trees now.

snuffy wrote: Forgot to mention I have over 60 trees now.

hi snuffy why dont you submit a gallery of your bonsai collection? I really wanted to see more bonsai on this site.

What recovering does a tree need of carving deadwood? I was in the assumption that deadwood is just dead wood so it does nothing for the tree. As long as you use sharp tools and don't put any pressure on the tree you'll be fine. Doing al the carving at once would give even less stress on the roots than if you would do it in stages. It also gives the wood the opportunity to weather faster.

Its not necessarily recovering that is important, letting the tree rest and doing the carving in stages allows the wood to dry our between each carving, its easier to do fine carving on dry wood rather than live wood. Ive heard of people doing it like this, i think its common practice.

Using a chainsaw on a tree like this, that is sitting in 6 inches of soil, can shake the whole thing and break feeder roots. It doesn't have a large amount of feeder roots at the moment any way. I amy have to get my son to sit on the big root to keep it still. I don't want to loose this tree so I am going to take every procotion that I can think of.

Mwid has it right, natural weathering is the main point of letting it rest. It can even help in making desisions on what the final carving will look like. In some cases if you do a complete carving and let dry and weather a bit, the part that you so maticulasely carved was mostly soft wood and rots and breaks off (seen that happen on friends tree). Or another favorite it shrinks to a point of obscurity.

Cleaner most of my trees can't even be called potensai at the moment. Some are too embarracing to even say "I did that".

I amy have to get my son to sit on the big root to keep it still. I don't want to loose this tree so I am going to take every procotion that I can think of.

Sounds like you take more precautions not to lose the tree than in not to lose your son waving a chainsaw around your sons head.

My son is 23 and I will not be on the same side of the tree. Besides, it's a little electric one with very little torque on the chain. Not like a gas one that can jump on you. I have been using a chainsaw since I was 10, grew up on a farm. I have an excellent understanding of how to use a chainsaw, and know the hazards. A schoolmate cut his own leg off while cutting trees for firewood.

Why do people, in general, think all other people are unskilled idiots.