Specialists entered into the fashion of landscape design use natural materials for the organization of a recreation area in the garden and on the local area. Modernity holds an equal for environmental friendliness, the simplicity of the materials used, which is why the tree is given the first place. So garden furniture is preferable to wooden and made by own hands, rather than bought. Home craftsmen take an ordinary breathing log carrying heat, creating unique works of art in their dacha. It is worth abandoning the rusting metal or darkening plastic when there is a tree. This article will talk about how to make a bench of logs. Even a beginner in household chores will cope with this.
Wooden benches
Tips for selecting material for the bench
Traditionally, it is a wooden log that is being processed. It is necessary to choose a wide log so that when sawing you will get a seat and a back of a comfortable area. Some use together with logs and planed boards, pre-prepared. Regular logs do not need a specific treatment, unless it is a log of coniferous trees. Here the main hitch behind the resin remains. Wood requires that it be grinded, because in the process of exploitation it can dirty clothes to the one who sits on it.
Video - a bench from a log without a single nail
How to get rid of the resin of coniferous trees?
To do this, take a solution of acetone with water 4: 1.Apply the compound with a brush, not wood, so that it is completely absorbed. Remains of the solution must be washed off and dried. For drying, you can use a building hair dryer. Another effective method is the use of a solution of acetone, caustic soda 20: 4.If you have calcined soda and potash, their ratio of 6: 5 is brought to the consistency of sour cream, smearing the resinous places of the log. The wood is covered in several layers by this composition, it is carefully rubbed into the tree. Having finished with the log preparation, let's move on to the tools.
Tools that are in every house
"Gentleman's" set is a chainsaw or ordinary two-handled, sandpaper and rasp. To create decorative effects, use an electric jigsaw, chisel or chisel. It all depends on your initial skills. Smooth cuts are obtained, if you use a chainsaw, with a two-handled will be much more difficult, you have to connect to the process of another person.
Technology of creating a bench from a log
Having taken a fairly wide log, at least one meter in length, it is necessary to cut it into two parts. Next, treat it with a cleansing compound. One of the parts of the saw will serve as a seat, and the second - a back. Stumps can serve as firm supports if they are digged, and you can fasten the backrest to the seat with wooden planed boards. Applying nails to create a bench, be sure to "bite off" their hats.
By the same principle, you can make a garden chair, then a smaller log is taken. The seat in it hollows out in a circle, creating a comfortable place.
Advices for caring for wood
Since wooden benches will stand year-round in the street, they can be affected by the impact of the environment. To a tree to last longer, it is necessary to treat it with special compounds against pests, you can find them in agricultural stores. To decorate a bench it is possible not only carving, but also to paint, or varnish.
To create unusual log benches, you need a little more than 5 hours of work, if you do it alone. Here the seat with the fastened back is installed not on the dug up stumps, but on small round treated poleshki, shot down with each other. Below between the poles, a strong bridge is pinned, holding the whole structure.
Decorative benches from logs
Having a fantasy and a desire to do something with their own hands, you can only saw with a chainsaw help sawing a wooden chair sticking out of the ground in a big tree stump. There are many more options for creating garden benches for the suburban area. For example, if you cut a log in this way, cutting 2/3 at an angle. As a result, something like the open mouth of "Pakmana" or the cut round cheese will turn out. The log is mounted on the supports and attached to them. If you use branches of vines, previously soaked in water, you can decorate the bench with bizarre wood forms. Vine-the material is durable and durable. Putting a bench on the ground, keep in mind that the "legs", coming in contact with moist soil, begin to decay. In this case, it is recommended to do something like "insoles" for the legs. Cut out the mug of the correct diameter from the plastic and nail it to the legs from the bottom. Do you have a wooden hanger that you do not mind using for a new bench? Or there is a wooden wheel from a cart - use these materials with imagination - they can decorate your work.
Also read the article about building benches for the dacha with their own hands.
