Making a field gate with a complete laying tree - Kempens Veken - Part 6 

I love your channel...You remind me of my friend Mr. Chickadee here on RU-vid...You're getting better with each video...!

It's coming along nicely so far. Keep up the great craftsmanship and hard work my friend. Forge On. Fab On. Weld on. Keep forge lit. Keep Making. God Bless

Very nice. The good news is that you don't have to reduce the diameter of the distal end and put a bridge across the natural crotch. Just leave that area at it's current thickness and whittle down the length of the log between the supports. You could also drill a hole in the root clump and fill it with lead to help add some more weight to that end. Bird shot is available all throughout Europe and is made from tungsten and/or steel BB's nowadays. Pretty weighty stuff, so you could bore a hole in a hidden spot, fill it with shot, and then cover over it with a wood plug glued in place. It might even be "fun" to find a nice large rock from the local creek that you could peg onto the top of the root mass with a large dowel much like you did for the hinge. It'd be a cute way of adding mass on the proximal end and save you a ton of work shaving the rest of the trunk down.

nice ball bearing :D

I'm impressed and what you're showing gives me some good ideas for the gate I need to build next. Thanks for that! As for your "weight problem": with every pound you add to the root ball, this problem gets smaller. And there's a pretty big hole in the ball - I'd think about filling it with concrete. Fast and easy. BTW: These chain-hoists are great tools. I also have one of these, which I used to lift the skylights onto my roof. All the best!

Impressive work! Is this your own design? I've never seen anything like it.

This is a joy to watch. If you ever want to get together to do some turning on a pole lathe, contact me and we’ll get together!