"For me, it's easier to stand the log on end to make vertical cuts," Barnes says ... Barnes makes a pair of bench ends by crosscutting the remainder of a 6-foot log half into two 3-foot sections.

When a long branch fell from one of Maryland’s oldest and most beloved trees earlier this year, chain-saw carver Colin Vale inspected it and began envisioning how he could turn it into a sculpture.

Kurtis Crossland, chair of the communities, parks and leisure committee at Sheffield City Council, said: “Our hopes are to create a bench that incorporates people’s memories of the tree." ...