Autumn Tree & Shrub Planting

We have a bare root Admiration crab apple (photo attached) coming some time in November to replace an old cooking apple tree. Shame to see it go I guess as it must be quite old, but it's got canker, gets scab and mildew every year, the apples are rubbish and it shades the greenhouse.

if you’re cooker is a fair size maybe you could find a local wood turner to make you a bowl or something from it. Then you will always have a bit of you tree. 
if you do that,  make sure when you take it down to leave a big bit intact. A bit of the trunk probably about 3ft long. wood turners get very ar$ey if you just hand them a round that is the size for spitting into fire wood. 
It’ll take a while the wood will need to dry first.

Great idea but I'm not sure there'll be enough decent wood for it. It's a weirdly shaped, gnarly tree: the trunk sort of zig zags then grows horizontally and the top of the canopy is only about 7 ft high. A lot of the lower trunk is half-hollow and I'll be leaving the stump in the ground and drilling holes in it to make bee nesting sites (but mainly because I hate digging out stumps ).