Logs to drool over!

[T Welsh]

After reading Kilgrosh,s thread about a cherry log. And seeing the replies,I though wouldn't it be neat with Christmas around the corner to see cool logs that our membership have cut and all the rest of us can just DROOL!!!

  

 
American Sycamore from a local job with bookmatched boards. So lets see everyone else,s Logs to drool over! Tim

[Magicman]

 

 
This entire sawjob was Cherry.


 
And turned out some nice lumber.


 
Three boards.

[Brad_S.]

I cut this walnut a few years back.

  

  

 

[Jemclimber]

Beautiful boards, love the pictures.  My SO says we live in a log graveyard, she says I'm obsessed. I tell her some people collect coins and other things, I like to collect logs and boards.  I have a hard time using my my nicest boards to make things and usually use the junky stuff, saving the the nicest for that special piece of furniture that someday I'm going to build. :D  Here's some walnut I finally cut up this weekend from a log I've been saving for 5 years, before I had my lt15. Sap wood was fluff but the heart was nice.



 

[rooster 58]

Wow! That's what I'm talkn about! I cant wait to get my mill into action. I've been a wood junkie all my life, love everything about it. These pics really do make me salivate!

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

Brad......WOW.......$$$$$$$$.......very nice!

[Brad_S.]

Thanks David but in retrospect, I probably would have made more selling the log as a veneer log. Too soon old, too late smart!

[qbilder]

 

 

Tamarisk from the banks of the Rio Grande. A local park removes and stacks them in a firewood/rot pile for anybody to access. I get some burly, colorful logs from there.

[Misfit]

You guys are just mean! Have pity on the mill-less ones puhleeze; all we can do is drool.  :'(

[Dodgy Loner]

 

Tamarisk from the banks of the Rio Grande. A local park removes and stacks them in a firewood/rot pile for anybody to access. I get some burly, colorful logs from there.

[hackberry jake]

 

  

Cherry log 34" little end 38" big end. Made some wonderful lumber.



 

Ambrosia sycamore that came from this log



 

Big ole cedar logs



 



 
Big ole Osage orange log.

Wish we could all get grade A logs everyday.

[Cypressstump]

Tamarisk from the banks of the Rio Grande. A local park removes and stacks them in a firewood/rot pile for anybody to access. I get some burly, colorful logs from there.

WHAT?  I spent over 20 years out there in the Albq. area , fighting the dreaded cottonwoods,olives, and other invasive species along the bosque while duck hunting the rio grande and never noticed the tamarisk. But then i was not milling anything either, working to much on other things.

That slab you have makes me wanna' swing back out there for a while to investigate what I have apparently missed.

thanks for sharing. Stump

[T Welsh]

Now that's some logs to drool over, Good start! lets add some fuel to the fire!

  

 
A hickory that lived in a swampy area and picked up a lot of minerals. I tried to buy it from the customer. But he declined >:(. Tim

[shelbycharger400]

 

 

17 to 20 in wide for the first 6 feet, small degrade at the end, its good on one side.
9 footer!  I sawed it at 4 in thick! Thinking about resawing it in half and making a table
I did have one before that was 22 or 24 in that didnt have any rot, guy I worked with sold it for .15/ bd foot  :
I have 250 more still standing to get, stupid snow :



 
Photo from last spring,  they wait
They are planted about 20 feet apart

[qbilder]

WHAT?  I spent over 20 years out there in the Albq. area , fighting the dreaded cottonwoods,olives, and other invasive species along the bosque while duck hunting the rio grande and never noticed the tamarisk. But then i was not milling anything either, working to much on other things.

That slab you have makes me wanna' swing back out there for a while to investigate what I have apparently missed.

thanks for sharing. Stump

I got these logs just south of Elephant Butte, in Caballo, where the green chili grows I get the bigger tamarisks and screw bean mesquites. The mesquite looks great, too. The screw bean looks more like a rosewood than a mesquite. I'll try to get a pic. I have one slab left.     

[hackberry jake]

I never thought I would say this but, I like that pecan!

[Dave Shepard]

Walnut for WDH:







Only ones I've ever cut. I think I've figured out what the W stands for.  :D

[AdamT]

 For all the walnut fans out there, here's a crotch I milled for a customer a few months back. It was probably the most beautifully figured lumber I have had on my mill yet...






  

 

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

I tell ya.....this is a good title for a thread, "LOGS TO DROOL OVER".

Nice crotch Adam! That worth $$$$.

[JohnM]

Nice crotch Adam!

:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

(you were all thinking it! )

btw I totally agree, that is really cool

[AdamT]

Nice crotch Adam!

:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

(you were all thinking it! )

btw I totally agree, that is really cool

Hahahaha! We better leave this one alone or we'll all be in The Woodshed!

[WDH]

If this was not shaping up to be a favorite thread of mine, I would send it to the Woodshed  ;D.

Hackberry, ambrosia sycamore?  I am not sure that I can take it!

WOW!

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

....ambrosia sycamore?  I am not sure that I can take it!

WOW!

Makes ya shed a tear don't it?  :D

[JohnM]

NO WOODSHED!  Delete my comment first, this thread is too neat to be ruined by someone's (my) internal 5th grader. ;D

JM

[Magicman]

lets add some fuel to the fire!

 
Did someone say fire  ??? ???