With he price of gum I thought I would thin the wood lot out. Right now its $60 ton for nasty gum logs. Should be 12-14 ton, Last one I hauled was 14 and some change.
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Thats a load. :D The tires are grunting!
Poston wants to cut some siding from that ;D.
Quote from: WDH on January 12, 2015, 03:56:08 PM
Poston wants to cut some siding from that ;D.
It would make some DanG good barn siding. :)
What is god siding ? for a church ?
But not quick enough. ;D
It's a tough crowd for the goat. Always someone waiting to pounce. :D
Quote from: Jemclimber on January 13, 2015, 11:11:53 AM
It's a tough crowd for the goat. Always someone waiting to pounce. :D
Kinda like coyotes ain't they
Quote from: Jemclimber on January 13, 2015, 11:11:53 AM
It's a tough crowd for the goat. Always someone waiting to pounce. :D
You're right Jem......one day I'm gonna fly off the handle and clear out some of these threads. :D :D :D :D
I have Goat friends in high places.
popcorn_smiley ::)
Black Gum?
Why not saw some cross ties out of them ??? is it worth more as chip or what
Sweet gum, And it is going to a tie mill. I have 3 more loads 8)
Saw some gum lumber on another post, it looked good. But not knowing if it will be I am asking.
Going to have a BIG sweet gum cut that is close to our house. Should I save it to cut when I do get my mill?
Dean, I think you will find that sweetgum logs don't store very well. Best to saw into boards as quickly as possible.. Oh, and quartersaw it. Stack and sticker well, plenty of weight on top, and cover with roofing tin.
yup. That microbial life sure loves munching on it. I sawed railroad ties for awhile, picking them up and stacking them by myself got old. The biggest piece of steel I ever hit was in the middle of a black gum. Some guy was plowing the mountainside field long ago an lost a mule shoe. hung it on the branch of a sapling. When I hit something real solid in there, was making 2x8's for my shed, didn't want to loose the board so turned the log around and sawed in from the other end close to the object and split the board off. I still have a rafter in the shed roof with the mule shoe buried in it.
Is gum any good to make stickers? I have a few I need to clear cut. They are on the small side. If they are not good, I will just pile them up and burn them as I did in the past.
They will warp and twist unless quartersawn. But, if you quartersawed it, I wouldn't use that for stickers :).
Quote from: Jemclimber on January 13, 2015, 11:11:53 AM
It's a tough crowd for the goat. Always someone waiting to pounce. :D
Or a troll under the bridge.
p.s. here it is, with even more stories about goats! http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type0122e.html
Thanks for the heads up about using them for stickers. Burn pile they will go. :D
Thanks for the info. Think I will just let that gum live a little longer.
All the spiral grain woods like sweetgum, blackgum, sycamore, elm, and hackberry are very difficult to deal with.