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General Forestry => Forestry and Logging => Topic started by: Magicman on July 09, 2010, 08:26:17 PM
I'm sawing beetle killed SYP, but these trees were stressed by Hurricane Katrina. I suspect that the internal stresses caused by Katrina will be with us for many years to come. We'll blame it on beetles.
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Shake rings.
We find shake in Sycamores and cotton woods here in Ohio and some times after one H of a thunderstorm with straight line winds your find it in red oak and pin oak. White and Bur seems to hold togather a little better. But a tornado can do a number on all of them . I cut a white ash last fall that had a shake ring all the way around it and it was a inch thick so I left them dry out and knocked the centers out and made rustic waste paper cans. :D
shake always shows at one inch under the width you want to cut
it is worse up here than rot, at least ya knows rot will be bad.
I have tried to cut shake trees..........red oak and hemlock..........it always shakes out one inch below my maketable width.
I DanG hate the shake