Cypress Crotch

[Jeff]

Tom if you was to do something about that cypress crotch you could sit still long enough to make a post in a timely fashion.

[Tom]

Didn't take quite that long but I'm unaccustomed to talking like that and figured that I would try to communicate for once. YaknowwhatImean?

[KiwiCharlie]

G'day Tom,

I guessed it meant something along those lines, or 'higgledy-piggledy', so to speak.
Jeff, maybe you could add an auto unscrambler/translator/discombobulator for words like that, for us foriegn types, so that the next time I dont have to ask, and lead yet another thread askew!!  ;) ;D
I dont do it on purpose, I really dont. ;) :D  I thought the title was some local disease - of the tree of course.
Cheers
Charlie.

[KiwiCharlie]

G'day Fla_D,

I am surprised to hear the slabs were crosscut.  Ive not much heard of that style though.  How is the strength of your slabs?  Or is it the thickness that gives the strength.  As you know, a very thin piece of crosscut wood is easy to break, with the grain direction.
Cheers
Charlie.

[Fla._Deadheader]

G'day Charlie. Here in Fla. the "Modern" cut of cypress is a light weight wood, when dried. A slab that measures approx. 36" each way, by 2 inches thick, would weigh approx. 12-15 pounds or so. What the guy does we were talking about is, he sells smaller blanks for clock making, and the larger in dia. they get, the thicker, up to about 2--2 1/2 inches thick.

  The wood I get is Old Growth, Virgin Heart Cypress. Some of this is HEAVY when dried. That's why it sank when it hit the water. It is VERY dense. The annular rings are sometimes the width of 2-3 hairs. I cut mine about 2--2 1/2 inches thick. Need to buy a looonng bar for my saw, and cut the slabs more uniform, though.

   I will try to post a pic of this tight grain. I seem to lose definition when I reduce pic byte size.







   The old timers that cut the timber would "girdle" it, and then return a year or so later to fell it. That would kill it and give it time to dry, on the stump. Still, they lost approx. 15% of everything they floated.

[KiwiCharlie]

G'day Fla_D,

Thats real interesting, and makes me want to have a play around with that style.  They look like great slabs.  Very light coloured wood.  Thanks for taking the time to post those pics, I really appreciate that.
I might head on over to the behind the forum and talk with Jeff on the posting pic sizes. ;)
Cheers
Charlie.

[CHARLIE]

That's some pretty cypress Fla_D!  I find log salvage from rivers intriguing.  There is a company up around Superior, Wisconsin that has been pulling logs out of Lake Superior for several years now. Stuff that was felled in the late 1800's. Very tight growth rings and they are pulling up figured maple, birch, oak and pine. The cold water and lack of oxygent has kept the wood in pretty good shape but they say the wood stinks until a finish is put on it. They are getting big bucks per board foot. Someday I want to go up there and see their operation.

Tom, it's Cattywhumpus and Kitty Cornered. I ain't never heard of Kittywhumpus. Leave it up to a Yank to mess up good English language. Sheesh, can't they ever get it right!  ;D

[Fla._Deadheader]

I have some that is also a reddish hue. I saw some Heart Cypress that looked like Red Cedar after it had a finish applied. Seems that there are several variations in color. There isn't that much of a smell, after it dries a little. Most of the smell comes from silt where the logs have been covered.

  I heard that the operation you are referring to, has filed for Bankruptcy??

[KiwiCharlie]

G'day Charlie,

Ok, you got me, whats Kitty Cornered, or is it the same as Cattywhumpus? ???
I can see Im gonna have to throw some good Kiwi lingo in here soon, to get my own back!!  ;) :D
Cheers
Charlie.

[Haytrader]

Here we say "katty corner" which means, for example, dioginally across an intersection.

One of my Dads, and I assume it was handed down from Grandpa, favorite sayings is "Look at that coyote run. He is faster than a striped assed ape."
Have any of you guys ever seen a striped assed ape?

Fast, huh?   :D :D

[CHARLIE]

Kiwi Charlie, Catywhumpus and Kitty Corner is esentially the same thing. Catywhumpus means it is Kitty Cornered. :

[DanG]

Charlie, that is a concise and thorough explanation of the situation, if I ever heard one.  It places them precisely in perspective with one another as surely as if you had related them to their close kinship with the term "whankiejawed."

Haytrader, I have never had any difficulty relating to the supposed speed of the proverbial "striped-assed ape.  I have but to harken back to the stripes placed upon my own posterier, in the days of my misspent youth, to appreciate the cause of his swiftness.

[KiwiCharlie]

G'day DanG
Thanks for that, I dont even want to get into what "whankiejawed." means.    Or is that the same too!  Sounds like it could be.  Seems you have a lot of words for the same meaning.  Guess that happens when you have so many people/states/distance there.  Here, we are so small, one term seems to spread through the whole place!
Makes it a bit easier.  We too have a term for really fast, but this is a family forum, so I wont go further....
Cheers
Charlie.