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Title: You have to be kidding Ray....
Post by: POSTON WIDEHEAD on September 25, 2017, 10:11:45 PM
So Ray from The Cfarm called and wanted me to come up and saw a few logs for him......

:o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o




 (https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/24625/CFarm.jpeg?easyrotate_cache=1506391768)
Title: Re: You have to be kidding Ray....
Post by: reedco on September 25, 2017, 10:14:29 PM
          To much curve for a boat may be bow and arrow.
Title: Re: You have to be kidding Ray....
Post by: tule peak timber on September 25, 2017, 10:14:41 PM
Ships knees. I had to write about them in second grade.
Title: Re: You have to be kidding Ray....
Post by: 4x4American on September 25, 2017, 10:15:25 PM
Looks like they'd be good contenders for making 8x12's. lol
Title: Re: You have to be kidding Ray....
Post by: POSTON WIDEHEAD on September 25, 2017, 10:16:26 PM
Quote from: tule peak timber on September 25, 2017, 10:14:41 PM
Ships knees. I had to write about them in second grade.

Can you make me a table?  :D :D :D
Title: Re: You have to be kidding Ray....
Post by: Dave Shepard on September 25, 2017, 10:18:46 PM
 I saw this at the Sobon/Carlon workshop yesterday.



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Title: Re: You have to be kidding Ray....
Post by: Darrel on September 25, 2017, 11:34:50 PM
If you hold your mouth just right while you split the pith, you'll stand a good chance of those things straightening right out.  8) 8) 8)
Title: Re: You have to be kidding Ray....
Post by: Kbeitz on September 26, 2017, 02:31:40 AM
I got one on my land almost that bad...



 (https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/39553/Moms_tree~0.JPG?easyrotate_cache=1506407475)
Title: Re: You have to be kidding Ray....
Post by: thecfarm on September 26, 2017, 03:18:18 AM
Can't be my place,no rocks!!!!  :D
Title: Re: You have to be kidding Ray....
Post by: sawmilljoe on September 26, 2017, 06:28:21 AM
Come on guy admit it if we could get it locked down on the mill we would try. LOL
Title: Re: You have to be kidding Ray....
Post by: Klicker on September 26, 2017, 06:59:00 AM
The trick is not to lock it down but set up so it can pivot  as you cut it. Rod
Title: Re: You have to be kidding Ray....
Post by: crowhill on September 26, 2017, 08:44:36 AM
There you go Kbeitz a new project, a pivot for sawing semi circles!
Title: Re: You have to be kidding Ray....
Post by: Gearbox on September 26, 2017, 09:31:15 AM
Kbeitz that tree looks like the wood some people want me to run through the firewood processer .
Title: Re: You have to be kidding Ray....
Post by: Percy on September 26, 2017, 10:51:03 AM
Quote from: Kbeitz on September 26, 2017, 02:31:40 AM
I got one on my land almost that bad...



 (https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/39553/Moms_tree~0.JPG?easyrotate_cache=1506407475)
Quote from: POSTONLT40HD on September 25, 2017, 10:11:45 PM
So Ray from The Cfarm called and wanted me to come up and saw a few logs for him......

:o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o




 (https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/24625/CFarm.jpeg?easyrotate_cache=1506391768)
For the life of me, I cant understand why they would grow like that.Regardless, they would make some of the coolest sheds and pergolas and front porch posts. We get some entertaining trees around here too, but a whole patch of them like this?? Not likely....
Title: Re: You have to be kidding Ray....
Post by: sawguy21 on September 26, 2017, 10:55:36 AM
We don't get Atlantic hurricanes. ;D
Title: Re: You have to be kidding Ray....
Post by: 4x4American on September 26, 2017, 12:19:49 PM
Kbeitz yours almost looks like an Indian marker tree.  Does it have scars on the part of it where you'd sit down.  It looks like it has the point too.


Here's an article on it:





http://www.txhtc.org/trees/indian-marker-tree/indian-marker-trees-part-2/
Title: Re: You have to be kidding Ray....
Post by: Grizzly on September 26, 2017, 01:00:15 PM
Here's a sample of a small area near us. Crooked Bush near Hafford, SK.



 (https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/28043/The_Crooked_Bush_2.jpg?easyrotate_cache=1506444910)

I'll let you google the history and science of it as I haven't spent any time with that part. Cindy took the children there one day while I was away on business and they said it was pretty different and interesting.
Title: Re: You have to be kidding Ray....
Post by: Darrel on September 26, 2017, 04:17:28 PM
On my property near the building site.

(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/35121/image~22.jpeg?easyrotate_cache=1506456879)
Title: Re: You have to be kidding Ray....
Post by: Kbeitz on September 26, 2017, 06:18:00 PM
Quote from: 4x4American on September 26, 2017, 12:19:49 PM
Kbeitz yours almost looks like an Indian marker tree.  Does it have scars on the part of it where you'd sit down.  It looks like it has the point too.


Here's an article on it:





http://www.txhtc.org/trees/indian-marker-tree/indian-marker-trees-part-2/

That's what out family thinks it is...

Title: Re: You have to be kidding Ray....
Post by: Magicman on September 26, 2017, 09:26:42 PM
Those trees really do not look like I would think that a 150-200 year old tree would look.   ::)   :P
Title: Re: You have to be kidding Ray....
Post by: pinefeller on September 26, 2017, 09:35:02 PM
Quote from: Kbeitz on September 26, 2017, 02:31:40 AM
I got one on my land almost that bad...



 (https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/39553/Moms_tree~0.JPG?easyrotate_cache=1506407475)

ill have about 50 acres of that in 50 years or so after the ends of all my beautiful red maple "rainbows" die off and the first branch takes over as the leader!