Whatcha Sawin' 2021 ??

RAYAR · April 22, 2021, 01:57:29 PM

Quote from: YellowHammer on April 22, 2021, 08:47:46 AM
Hey, if you want a long haul job, come on down here to Alabama and I'll get you to saw some of my logs. I can pay you with a fishing trip or food. :D :D I don't have any money, I spent it all on the sawmill. :D :D

I figured you would've said you spent it all on fishing gear. :D :D

TimW · April 22, 2021, 02:35:07 PM

Quote from: WV Sawmiller on April 22, 2021, 12:12:50 PM
Brandi,

If he comes in with an Aggie hat Robert probably wouldn't even sell him the sawdust. I probably would not either. :D

Well then............Gig'em. ;D
hugs, Brandi

cutterboy · April 22, 2021, 07:23:51 PM

I sawed my first logs for this year yesterday. I'm late getting started this year because I got an order for green firewood this spring and just finished it. I'm a bit confused about the logs I'm sawing.....let me explain.
A neighbor had a tree taken down beside his driveway and offered me any of the wood I wanted for free. A nice looking aspen I thought. I cut the tree into logs and transported them to my log deck. When I opened the log the wood did not look like aspen. It looked more like yellow poplar. But yellow poplar doesn't grow up here. At least that's what I thought. I've never sawed yellow poplar before so I'm not sure but I've seen a lot of pictures of it here on the Forestry Forum. Take a look at these pictures and tell me what you think.

The pictures don't show it but the heartwood has some green in it. Do you think it's yellow poplar?

Happy sawing.....Cutter

KenMac · April 22, 2021, 07:37:11 PM

Quote from: cutterboy on April 22, 2021, 07:23:51 PM
I sawed my first logs for this year yesterday. I'm late getting started this year because I got an order for green firewood this spring and just finished it. I'm a bit confused about the logs I'm sawing.....let me explain.
A neighbor had a tree taken down beside his driveway and offered me any of the wood I wanted for free. A nice looking aspen I thought. I cut the tree into logs and transported them to my log deck. When I opened the log the wood did not look like aspen. It looked more like yellow poplar. But yellow poplar doesn't grow up here. At least that's what I thought. I've never sawed yellow poplar before so I'm not sure but I've seen a lot of pictures of it here on the Forestry Forum. Take a look at these pictures and tell me what you think.

The pictures don't show it but the heartwood has some green in it. Do you think it's yellow poplar?

Happy sawing.....Cutter

Looks like what I know as Tulip Poplar.

WV Sawmiller · April 22, 2021, 08:54:01 PM

If that ain't tulip poplar it's his twin brother. I'm waiting on the experts to respond to this one.

terrifictimbersllc · April 22, 2021, 09:18:55 PM

Yep yp

doc henderson · April 22, 2021, 09:33:22 PM

had this third of an oak so before dark I decided to get some quarter sawing in. the sparks were beautiful. see the did something dumb thread.

Southside · April 22, 2021, 10:19:37 PM

Yup - that's Yellow Poplar, the green will dull to brown in the heart wood.

cutterboy · April 23, 2021, 06:55:14 AM

Quote from: Southside on April 22, 2021, 10:19:37 PM
Yup - that's Yellow Poplar, the green will dull to brown in the heart wood.

Thanks guys for confirming my suspicions. I am surprised to find yellow poplar growing here in north central Massachusetts. I'll have to keep my eyes open and check to see if some of my aspen trees are really yellow poplar.

Ed_K · April 23, 2021, 07:28:35 AM

If the sawdust smelled like aftershave it's tulip poplar. I have done TSI work down around Northampton and Westhampton and cut a few and they all smelled like aftershave.

RonG · April 23, 2021, 09:41:24 AM

My guess on the logs would have been cottonwood.

alan gage · April 23, 2021, 09:43:14 AM

Quote from: RonG on April 23, 2021, 09:41:24 AM
My guess on the logs would have been cottonwood.

That was my thought as well.

No yellow poplar here so I can't compare the two but the exterior bark, rusty colored inner bark, and the wood itself all look like the Eastern Cottonwood I've milled.

Alan

Dave Shepard · April 23, 2021, 01:07:40 PM

Did you look around for a horse relieving himself after you cut into the log? If so, it's not tulip. The end of the logs look like tulip, but the bark doesn't to me. Very easy to confuse tulip and ash in log form.

WV Sawmiller · April 23, 2021, 01:30:42 PM

Dave,

If you are correct on what Tulip poplar smells like I think Ed_K needs to change his aftershave. :D

WDH · April 23, 2021, 01:37:10 PM

Well, at least one yellow poplar grew in your area. They may now be extinct there, but there was at least one up to a few days ago

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alan gage · April 23, 2021, 03:46:55 PM

Quote from: Dave Shepard on April 23, 2021, 01:07:40 PMVery easy to confuse tulip and ash in log form.

I just looked up some pictures of tulip bark and you're correct that it does look at awful like like ash. Makes me think even more the posters logs are cottonwood. The bark fissures look more straight and coarse than the interlaced diamonds of ash and, so it would seem, tulip poplar.

Alan

Dave Shepard · April 23, 2021, 08:31:25 PM

Quote from: WV Sawmiller on April 23, 2021, 01:30:42 PM
Dave,

If you are correct on what Tulip poplar smells like I think Ed_K needs to change his aftershave. :D

I said if it smelled bad, it wasnt tulip.

Brad_bb · April 23, 2021, 09:10:02 PM

I'm tired of milling Osage. The dust is so fine and I get covered along with the rest of the shop. Everything in the shop is yellow. I also go through a lot of bands, 1-1.5 per log. I have 17 logs of the original 79 left. I've got about 5 big ones and the rest are smaller 10"-13" dia brace logs that will go faster. Here are some 5.5" square posts, and the pic with the burn barrel burning bark and sawdust there is a 13' 8x10, and a 13' 5.75x10 live edge beam.

WDH · April 23, 2021, 10:14:25 PM

The pics posted are yellow poplar. Yellow poplar is diffuse porous. Ash is ring porous. The yellow poplar wood in the pics is diffuse porous. Yellow poplar has alternate branching. Ash has opposite branching. Not similar in the least. Yellow poplar has a simple leaf. Ash has a compound leaf. Not similar in the least. The two trees are do not look alike at all to me.

Arcticmiller · April 24, 2021, 01:18:34 AM

Milling up a mess of white spruce today...the back is getting a workout doing 2x12's and 2x6's for an upcoming project. Muscling around logs 26" at the butt end, wouldn't want to be without my big cant hook! My back will be feeling it in the morning. I think I need a forklift.

Ordered up the parts for an atv log arch to help the shuttling go smoother once the snow melts...the joys of an all manual mill!

Finishing it up with a home-brew helps with the recovery process.

cutterboy · April 24, 2021, 07:04:58 AM

Quote from: WDH on April 23, 2021, 10:14:25 PM
The pics posted are yellow poplar. Yellow poplar is diffuse porous. Ash is ring porous. The yellow poplar wood in the pics is diffuse porous.

Thankyou WDH. I know ash and these are not. BTW, they did not smell very nice. Kinda like "essence of manure pile"

alan gage · April 24, 2021, 09:41:47 AM

Another notch for Cottonwood.
I should know better than to question WDH but everything I've seen and heard matches cottonwood, which i've milled a fair amount of. But like I said I've never seen a tulip poplar in log form.
Alan