Here is my entry
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Wow! Glad to see I'm not the only one that gets to tackle ugly logs.
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Ugly logs can make some real nice furniture wood
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then there is the old wooly mamoth who was ugly to rotate
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and the flying elephants foot who was ugly on the owner wallet
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an ugly log contest needs to have more then one catagory and lots of food prizes ;D
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Sometimes you get a whole load of ugliness.
I kinda like to look at ug-lee logs. but I REALLY like to see them opened up. Than the ug-lee turns into beautiful.
MM, do you get anything out of those? I have a handful of them and it's not real hard to just let them sit.
Allan
Magic.....FLOWER POTS! :)
The exquisite beauty of the heartwood is transparent. ;D
Quote from: Magicman on April 28, 2014, 08:27:51 AM
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Sometimes you get a whole load of ugliness.
Looks sorta light to me...
Hmmm... Maybe add a bit of hide and see if you can DRUM up some more business???
Herb
I like this idea. ;D 8) 8) 8)
I believe Magicman has won this contest.
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Since no Walnut log can ever be ugly, I guess that this one has "character". ;D
I have heard the myth that ugly logs are attracted to certain millers, birds of a feather, and all that!!! 8)
I will, however, openly admit that y'all turn out some stunning wood from those ugly logs.
MM bring them clear center logs up my way. I need some of them to make stumpkins. Now that I have people wanting stumpkins I can't get a hollow log.
Walnut.
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And cherry.
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These both ended up yielding some nice wood. Sadly they both had iron poisoning....
The iron poisoning is obvious at 7:00 on the Walnut log. ;D
Quote from: Delawhere Jack on April 28, 2014, 06:29:11 PM
Walnut.
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And cherry.
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Looks like you are milling in the burbs. Did the neighbors come and watch?
These both ended up yielding some nice wood. Sadly they both had iron poisoning....
I cut an ugly one today. A log in the shape of a question mark. I guess that the question is "Should it have been sawn or cut into firewood"? Time will tell.
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Bench? ;D
$300? :)
Bench? Who knows. I just thought it was a cool shape. Maybe someone will fall in love with it, Looks like it is sold to Dave Shepard for $300 :D :D.
It has a Chinaberry look??
Kinda looked like Cherry to me. I like that pivoting log loading board. Is it patented?
MM,
Yes, chinaberry. Ever seen a straight one? ;D.
Jake, yes, I have the patent. I can send you the plans for just $300 :D.
MM has a good wood eye! At just $300 while supplies last, if you buy within the next 10 minutes, But wait... Theres More!
You can get two for the price of one if you order now...
QuoteEver seen a straight one?
Oh yes, I have straight ones. Sweep but straight. I do not know that I have seen one as crooked as that one, but mine are not worth $300 either. ;D
Quote from: WDH on April 28, 2014, 09:34:39 PM
You can get two for the price of one if you order now...
Just pay handling charges. :D
Operators are standing BUY!
I should not tell this story, but I got my chainsaw pinched when felling this one. Not my best effort. A bit of misjudgement on my part. Led to a whole host of interesting developments. A whack of long chains, a 4-wheel drive truck, some luck, and I got this fine specimen down and did not even ruin the bar on the saw.
Miraculously.
I don't think I would have told that one, Pop. ::)
You mean to tell me, that it was hard to judge which way that one wanted to go? No way smiley_chop
It was only twisted in about 6 directions. I should have asked for help on the Chainsaw Board before trying to fell it, but I am afraid to go in there :). It can be a dark and scary place.
If it makes you feel any better, The red oak I dropped (Spearment Cookie) next to the saw shed fell in the exact direction I wanted it to... Right into some smaller sweet gums. I figured it would just smash the gums, and it probably would have, but I didn't follow through on the felling cut and it was a slow decent. It hit the sweet gums and then rolled off of them straight towards the sawshed. It missed it by about four feet. Some of the branches hit it, but I don't build no pansy sawsheds ;D
You have to watch sweetgum. That is what it will do.
It is what is on the inside that counts.
Quote from: WDH on April 28, 2014, 09:44:22 PM
It was only twisted in about 6 directions. I should have asked for help on the Chainsaw Board before trying to fell it, but I am afraid to go in there :). It can be a dark and scary place.
Almost as scary as the food section :o
And I will match MM walnut with a Doug fir
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Sawed a bunch of crotches like the DF shown in the last post, used them to make the sides for benches. The really curved logs got sawed for making the tops of headboards for beds and the backs of benches. Sorry, no pictures, it was 20 years ago.
Someone say sweetgum?
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Not as Charactered as MM's but turned out better than I thought.
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I had a hard time cutting this one into splitable firewood :D
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Gotta be bad when even your firewood is crooked. :D
You folks have made my day. I can see I'm amongst friends. I like to see what's in the gnarly ones too. My current quest is for figured Hard Maple for my flintlock blanks. I have a bunch of candidates in waiting.
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I drove 16 miles to saw 6 "very nice" Pine logs for a friend. They may not have been ugly, but it was not a pretty sight either. :-\
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I drove 16 miles to saw 6 "very nice" Pine logs for a friend. They may not have been ugly, but it was not a pretty sight either. :-\
What were you asked to cut out those sticks? :)
16 miles isn't too bad. Thats like a board foot a mile ;D
MM...I can see the branches laying on the ground there...where did you say the logs were?
;) ;D
They look dead, too.
Sprucebunny,
Looks like something is living in your log :).
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I had a hard time cutting this one into splitable firewood :D
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Wow, I like your quad with the snow tracks on it! What is it, did you do the upgrade and how do you like it?
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Quote from: sprucebunny on April 29, 2014, 10:04:49 AM
I had a hard time cutting this one into splitable firewood :D
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Wow, I like your quad with the snow tracks on it! What is it, did you do the upgrade and how do you like it?
And are you and the quad
HUGE or is your chainsaw
tiny? :D
The old beech had a hollow, you can see it in the log behind and to the left.
Love my quad and tracks. They are both from '04 and have been great. A Honda with Boivin tracks ( no longer made) They are normal size ??? and ya, small chainsaw :D Log had to be attacked from both sides....
I have a new name for 'beech' after trying to split the rounds in half using a maul and a wedge..... I just wanted them to weigh under 100 pounds so I could get them up on the splitter but even after cutting a starting groove in the end of the rounds, after a few wacks, the wedge just bounced out ! Guess they are too wet ???
My entrant. It won't come down until next week. He wants slabs out if it. I dunno about that. ::)
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Nastiest ERC I've ever seen. Probably more weight in metal than there is in wood. :D
Sprucebunny,Easy,tap those wedges in easy and I mean tap. I have split beech in 4 foot lengths,green. You can whale on a iron wedge all day. won't matter a bit. Just hit the wedges easy,it will go in,I know it will,maybe an inch,I don't know,depends,when in a little way,than whale on it. I have split beech 18 inches to 2 feet across in four foot lengths to load onto a trailer to bring it out of the woods. I have had 4-6 wedges in one stick many times. Read the end of the stick too. See a crack,that is where to put the wedge. Never used a chainsaw on any of it.
Quote from: nomad on April 29, 2014, 08:28:30 PM
My entrant. It won't come down until next week. He wants slabs out if it. I dunno about that. ::)
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Wow, that thing looks possessed! :o I'd be careful about cutting into that! What kind of tree is that???
Nomad, The outside of that log/tree is pretty amazing but I'm thinking the inside won't be as good.
Ray, I tapped the wedge in like you say and after a couple good wacks, it squirted back out :o
I'll either split it with a saw or wait till they dry a little
I did this 30 years ago. If you was not so far I would bring my wedges,noticed I said mine,and I would split them for you. Might be the wedges. ;) The one I used,came off the Mayflower. ;D They was tapered all the way. The newer ones are blunt, The Mayflowers ones come right to a point.
Quote from: sprucebunny on April 29, 2014, 08:44:13 PM
Nomad, The outside of that log/tree is pretty amazing but I'm thinking the inside won't be as good.
You're right. The center is hollowed/rotted; guaranteed.
Nomad, I'm pretty sure you would have won this contest but will be disqualified on account that your entry is a tree not a log. Sorry. :(
(I feel I missed my calling in life. Should have worked for the NCAA. ::) ;D)
I can't wait to see you open that thing up!!! I have cut some cedars that had spots like that. It looks like where it tried to head from a birdpecker attack on the inside.
Looked at some logs tonite that a customer wants me to mill. They were ugly Giant Sequoias. I talked him out of it. Lot of work for low quality boards. They were giants.
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They also have x's on them. They were all culled for some reason... I still want to try sawing one...
Redbeadrd the big one has some cracks but the rest with yellow dots look to be sound.
They mill up real nice and do not have issues with cracking or stress even 24" wide 1" stay stable. Large knotts like 3"+ when cut flush with the log would be an issue. The quality of the lumber in them might surprize you ;) high stump the butt log past all the swell and you should get out of the spangle in the butt log.
Quote from: sprucebunny on April 29, 2014, 08:44:13 PM
Nomad, The outside of that log/tree is pretty amazing but I'm thinking the inside won't be as good.
Ray, I tapped the wedge in like you say and after a couple good wacks, it squirted back out :o
I'll either split it with a saw or wait till they dry a little
I've split some larger Beech and have found that because it frequently grows with a twist, it often works well to split off pieces tangentially, and relatively thinly, starting outside and all the way around until a rectangle is left in the middle. I have heard some call it daisy-wheel. I dreaded when beech was the wood of the day before trying this way.
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Worst one I remember was an old Norway Pine; it was almost a saddle. It was about 30" around, and 9' long and had a sweep in it of over a foot.
Had to keep rotating that stupid log to releave all the stress; slab off a couple of boards and the cant would start to lift off the bed. Got some real nice 1x12's; of course they were only 2' long.
Quote from: redbeard on April 29, 2014, 10:22:41 PM
Looked at some logs tonite that a customer wants me to mill. They were ugly Giant Sequoias. I talked him out of it. Lot of work for low quality boards. They were giants.
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I guess this goes for a supply and demand lesson. I'd jump at the chance to mill those. That cedar, not so much.
Sprucebunny Get someone to run a bead [ the narrow way] across with a welder. 2 or 3 beads on the wedge will do it. It will not pop out. :)
Good idea, Peter. I have a welder :)
I ripped them about half way down with a chainsaw today and most of them split in half but I have the wedge stuck in one of the big maples now....It wasn't ripped very deep cause I ran out of gas. I'll get around to working it out someday...
heres one
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My little helper is sitting on it.
The crane weighed it at 14tons....
Cheers
Justin
Might have to Bibby that one a tad. :)
Quote from: Dave Shepard on May 06, 2014, 08:21:39 PM
Might have to Bibby that one a tad. :)
I had to park the mill a little way away so it didn't get upset with what was coming :D
Justin.
Here is mine. Big trunk from an old Silver maple tree. This bad boy is huge chunk. loaded with flame and quilted wood and some crazy burls on the side as well. over 7ft across and estimated 9000+ pounds.
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:o
That is bad ug-lee.
Nice err uglee. Now whatcha gonna do?? ???
I kinda hope he'll show pictures after he gets done with it. ;D
Yup, defiantly ug-lee!!! But I bet it will be pretty once you open it up.
Quote from: thecfarm on April 29, 2014, 08:49:42 PM
I did this 30 years ago. If you was not so far I would bring my wedges,noticed I said mine,and I would split them for you. Might be the wedges. ;) The one I used,came off the Mayflower. ;D They was tapered all the way. The newer ones are blunt, The Mayflowers ones come right to a point.
I have never understood the idea behind the designs of the wedges you find in hardware stores nowadays. Obviously the Chinese entrepeneur who designed those oversized paperweights never split a log in his life ::)
GOLDDREDGER, you definately have an U-G-L-Y one on your hands; will be very interesting to see the grain once you split her open
Dodgy,that sounds just like my Father. ;D
Haha. Well, I like good tools and am not shy about expressing my opinion of tools, good or bad. I have been thinking of ways that I could improve my crummy modern wedges by tapering them all the way to the point, but they all involve a lot of work that I don't want to do. :D
My father-in-law has an old wedge that he found on his property. He has it hung up for decoration. I want it really badly, but I don't want to ask for it. It is basically shaped like an axehead without the hole for a handle. Tapers gently all the way to the tip. I just know it would work well. Oh well. :)
Mine are just about the same as what you can buy in a hardware store, same thickness,same width,it just the pointy end that is differant. And to tell you the truth,I have not used them in probably 25 years. I know I have them,but don't know where. Some of them was kinda short,from all the years of use. Seem like we had 4-6 of them.
All logs Have beauty hidden in them We just have to find a way to extract it.
Love that sawdust . 8)
I might have a ugly log......but I ain't got no ugly boards..,,
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From an old cherry tree that has been standing dead for several years.
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Charles.. sling_shot
Sometimes you just gotta do what you gotta do with uglee. You did good. :)
Quote from: Magicman on May 20, 2014, 10:36:33 PM
Sometimes you just gotta do what you gotta do with uglee. You did good. :)
You talk'n 'bout me? :o
Quote from: POSTONLT40HD on May 20, 2014, 10:39:24 PMYou talk'n 'bout me? :o
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No but my friend Jon is, and he is pointing the way to ugleee. :D
We look like 2 big logs with lots of sweep. :D
I dont know if thats sweep or burl ;D
Quote from: nomad on April 29, 2014, 08:28:30 PM
My entrant. It won't come down until next week. He wants slabs out if it. I dunno about that. ::)
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Nastiest ERC I've ever seen. Probably more weight in metal than there is in wood. :D
That would be an amazing log for the focal point in the cabin I want to build. Can you ups it to me? ;D ;) In now way at all do I find that log ugly.
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Quote from: nomad on April 29, 2014, 08:28:30 PM
My entrant. It won't come down until next week. He wants slabs out if it. I dunno about that. ::)
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Nastiest ERC I've ever seen. Probably more weight in metal than there is in wood. :D
That would be an amazing log for the focal point in the cabin I want to build. Can you ups it to me? ;D ;) In now way at all do I find that log ugly.
Sorry Jeff, but I butchered that "log" this morning. Nastiest thing I've ever cut.
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Here's an ugleeee chestnut oak we sawed on today.
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Looks and smells beautiful on the inside, though!
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Bill,
That is coyote ug-lee.
Not the ugliest we get, but kind of ugly.
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Made some pretty nice double live edge slabs.
We got this from an even uglier butt log from the same tree (left). The whole thing has scattered little burls throughout.
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There is ugly and then there is Not Ugly. Here is an absolutely beautiful 12' White Oak log that I sawed this morning. 30" butt with one inch taper end to end.
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Sawed 34 full 2X6" for bridge decking plus a bit of side lumber. ;D
Now I am sad. :( Got any logs that look like that in mesquite? :snowball: That would be worth about $5-8K if we could find and cut up one like that. 8) 8) 8)
That log woulda been a good q-saw candidate.
I've never sawn mesquite and really never seen mesquite log.
MBUCKEYE.....is that you in the picture?
No, that is my buddy Superdave. He weighs about half what I do. :-\
He is an old hippie from West Virginia who likes to cut up trees, but especially likes to cut them down. He is the best at that that I have seen. ;D
Super Dave..... :D Thats pretty cool.
Quote from: hackberry jake on September 08, 2014, 03:44:47 PMThat log woulda been a good q-saw candidate.
Yup, I thought about that, but us portable guys just saws um and leaves um. Bridge decking. ;D
My entry, log was on a portable job
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Got Knots?? :D
My candidate was this honey locust which wouldn't fit on the mill until the tree guy split it, still was tight. Branches had branches, too many to count. Client was ecstatic that we got anything out of it (sentimental tree), mostly 6/4 planks, 18-21' wide.
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Tom Did you have a tough time turning that short monster?
Jeff,
Starting at 30"x6'5" and such an irregular surface, it wasn't easy to turn. Client was a female wood artist, slight of frame. One helper didn't show up and her husband had a work emergency which limited his availability. I ended up milling and tailing. I showed her how to bump the turner chain lever while I manned the cant hook. Of course, each turn got easier. I warned her that the planks would probably move but, at 6/4, she'll have some extra to work with.
Tom, good to see the post. Sounds like everyone bailed on you when they saw what you were tackling. What's next... petrified wood?
The ugly logs make some of the prettiest wood. Nice to see this thread as, I'm getting ready to start a search for some wonky wood for a big project.
I work at a shaving mill so we can get some pretty uglee "logs" in. But these are by far some of the worst I've seen while working there. And all of these came in on the same load! Not only were they uglee, they were all oversized, and some too long.
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I think this last one is my favorite, it even had a nice little green patch of grass growing in the middle :D
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Looks like a Frogs hand. :)
Could that be a highly valuable black walnut? ??? ??? ??? ;D :snowball:
That is one ugly out door table base you have there ;D
some of these logs wouldn't even make decent firewood
:D :o :D
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Western Red Cedar. Big and knotty but made for lots of 1X6 fencing.
Dan
knot Ug-lee....Nice log if it were around here. :)
Poston,
Gladly trade our abundant Red Cedar here for some of your Oaks ,Walnuts, ERC's.
Dan
Quote from: Dan R on December 14, 2014, 01:51:27 PM
Poston,
Gladly trade our abundant Red Cedar here for some of your Oaks ,Walnuts, ERC's.
Dan
I'll see....if it fits, it ships. :D