Dancing with the Devil

[WDH]

I cut pecan ( ) today, so I am a little beat up and put out.  I cut one board today that even a PhD in geometry could not figure out  .  I am going to either have to have a serious talk with the genus Carya, or either come to the conclusion that this genus cannot be rehabilitated  :-\.

I have 6 more logs to go and not as much appetite to saw them as I had when I started.  Anybody need any bowed, thick-n-thin, split, green pecan boards for a project?  I will make you a deal.  They are free  :D.

[hackberry jake]

I have some of the very same boards!

[thecfarm]

The temperature is about 30° here now. I can think of a project real fast.   :D
By the way,did someone mention PIE????

[mikeb1079]

tell me kid....have you ever danced with the devil by the pale moonlight?

i'm sorry to hear that your dance turned so sour wdh.   :'(  however i believe i read that you're retired, live in georgia (where the temps are in the 70s?, and have a 200 acre woodlot.  now i don't feel so sorry for you anymore.   :D :laugh:

[WDH]

:'(  however i believe i read that you're retired, live in georgia (where the temps are in the 70s?, and have a 200 acre woodlot.  now i don't feel so sorry for you anymore.   :D :laugh:

I guess that if you put it like that, then things are not too bad at all.  What is a little pecan misery in the big scheme of things  ??? :D.

Ray, maybe we need to stick to the nuts  .

[mikeb1079]

 :D :D :D

pecan is just there to remind you of how nice it is to saw anything else.   

[WDH]

The problem is that I also have three hackberry logs to saw, too  . 

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

 smiley_horserider

[hackberry jake]

The problem is that I also have three hackberry logs to saw, too  . 

Oh, I see how it is, discriminating against the ole hackberry, and I thought I was welcome here  :(

[WDH]

Jake,

You have a tendency to twist and warp.  This can be overlooked  :D.

[Po-Jo]

so is there any hope for pecan wood? other than the smoker? I had always thought there must be something you can use/ build with that wood, even if its a barn / chicken coup , tho I was hoping more for flooring , interior wall, heck even some type of furniture,

[5quarter]

WDH...cut your 3 hackberrys, stack em up and pile those pecans on top to keep everything in order.  ;) :D

[bama20a]

so is there any hope for pecan wood? other than the smoker? I had always thought there must be something you can use/ build with that wood, even if its a barn / chicken coup , tho I was hoping more for flooring , interior wall, heck even some type of furniture,

Yep,There is if you know how to work with it,Look here.https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php/topic,62883.0.html

[ND rancher]

WDH,  I'm wondering, if you deliver I would take it of your hands.(just saying) I would like to meet this  wood you talk about. Remember I'm new and (like a teenager) nothing is impossible!     Keith

[CalebL]

Why do you guys have such a problem with pecan?  Put a 10 degree blade on and crank your tensioner as far as it will go and have at it.  I also found a diesel/bar oil lube works really well. 

[mesquite buckeye]

I cut pecan ( ) today, so I am a little beat up and put out.  I cut one board today that even a PhD in geometry could not figure out  .  I am going to either have to have a serious talk with the genus Carya, or either come to the conclusion that this genus cannot be rehabilitated  :-\.

I have 6 more logs to go and not as much appetite to saw them as I had when I started.  Anybody need any bowed, thick-n-thin, split, green pecan boards for a project?  I will make you a deal.  They are free  :D.

Just keep flippin that log till they don't curl no mo.

[WH_Conley]

Do what I do with Hickory. Make 4 cuts, call it a cross tie and cut the slabs into firewood.

If anybody wants anything else out of Hickory, the price goes up enough to cover the nerve pills. ;D

[mesquite buckeye]

Why do you guys have such a problem with pecan?  Put a 10 degree blade on and crank your tensioner as far as it will go and have at it.  I also found a diesel/bar oil lube works really well.

Or a 9, or maybe a 7. I don't get what all the hubub is about. Can't imagine the slabs curl up more than 6 or 8 inches during the cut. Big deal. Once you get the tension out, should be no problemo. Try some big, curvy lateral branches on a mesquite or a cottonwood if you want to see some drama.

[OneWithWood]

Danny, this is but a test from the wood god.

Your task, or trial if you prefer, is to accept the shenanigans of those logs and make something beautiful and useful out of them.

It can be done and you are just the man to do it  :D

I think those little sticks used to impart flavor to cooked meats are a true thing of beauty! 

[dgdrls]

For us northerners who only saw Pecan's cousin the Hickory as I understand,
is this true?

"Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty."

― Holly Black

anyone care to share some Pecan pics?

DGDrls

[hackberry jake]

heres one


 

[CalebL]

hahahah........Nice.  I have some pics of some 24" wide pecan slabs though......to be continued........

[SwampDonkey]

I had some 2" yellow birch sawed some time ago, just part of a whack that I wanted random thickness and width from some logs. There was 2 or 3 of those that twisted like a spiral staircase. I never looked close at them to see what was going on with the grain. But they came from nice logs. At least they was nice when I hauled them in to mill. Never know sometimes. Maybe I got traded. :D

[WDH]

Not a blade or a lube issue, but a tension in the log issue.  Did not matter if you flipped the log after each and every cut.  Nothing you can do about some logs except cut the lumber thick like was mentioned.  Maybe the other logs will behave better  .

[Magicman]

I have seen smaller Pecan logs that could/would not be sawed.  My experience has been that the larger the log is, better it behaves.