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(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/31055/l2.jpg) Got the call last week about this one. He has 43 trees in all and they all go. We are getting 4 12's and a 8' out of them. The pics are of two trees.
Looks like some really nice saw logs.
Those are really nice logs. 8)
Oak?
Its all pine and Purdy. 8)
thats a nice wack-o-logs ,,,,
jim
Lookin good!
That load scaled out at 1211bf not bad. Will have 4-5 more loads to day.
Is that spruce pine?
Very nice bunch of Pine! smiley_thumbsup
Pretty big stuff, unusual looking pine for the south? some kind of northern species? bark looks like it,
Quote from: WDH on January 09, 2015, 07:37:50 AM
Is that spruce pine?
I've got spruce....
I've got pine . . .
. . . but haven't heard of both in one log.
Not trying to smart - that's just a new one for me.
I consider WDH one of the Wood ID Experts on the Forum - darn near CSI worthy!
Agree with the CSI on that one! its the whitish colors on the bark that are throwing me, and the relative thinness of the bark, If indeed it's SYP. I have to bet it is a tight growth growing lot. Just not much of a colored heart from viewing the photos.
Andries
Your lucky day.
Pinus glabra.. spruce pine ....... Hmmm. Is this a new way to link?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinus_glabra
Got some more done today. So far we have 91 logs most are 16'.
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The big stack up beside the tree is over 7' tall. We are only going down to a 12" top. A lot of them are 24" or bigger. And Yes It is SYP. I counted rings and the youngest one is 56yo and one was 72yo.
The second load scaled at 1745bf 8)
Yarn,
Very nice logs. I cut some nice ones too, today.
Oh yea! looking like SYP for sure now! go figure the pictures aye? let us know how it goes now,, happy for you, nice stack of work for sure,
Sure wish my clients had logs that nice....... ::)
Congrats Yarn, those logs should make for some really good milling!
Quote from: Delawhere Jack on January 09, 2015, 08:22:52 PM
Sure wish my clients had logs that nice....... ::)
Congrats Yarn, those logs should make for some really good milling!
Nice batch of logs 8)
Quality logs make quality lumber.
Always nice to pull up and find a whack of logs like yours to mill ;D
Them logs look a lot nicer than the zillion ratty, dirty little poles I'm working on right now! ::)
Nice logs like that are a dream to cut. 8) 8) 8) 8)
Ok so it looks like most of it is going to be 8x8's and 2x lumber. cutting a timber log home kit. 8x8 walls and 2x decking, should go good. I still have 60+ logs to get and bring to the house. It will put it over 150 logs. I will get more pics this week of the stack. When you stack 24-30" logs you make a mountain of wood.
Here is a few of the good ones ;D
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Well, they should keep you busy for a day or two. :D :D :D
I like it! not sure if I see it right, but I hope you are spared from rain, that looks like it could get mucky,,
Its not bad wet, Its just the field wasn't cut last year. On a Red rock bed, so solid.
Man thats a few loads, I cut 35-40 pines up at my place in mtn view during the summer that were 30-40 feet till the first limb and 10-18 inches at the tops and i just stacked them up. all the mills in that area I should try and have them cut into something
I live in a town called Spruce Pine, which is a mining town in the mountains of western North Carolina, between Boone and Asheville. Locally, spruce pine is the old-timers' name for what a botanist would call Carolina hemlock, or Tsuga carolinensa. I hope I spelled that correctly.
DanG them are nice logs. Maybe I use this post to show customers what kind of logs to have.
Quote from: terrifictimbersllc on January 12, 2015, 07:51:11 AM
DanG them are nice logs. Maybe I use this post to show customers what kind of logs to have.
Lets see
David,
Another case where local common names are misleading. Spruce pine, Pinus glabra, is a yellow pine of the bottomlands of the coastal plain and the flatwoods. Grows along river corridors. It is not the same thing as your hemlock.
You also see this in the Mid-South where the common name "pin oak" refers to water, willow, and laurel oak, and not true pin oak which does not even grow there.
Another note about "Spruce Pine". Even though it is a Yellow Pine, it will not meet SPIB specifications regarding strength, so it does not make it to commercial sawmills. Since it was commonly the only Pine left standing Wild Turkeys often roosted in them hence the common name; "Turkey Pine".
I quite often saw it for landowners since the market for it is very marginal. It also has a unique smell.
It makes nice siding.
Yup, and I have sawn much framing lumber from Spruce Pine logs. SPIB does not matter with a chicken house. :D
You could get away with a goat pen, too.