Logs to drool over!

[Okrafarmer]

My wood that looks like that is sweetgum.

[Peter Drouin]

My wood that looks like that is sweetgum.

No sweetgum in NH  ;D

[DR Buck]

This is the last spalted maple I milled.   It was more of a fight than a milling job.   ;D

[Okrafarmer]

My wood that looks like that is sweetgum.

No sweetgum in NH  ;D

Ain't you lucky!

[Peter Drouin]

My wood that looks like that is sweetgum.

No sweetgum in NH  ;D

Ain't you lucky!

And I'm going to stay here too ;D

[cutterboy]

Black Birch I sawed last November.


 


 

[mikeb1079]

cutterboy that is beautiful.  i too was stunned by the first birch tree i opened up.  for me it's right up there with walnut in terms of "wow" factor. 

[longtime lurker]

 

 



 
A place to post pictures. 8)

One of the several raintrees (monkey pod) Samanea saman we've slabbed in the last two years. Not the biggest, but maybe the prettiest.

[customsawyer]

That there is not ugly.

[dboyt]

Wow!  That monkeypod has some of the wildest grain I've ever seen!  High dollar stuff for sure.  The birch is nice, too, especially when bookmatched like that.

[longtime lurker]

 ... and then we flipped it over and came at it from the other side



 



 

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

The title fits.....Logs to Drool Over.

[cutterboy]

cutterboy that is beautiful.  i too was stunned by the first birch tree i opened up.  for me it's right up there with walnut in terms of "wow" factor.

Thanks Mike. I think Black Birch is one of the most beautiful hardwoods. It's very underrated. My brother calls it "poor man's cherry"

[cutterboy]

Lurker, that is one beautiful hunk of wood!

[longtime lurker]

We recovered ten large 2" thick slabs, half a dozen or so smaller 1 1/2" thick slabs, and a 4" (across the heart) from that one log, and a whole lotta sawdust. All showed fantastic grain - even for monkey pod which is always pretty.

Sadly - here at least - they aren't worth much. Limited population, long way to freight it to where the peoples live yada yada yada. My agent will do well from them though.
Might clear a carton of beer on each, and I don't drink expensive beer. Mind, there are worse things in the world then having a dozen cartons of beer in the fridge. :D

[Ianab]

I'd be hauling pieces of wood like that to some place where they do sell.

Someone is going to build $2,000+ tables out of those, they can afford to pay you $500 for the wood.

Do the sums on 10 slabs like that, and it's worth a trip to the big smoke with a trailer load.  ;)

Ian

[cutterboy]

Shagbark Hickory and a nice cherry



  

  

  

 

[WDH]

That hickory sure is nice.  Did you slab the cherry?

[cutterboy]

That hickory sure is nice.  Did you slab the cherry?

No, I sawed it into one inch boards. I had no trouble selling them. It's hard to decide how to saw a log like that, but I guess really nice lumber will always be in demand whatever form it's in.

[WDH]

It is hard to mess up a log like that one.  Very nice.  I have a soft spot for cherry  .

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

  I have a soft spot for cherry  .

This being said, you may want to put your Cherry under lock and key at night.  :D

[WDH]

I saw some yellow poplar logs laying at the side of the yard of a guy that I know, so I stopped in and asked what he was going to do with them.  Offered to saw them on halves, but he said that he did not need any lumber, but that I could have them.  Time goes by.  More time goes by.  Then, more time goes by.  Finally, today, I went and got the rotten logs  .  Well, not quite totally rotten, just close.



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Almost perfect spalting  .



 



 

Sometimes it is nice to get lucky.

[customsawyer]

You are the man.

[Peter Drouin]

That's what I like the most about opening up a log . You never know what's inside.
So what is the plan, selling or use it?  :D

[fishpimp]

Lucky dawg!!!
Ok I'm gonna let mine lay around and rot just a lil bit more.