Myrtle Wood tree

[backwoods sawyer]

Started milling a Myrtle Wood tree this morning, the butt log is 42" on the small end 56" on the butt. The target is all 4x12 for knee braces in a timber frame home. The first log had 1,200 bft it was all swept off, stickered, banded and taken to the kiln/planner a mile down the road. Not a lot of color but lots of bird's eye.
Myrtle Wood is dense and heavy.


 


 


  


 


 


 


 


 

[mesquite buckeye]

Unbelievable stuff.  ;D 8) 8) 8) What kind of money are we talking?

[tmarch]

quite a load of purty stuff.

[WDH]

Inspiring!

[iwiegian]

very nice. 

[highleadtimber16]

Looks quite a bit like western maple. Good work!

[backwoods sawyer]

Unbelievable stuff.  ;D 8) 8) 8) What kind of money are we talking?

Finished up this tree today, three loads to the kiln (3,000bft) It took a total of 8 hours over two days to mill at $75 hr $600.
He was real happy as the last load of logs cost him ($600) to have them hauled across the county and then he had haul the lumber back across the county to the kiln. My set up fee for both places was the same $O.
no pics (phone was sitting at home on the charger) We got to counting rings 70 ft up in the tree at 20 per inch. No real color from decomp anywhere in the tree just green-blond thu out.

[mesquite buckeye]

Good to know, but actually I was wondering what wood like that sells for. ;D Any ideas? These seem like extra nice and straight logs. All the pictures I've seen look like giant shrubs.

[backwoods sawyer]

Being a logger he picked it up for chip prices thru his work kiln charges are $.25 bft so his cost is low. His son builds timber frame home using center line method and considers $4-$6 bft a good buy, good color will send it over $10bft in a hurrry.

As for the shrubs around here those are coming back after the last big harvest of the big oldies like this one. There is a nice little grove out side Myrtle point right on hwy 42 across the river from the powers junction that you can get a good look at some of the trees growth habits. Find where an old stump was and there is a ring of young trees. Kids like the fort-jail concept, racoon like the hollow butts and branch holes for homes. Those defects are what produce the color.
Wheather you walk thru a grove or spend the day sawing Myrtle Wood the smell will stick with you for days like a pine air freshner in the truck.
smiley_airfreshener
Oh MM this dust will find its way into the truck tool boxes ect ect no matter what you do
He took the extra step of brooming every piece and removing even the slightest amount of bark, sawdust will leave water marks and bark sets once kiln dried.

[backwoods sawyer]

This is a Myrtle Wood that I milled up quite sometime ago but it shows good color thru out. From greens to browns. Yet is only in the mid range of color Myrtle Wood can produce.


 

[gfadvm]

Backwoods, That is just beautiful! Really wish that grew here!

[captain_crunch]

Sure do stink when you saw the stuff >:( >:( >:( least on circle mill

[backwoods sawyer]

 :D yes they do have a smell to them,
I was up in  Lorane recently an noticed a blue ford truck for sale near the store, You happen to know if it is still there?