Whatcha Sawin' 2020 ??

[samandothers]

I  too was wondering where Ted was sawing and if it might be Hanging Rock.  I am not familiar the formations there enough to know where it may have been.  

[E-Tex]

This was a very ugly log .... flared butt and limbs starting on the other end.  The bark was slipping so I pealed it off before I put it on the mill.  It was a customers log.  Nice boards on the inside and they got prettier the deeper I cut.  Could I get an I'd for it please.  

 

  

American Elm or Winged Elm.....?????




Edit....  here's Elm from my property in Texas:  


 

[Magicman]

I sawed ERC today.


 
I counted about 30 logs in three different whacks.


 
My customer bringing a log to the sawmill with his Bob Cat.


 
My repeat customer in the center, his son on the right and tailgunner on the left.  This was an hourly rate job and the son left with the lumber before I could get a picture.  :

I sawed half of the logs and will return to saw the remainder when he needs more lumber.

[Magicman]

Could I get an I'd for it please.

Tim, I am seeing Elm.

[Banjo picker]

Thanks guys.  It sure made some nice lumber.  This customer knows how to take care of it too.  He would get an A + from the sticker police.  Banjo

[WV Sawmiller]

  My wife and I went back over to my customer a couple miles away. She took some pictures up there and had made some enlargements of several they liked and took them to the customer. He invited me back to see the lumber we finished cutting last week that he had just unloaded flat stacked. He had since stickered and separated by size and had done a super job IMHO. He still has to get some roofing over the top but his bases are good, his stickers in line and really neat.


 

 

 

 

[SunnyHillFarm]

Banjo, I'm seeing elm also. Does it have an "off" odor?

[Don P]

Dropped this one this morning, this was the third log up, didn't seem worth sawing but looks like a cool post for something.





 

[doc henderson]

looks a little like "Gumby"  the old christian cartoon from our youth!

[Remle]

This was a very ugly log .... flared butt and limbs starting on the other end.  The bark was slipping so I pealed it off before I put it on the mill.  It was a customers log.  Nice boards on the inside and they got prettier the deeper I cut.  Could I get an I'd for it please.  

 

  

American Elm or Winged Elm.....?????




Edit....  here's Elm from my property in Texas:  

Yep, I presume it's dead elm on the left and winged elm on the right. Other wise it wouldn't have taken 6 dumb bells to hold it down so you could take the picture.

Edit : Sorry for the smart remark, seriously I have no clue what it is.

[Banjo picker]

SunnyHillFarm .... I did not notice any unusual smell.  This tree had been cut long enough that I pulled the bark off with my hands before I put it on the mill.  Don't know if that would matter.  I looked in my little tree bark and the bark seems like elm.  Banjo

[WDH]

Banjo,

My first thought was also elm.  Look at end grain for latewood pores in distinct wavy bands.  

[Sedgehammer]

Here's what we are sawing.......



 

 

Oh, wait, you mean logs.....

[Banjo picker]

WDH.  Customer has already picked it up.  Banjo

[E-Tex]

A quick morning job today.  Walnut and Cedar slabs.  747s




 



 



 



 



 



 


Then time for a little clean up!



 

[Magicman]

Nice little job but it looks like you had a tooth out of whack on that Walnut. 

[EOTE]

A quick morning job today.  Walnut and Cedar slabs.

Where do you get Walnut in this part of Texas?  I didn't think they were this far south.

[Brad_bb]

I got a surprise yesterday.  I guess it's week 10 of milling Ash. I picked up a log which I thought was rotted Ash.  It was damp on the outside with bright green and yellow that I thought was some kind of  mold/algae.  I figured I'd sliced it just to make sure it was bad and that's when I got the surprise.  It was not rotted at all.  Not sure if it's box elder or red maple?


 

Then of course, there was this.... Bat Board!

[doc henderson]

I have seen some red fungal stain in maple but never that much or dense.  @GeneWengert-WoodDoc   @WDH .  

[B.C.C. Lapp]

Could I get an I'd for it please.

Tim, I am seeing Elm.

I agree that look like elm.

[WV Sawmiller]

   I betting box elder from others I have seen on this forum. Awful pretty wood.

[Don P]

+1, good score!

[YellowHammer]

Box elder, which is a type of very soft maple.  In the streaks or flags in the picture, there are visible ambrosia beetle galleries, which is normal.   

In box elder, the flags, turn red.  In ambrosia maple, they will turn brown and gray.  Same beetle, different look.

[caveman]

Acer negundo.  The leaves remind me of a trifoliate red maple.  

[Brad_bb]

  In the streaks or flags in the picture, there are visible ambrosia beetle galleries, which is normal.  

Wow, good eyes!  You must have a very clear monitor too to spot that.  Yes there are galleries.