cant hook advice

[WDH]

Wow, those are beautiful pecan logs!

[Magicman]

All 1X8's flat sawn.  The good thing is that it is a freshly felled tree.

[Dan_Shade]

i have a hard time believing that there can be anything good of a pecan tree!

well, i guess it does have pretty lumber....

[WDH]

Pecan is really good at one thing.  Maybe even the very best.

Dropping limbs . 

There are some constants and truths in life like gravity, time is inexorable, and pecan limbs fall.

[Magicman]

Pecan trees are not my friend at my tree farm.  I kill hundreds each year along with Sweetgums and Honey Locust.  Crows and other birds drop pecans everywhere and the saplings know something about surviving.

Yes, large trees make pretty lumber.  I have build various furniture with it including clocks, bedroom suites, and tables.  I once destroyed a ¾ completed Grandfather clock that decided to start moving.  The thing was trying to take itself apart, so I helped it.  Never again.

A good clear old growth limbless log can be relatively stable.  We will see how this one behaves.  I'm tempted to quarter and rift saw it.  Maybe not.  If I flat saw it, he will get grade, quarter, and rift.  We will see.   

[WDH]

You might think about sawing some wide boards from the center 6" and then turn up the two (top and bottom) cants to modify q-saw them.  I love the vertical grain of q-sawn pecan.

[Magicman]

Yup, that is the method that I was thinking about.  I'll make the final decision when she is up on the sawmill.  I've got to get rid of that pith area.

[AvT]

I kinda like the wooden cant hook I bought a little while before I got the mill. It just feels nice. I remember the guys at woodmizer trying to get me to buy the logrite but I wasn't interested at all as I hadn't heard of logrite at that time.  If I ever consider one in the future I'm gonna hang two 200 lb guys on it and if it bends at all I won't buy it.  I am one who always is looking for a snipe.  The logrite looks like it was engineered to have an eight foot pipe slid over it.  I never had much mercy for tools.  If it broke I'd try another one.