Red

[Peter Drouin]

Cut some cedar today.


  

 

[DanMc]

I love red cedar!  I can't wait to get one of these to my mill!!!

[LittleJohn]

...wish I had Smell-o-vision!!!

I think cedar's have some of the best smells, unless my allergies are going then I have to stay away

[WDH]

Pine Man is cutting cedar  :D.  Nice stuff. 

[Peter Drouin]

But WDH, I think the cedar you have in the south is more Red.

[Magicman]

Yours shows probably the beginning of some degrading in the heart.  I saw some with the same general coloration as yours and then some logs will actually be a deep purple.  The redness will vary from tree to tree.  We have two different Cedars; one with sparse fan like leaves and the other more dense clumps.  I would suspect that the redness is different between the two, but I only see the logs, not the leaves.

[4x4American]

But WDH, I think the cedar you have in the south is more Red.

It would make sense.. they say that the grass grows greener down south...but little do they know, we don't give a turkey, or have a turkey to give at that!

[Darrel]

I was talking to a guy a little while back that plans to cut about 30 cedar trees soon and I may be milling them.  They are WRC though, not ERC.  WRC is not quit as bright a red as this. 

[WDH]

Almost all the ones that I saw have some rot in the middle.  I need some right now.  I don't get much of it. 

[thecfarm]

Looks good.  The Red don't get this far North. Or none on my land.
I have Thuja occidentalis. I have some that size,but it's so rotted hearted it could be used as a piece of pipe. 

[WDH]

Northern white cedar.  The deer like it, right?  Down here, deer will not eat the ERC. 

[thecfarm]

Oh yeah,deer love it. And then some. I was feeding the deer down at the wood yard. I was cutting the bog off in the winter time. I would haul a cedar out and leave it in the yard. My stepson has them eating the needles of the cedar,than they eat the grain.
Brenda's step mother wanted some cedar boughs for her decorations. I said,oh that will be easy. I walked over many acres and found no branches that I could reach,no small trees,none. I finally had to take a peice of wood on the ground and bent a limb down and break it off.

[flatrock58]

 

 
Had a guy at church wanted a few red cedar cut down.  Cutting was not a problem.  Dragging all the limbs to the back of the woods took some time.  The biggest one was bad in the middle.

[fishpharmer]

Flatrock58, good looking erc you cut!  How will they be milled?

[4x4American]

Northern white cedar.  The deer like it, right?  Down here, deer will not eat the ERC.

A few winters back, we had alot of snowfall, so much so that the deer were having a hard time getting around.  I cut a few ERC down for them to reach and they stripped it...but then again, they say that sailers ate their boots when they got real hungry so it would make sense...

[flatrock58]

 fishpharmer
I made some stump stools out of the really bad log.  The others will be cut in to 4/4 and 5/4 boards for projects.



 

[fishpharmer]

Those stools will be handy.

[red]

It's not really Red. But I had Orange hair people called RED/Ginger , it's now short and very Gray

[Percy]

But WDH, I think the cedar you have in the south is more Red.

It would make sense.. they say that the grass grows greener down south...but little do they know, we don't give a turkey, or have a turkey to give at that!

Im assumin in this instance, turkey = rats..uhhh....you know.......