Whatcha Sawin' 2022 ??

[caveman]

I've never seen ambrosia beetles get after wood so aggressively.  

[Beavertooth]

It blew over a little over 5 months ago and was still attached to the root ball until just a few days ago. 

[Magicman]

That is amazing.  The ambrosia beetle holes only appear to be in the heartwood?

[Resonator]

I was gonna guess lead shot from a scatter-gun, but looks like that'd be a whole lotta shootin'.  

[firefighter ontheside]

I chainsawed out 1/4 of that big cherry log and took it to the mill.  It's pretty disappointing due to the ring shake that goes all the way around the log.  I'm quartersawing it, but not getting any wide boards because most boards have a crack and I have to resaw it into 1x4.  It's pretty wood though.

 

 

 

[terrifictimbersllc]

Nice day here today. 1652 bf log scale of 9/4 live edge slabs in a dozen logs. Here's the last log of the day!

 

[Ljohnsaw]

FFOTS,
Are you ¼sawing because of the ring shake to maximize the number of usable boards or is there something about ¼sawn cherry that is special?  Don't have any cherry out here that I'm aware of.

[Old Greenhorn]

Bill, I was out on a tree job with the crew when I got your text and showed your photos to the crew. They all said the same thing: "Man, that sucks!"

[doc henderson]

FFOTS can you take off the other 1/4 to leave a half, then flat saw through that and get some quarter sawn in the mid half of that as you saw?  at least it is obvious so you did not make a project and have it appear later. you win some and loose some.  It is somewhere in the middle.  not a complete loss you can always joint and glue up for smaller projects.  great big logs get your hopes up and often have age/size related issues

[Magicman]

Here's the last log of the day!

You big dummy, but you gotta go big or stay under the porch !!   :D


 
How 'bout a 30" butt X 20' Red Oak ??  :

[Old Greenhorn]

Size matters?  :D :D :D :D :D ;D

[terrifictimbersllc]

Stuff happens when you start showing off.  :D

[firefighter ontheside]

FFOTS,
Are you ¼sawing because of the ring shake to maximize the number of usable boards or is there something about ¼sawn cherry that is special?  Don't have any cherry out here that I'm aware of.

Cherry has very fine medullary rays.  When quarter sawn, the wood has kind of a sparkling look as opposed to something like oak that has big rays.  Since I was having to quarter this log just to be able to mill it, quarter sawing just seemed to make the most sense.  

[firefighter ontheside]

Boy am I glad I have never rolled a log off the back of the mill.  Never.  Do you believe me?

[firefighter ontheside]

 @doc henderson I could possible do that.  I'm not sure I would be able to stand it up like that and even half of the log is still right at the limit of my loader to lift.

[doc henderson]

you know your equipment best.  you could also trim the two outer edges of the final half if that makes sense (at the intersection of the shake ring).  you only gain nice sawn wood in the center.  if you chainsaw it in half (into quarters) then there will be some waste at the widest boards in the middle.  prob. not that much to gain and better to not push beyond the limits of your stuff.  I do not want to be the reason you have to fix your cylinders... again!  
you can test picking up the half and if close trimming the shake off the two ends of the half, might be enough.

[firefighter ontheside]

Those are good thoughts, Doc.  I also considered splitting whats left in half and then put that on the mill and get some wider flat sawn boards.  I should be able to lift those pieces.

[Southside]

TT and MM that must be the new "Jelly Doughnut" method of quarter sawing or something?  Does it give interesting results?  :D

[Larry]

Hank and I sawed cedar today, but by early afternoon we got frustrated because our pile wasn't growing very fast.  We quit and went hiking.






The daffodil's have been blooming for a couple of weeks now but this is the first crocus we have spotted this year.

The spring peepers are in full chorus and sound was almost deafening. 

Came in from our hike and see the weatherman is forecasting a full blown ice storm for Wednesday! >:( : ??? :-[ :-[ :-[ 

[Walnut Beast]

Just opening things up. Should be some interesting stuff when I get to the knarly stuff 

[Walnut Beast]

Very nice Larry. Same here on Weather. 60 yesterday and 20 now and it's getting colder for several days

[WDH]

Dennis, looks like that one took a walk on you.  

[chet]

Rub it in Larry.    We are still a log ways from dem flowers and peepers. A couple months at da very least.

[Old Greenhorn]

I'm with Chet.

[Walnut Beast]

Sawing nothing but black gold and looking forward to getting into knarly stuff like this. Several other big trees with knarly bulges and branches that grew over like this