Sawing Pine this morning.....What's this?

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

I have some Pine logs that are a year old on the ground. The bark is just now starting to release.

As I was moving this log to the mill, I stopped to strip off some of the bark I saw these little circles all over the log. Almost looks like dimples on a golf ball. 

I have no idea what caused this. Have not seen it on any other logs.





  

  

 

[Hilltop366]

Give it a toss and see if it will go farther than a regular log!

Ok really I don't know what the are but it looks like a worm or insect made them.

[isawlogs]

I would venture out here and saye it is pine beetle that has gotten into your logs, if there  still in there you will hear them chewing. 

[Bogue Chitto]

Round worms.  :D

[Magicman]

Here is a LINK to a discussion about stuff in logs.

[Chuck White]

I'm thinking that if you were to scrape around in those holes that you would probably find a small hole going inward!

Pine beetles!

[boatman]

Sawyer Beetles, two year life cycle.  Under the bark at first then they dive in and run the length. 

[Woodsrover]

Swiss Pine.  Not quite ripe.

[bugdust]

Dave,
I had the same signs in white pine and found big ole' white grubs balled up between the bark. They were huge and would be a large meal for a "grub eater." 

[WDH]

This is an easy one.  Those are the tracks of the dreaded Wood Octopus. 

[Bogue Chitto]

Dave,
I had the same signs in white pine and found big ole' white grubs balled up between the bark. They were huge and would be a large meal for a "grub eater." 

Good fishing bate. ;D

[tcsmpsi]

This is an easy one.  Those are the tracks of the dreaded Wood Octopus.

When those beetles unfurl those curled up antennae, they are somewhat reminiscent of octopi.   :D

[Amelia Farms]

I sawed a bunch of pine last winter that had been on the ground for about a year and a half. Most all of them had that and it was indeed some kind of beetle. My chickens came runnin everytime they heard me crank up the mill.

[customsawyer]

David I think you might be slipping a little. There was room for lots of wise cracks and you said nothing. ;D ;D

[Chuck White]

I sawed a log for one of my brothers 2 years ago that had been on the ground about 2 years and it had so many beetles in it, that I didn't have to run the water/soap lube. 

The boards from that log looked like swiss cheese. ;D

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

David I think you might be slipping a little. There was room for lots of wise cracks and you said nothing. ;D ;D

Oh....I saw an "open mic night" on this thread. I just couldn't bring myself to start commenting on Danny's Octopuss.  :D

[clww]

Definitely ring worms.