Logs to drool over!

[WDH]

Peter,

There are six logs in all, and I have opened up two and they were both beautifully spalted.  The plan is to cut 4" thick blocks and to sell them to the bowl turners.

[cutterboy]

OMG, WDH, free logs that are nicely spalted. Now that is something to drool over. Is it just the sap wood that spalts or is the heart wood spalted as well?
Now you got me thinking. I left a couple of red maple logs out in the woods a couple of years ago. Maybe I'll try to find them.

[WDH]

There is much more spalting in the sapwood than in the heartwood.  As you get more to the center of the log, the spalting disappears. 

[Peter Drouin]

I have some hard maple that's been down in a pile for a year and a falf,
With the Spalted thing the timing is everything. :D :D
WDH will you use hot wax to seal them?

[WDH]

Anchorseal.  It has worked well for me in the past.  Just need several coats.

[fishpimp]

My junk doesn't compare to y'all but Ill show them

Picked up this ugly piece with a load of walnut.
Studied it for a while how I wanted to mill it.


 
Idk what it is? Burl ? Was a growth of a branch of a butt log.
I think it turned out a nice unique piece!


  

 

[WDH]

That would make an awesome coffee table  8).

[dboyt]

Fishpimp, that's about the most unusual piece I've ever seen.  A wood carver would have a great time with a piece like that.

Has anyone milled roots?  Lots of embedded rocks, but some pretty wood inside.


  

  

 

[Nomad]

     I milled a big SYP tap root a few months ago.  Nothing but solid fat lighter.  Talk about gumming up a band!  I don't believe I'll do that again. :

[longtime lurker]

I envy you guys being able to sell spalted timber. Here I regard it as a curse... doesn't matter how pretty it looks with a coat of varnish on it, it's hard to sell unfinished.

Some nice stuff there gentlemen.

[Migal]

I envy you guys being able to sell spalted timber. Here I regard it as a curse... doesn't matter how pretty it looks with a coat of varnish on it, it's hard to sell unfinished.

Some nice stuff there gentlemen.

It's like the Pretty Ladies in the ads "It's all in the presentation"  8)

[customsawyer]

I think they call that marketing. ;D

[longtime lurker]

I think they call that marketing. ;D

Wait till the aussie dollar drops a bit more and I'll send you a container load?
They call that wholesaling. :D :D :D

[5quarter]

Lurker...I'll be waiting at the dock.  ;)

[cbecker]

Here are some of the bigger logs we sawed and what came out of them!


Dawn Redwood











This is a Copper Beech.



15 'Long  We cut it in half to put it on the mill!





Turns out it was spalted!

[customsawyer]

I like the cabinets.

[Migal]

I like the cabinets.

Me too! Also would like to try some of the HiJinx Look's like it come's in a keep sake box  8)

[Dave Shepard]

These are from 2011. I didn't drool on them, but I was close.  :D



 

[Peter Drouin]

These are from 2011. I didn't drool on them, but I was close.  :D



 

That is some nice pine

[longtime lurker]

My wife's in the States so... working weekends too.
I kinda like weekends, it's when I get time to cut at my own pace and do the stuff that probably isn't commercial, either logs I'm expecting trouble with or jobs for mates.

Like this one... Fruitwood as it's called, which I guess sounds far more marketable then mango tree.

Woulda been nice except for that horrible value reducing staining... ummm spalting :D



 




 

[Martha White Nelson]

Some beautiful milling here!!

[acrosteve]

What is the name of that type of hook?

[mesquite buckeye]

How about a giant fishhook on a chain, or half a grapple hook? ;D

[Migal]

 :D I Don't believe that's was the answer MagicMan was looking for  8)

[beenthere]

I believe MM said he salvaged that single hook from either a cant hook or half a logging tong. Might just call it a single hook, as they have been used for many years in logging to handle logs by 'end' dogging them. Member Loggah might know an 'official' name.