Logs to drool over!

[Magicman]

Here is a Sinker Cypress that I sawed.  The vertical lines are the LubeMizer pulsing.  The log was gritty and I was doing everything that might help the blade.


 
And here is what was inside.


  

[Bigredfaller]

Got into a nice patch of Cedar today... here's one for ya.




 




 

[paul case]

NICE indeed! 
PC

[Sprucegum]

Big red thats a neat little jack you got there, do you use it very often?

[Bogue Chitto]

Sinker cypress.

  

 

[Magicman]

BC, that is some strange looking Cypress.   ???

[Bogue Chitto]

I thought that also MM. Got it from the swamp behind the house. 

[Bigredfaller]

Its a Silvey timber jack, use it in big wood, you can do a lot more with it than you can with wedges!

[dboyt]

Walnut with pre-designed metal inlay (fence wire).  Some thoughtful person applied this wire inlay 40 years ago, and nobody wanted it but me.  Go figure.  Love bi-metal blades!


 


 

[mesquite buckeye]

Super nice.

How many blades did it eat ??? ???

[Magicman]

dboyt, you're gonna hafta teach your helper to sniff that wire out.   

[WDH]

I pity your planer.

[mesquite buckeye]

Could grind them down first, or pull them out.

[Magicman]

Black Willow.


 
It will become wall paneling.


  

[pasbuild]

Is that another sinker log?

[Jemclimber]

Hey Magic,  Does that willow get milled or put up rough? Very pretty. Most think willow is a junk tree, but I think it's beautiful and perfect for ceiling and paneling. Beautiful and light. Do you have any pictures of the finished product or is this for one of your customers that you didn't get to see the end of the project. Thanks for the nice pictures everyone.

[slider]

For me it"s these 100 + year old pine .This one turned out some really nice wide boards.

  

 

[Magicman]

Is that another sinker log?

Not a sinker, but a floater.  When the Mississippi River is flooded, the customer will retrieve floating logs and corral them at a location by roping them to trees. 


 
I am sure that the lumber will be planed & T&G, etc. before being used in the customer's home.


 
This Black Willow was fresh felled and not floaters.

[mesquite buckeye]

You guys are making me want to fire up the saw..... ;D

[rooster 58]

     Slider, that's an awesome log ;D  I might have access to about 30 white pine trees like that. Lookin' forward to skidding them out with the jd and sawing them up 8)

[T Welsh]

A local walnut for a friend!

  It had good figure though out the whole log,my friend was thrilled. Tim

[mesquite buckeye]

Wow. Was it streaky all the way through, or just the outside part? 8) 8) 8)

[T Welsh]

mesquite buckeye,Yup,He asked me for a special walnut log and I dug it out of my stash pile that I keep on hand for just this reason.I have not gone through my Walnut pile yet,but I just went through my Cherry piles and trimmed the ends and put them into one pile to keep track of them.

  They sometimes get thrown onto the firewood processor and get cut up for firewood. (I hate when that happens :D) Here is a picture of some Walnut piles

   With some other cherry logs in there too! I need to organize a little better ;D. Tim

[mesquite buckeye]

Heading to the farm in May. Hope to get some milling done...

I hate to leave logs sitting. They can go funky before I can get them done. :(

[Okrafarmer]

Heading to the farm in May. Hope to get some milling done...

I hate to leave logs sitting. They can go funky before I can get them done. :(

Some people dig funk these days. . . .
8) 8) 8)
Even in lumber and furniture!  ;D