Goodwill Roadtrip/Sawing - Success

[dablack]

I hate the trees and how when you cut them down the roots don't rot.....they just grow another tree.  Anyway, if I had more easy to get to Oak, I wouldn't mess with it but I don't so......we will give it a shot.  I will document how I stack and sticker it.  We will all see what happens.  I've seen it turned into floor so it can't all be bad (famous last words)

Austin

[WDH]

It does not like to be glued up in wide panels unless it is quartersawn.  Quartersawn is not as delinquent. 

[Shotgun]

It does not like to be glued up in wide panels unless it is quartersawn.  Quartersawn is not as delinquent.

Now there's a new thought.  Delinquent wood.        :D

Norm

[WDH]

Remember, we are dealing with sweetgum  ;D.

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

It does not like to be glued up in wide panels unless it is quartersawn.  Quartersawn is not as delinquent.

Now there's a new thought.  Delinquent wood.        :D

Norm

Old Saying.  ;D

[Ga Mtn Man]

Old guy saying it.  ;D

[grweldon]

I don't consider David to be old!  I certainly don't consider you, Paul, to be old, especially since I'm the same age as you!  Now Magicman, he's OLD! a stately "older" gentleman!  I just pray I can move around like he does when I'm "older"!

I suppose I'll be stubborn too and attempt quartersawing my OLD sweetgum!

[dablack]

Found a good thread on sweetgum.

https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php/topic,10095.0.html

Might turn out ok if I weigh it down.

[Magicman]

Ole man here.  ;)  I have sawed much Sweetgum for customers.  The intended use was for wall paneling and outside board and batten siding.  Problem is that I have never seen the finished product, but I have heard many times that it is a poor man's siding.  It will hold up very well as long as there is no spatter from rain runoff.  It's gotta be able to dry.  The wood colors are very nice.

My "Hates" for Sweetgum is as Austin described above.  It sprouts like the worst invasive species.  It and Pecan and Black Locust.   :-\

[mesquite buckeye]

The Black Locust Everywhere Defense Fund objects to your defamation of their favorite species. Black locust is purty and don't rot. ;D

[Ga Mtn Man]

I don't consider David to be old!  I certainly don't consider you, Paul, to be old, especially since I'm the same age as you!  Now Magicman, he's OLD! a stately "older" gentleman!  I just pray I can move around like he does when I'm "older"!

I suppose I'll be stubborn too and attempt quartersawing my OLD sweetgum!

I was actually referring to WDH.
But now that you mention it, David is looking rather "geezery" lately.smiley_old_guy

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

But now that you mention it, David is looking rather "geezery" lately.smiley_old_guy

I am very hard on my body. I stay up late, get up early, sniff saw dust, I'm a Sundropahaulic, and eat way to much red meat. I run my sawmill with all the safety panels off , stick my arm in the sawdust chute while the blade is sawing through a log and don't were ear plus or gloves.
Went for my check-up last week.....the Doc gave me 2 more weeks.  :D

[Ga Mtn Man]

 :D :D :D :D

Well, at least they'll be two REALLY GOOD weeks. :D  (Stay thirsty my friend)

[Magicman]

Black locust is purty and don't rot. ;D 

You are very correct and I agree, but apparently you have never seen how they can completely take over open land that has good top soil.  Oops, I forgot to add Persimmon in the Hates group.  Same reason.   :-\

[Kingcha]

Don't get me going on Black locust.   What a pain to get ride of.   

Matt

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

I'd love to have some for split fencing.

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

Black locust is purty and don't rot. ;D 

You are very correct and I agree, but apparently you have never seen how they can completely take over open land that has good top soil.  Oops, I forgot to add Persimmon in the Hates group.  Same reason.   :-\

Elm is bad to take over also.

[WDH]

I was actually referring to WDH.

I knew that  .

[mesquite buckeye]

Black locust is purty and don't rot. ;D 

You are very correct and I agree, but apparently you have never seen how they can completely take over open land that has good top soil.  Oops, I forgot to add Persimmon in the Hates group.  Same reason.   :-\

I've got about 5 acres of a run of black locust, which expands every year into the aforestation area. I am ok with that. With a little thinning, they make nice trees, and cherry trees pop up in the light shade beneath them. They also don't kill the cedars and walnuts will also grow with them. Black locust wood is better than teak for outdoor furniture or ship decking. I believe this tree has a future as a premium American wood. I still remember when mesquite was also hated junk. I don't buy the idea of junk trees. I think we just need to be more creative in what we use. But I like persimmons too, so go figure. America's ebony. And then there is clear cedar. And so it goes. ;D

[mesquite buckeye]

I'd love to have some for split fencing.

Too bad you are not closer. I have a lot of them that could use thinning. ;D

[WDH]

Black locust is a nitrogen fixer, too. 

[mesquite buckeye]

"Elm is bad to take over also."

Only for a while, then it dies.

[grweldon]

I've seen what sweetgum can do.  I have a patch, probably a 1/2 acre or so of nothing but sweetgum saplings, about an inch in diameter that is so thick you can't get into it.  It will have to be cut, then treated to prevent resprouting!  In that respect, I "hates" sweetgum also!

[WDH]

It is one of the worst to sucker from the roots if you fell the parent tree.  If you get to them quick enough, Garlon 4 in a 3% solution with water will nuke them. 

[Leigh Family Farm]

Just wanted to point out that the conversation went from sweet gum to old people back to sweet gum, then to black locusts and other invasive trees, and then back to sweet gum. I thought this thread was about helping Dablack build a house?  ;) :D :D :D