Whatcha Sawin' ???

[Magicman]

Guilty until proven innocent!   ;D

[Deese]

I had just enough daylight remaining to saw some 2x10's yesterday after work. An 'ole knotty pine log that had some nice color in it. The knots contrast nicely with the dark stained sapwood. Perfect way to end a Wednesday.


  

  

 

[Delawhere Jack]

More stinkin' walnut. 29" not counting the vines, 10' long....  Don't know why you guys get so excited over it. Frankly, I'm getting a little bored with it...... NOT!!  :D



  

 

[bags]

Good look'in color in that timber Deese--- folks around here cant get enough of the blue stain boards.

[Darrel]

I didn't get much sawn today, just a couple more pieces of black oak for the small farm table because I didn't cut quite enough the other day.

More importantly, I did get a chance to lay on my back in the grass and look up through the branches.


I had to go up to our property to get the black oak and still too much mud and snow there to even think about laying down on the ground and I sure don't want to take my mill there yet. It would turn into a mudmizer.  :D

[longtime lurker]

With apologies to Dr Seuss:

One pack two pack, red pack other red pack.

Yesterday's ARC log turned into something special, and one packs as good as another... it's all that good, and a lot of it's better. The wooly look is compression grain - it'll be heavily fiddlebacked where she's hairy. By next week it'll be deep mahogany in colour with gold flashing.



 


Now the real question is why can't I buy logs that cut like that? I'll get the colour, I get the grain but never both at one time.

[fishfighter]

Now that is sweet looking. ;D

Spring has show up again here. We are set to have upper 70's to lower 80's for the next week. After that, I'm sure summer will show up. :D

Oh, I had ran across a ad for cypress logs. The fellow wants .85 a BF. I have no idea what a fair market value is. Anybody have an idea what cypress logs go for? I would have to go pick them up too! I'm only looking for a few logs, so keep that in mine.

[WDH]

Longtime,

Now, that is fine. 

[Magicman]

Oh, I had ran across a ad for cypress logs. The fellow wants .85 a BF. I have no idea what a fair market value is. Anybody have an idea what cypress logs go for?

I have no idea.  The closest that I have ever come to buying logs was when a guy had too many Cypress logs for his need, and I wanted some Cypress lumber.  I sawed them on halves.

[btulloh]

Sawed out a mantle for a friend the other day from a white oak blowdown.  He wanted something pretty massive.  This is 5 1/2 x 9 x 7ft.  He wants to keep the bark on.  Good luck with that.



We had a little freezing rain and a lot of wind a couple days and I lost some trees and big limbs.  If I can finish cleaning up the yard I plan to buck this 18" WP.  The only use I've found for the WP that grows here is paneling. 

[Magicman]

It looks good, but he will need some support to hold that mantel up.   

[btulloh]

You are correct, sir.  He has a good grasp on that, as far as I can tell.

I also explained about the drying process.  I hope he got that message.  I'm afraid he'll go ahead and put it up green.  It would be hard to find a worse place for a green hunk o' wood.  We'll just have to see if he waits the required quarter century.  You can lead a horse to water . . .

[Magicman]

I would put it up green hoping for the best but with the realization that it may have to come down for resurfacing.   ;D

[btulloh]

Well, he wants it rustic. 

[Magicman]

Who knows, that bark might hold and it will be worth the try.

[btulloh]

I expect we'll find out.  He has a reasonable degree of latitude in his expectations, so whatever happens will be acceptable.  Cambium edge looks good too.

[paul case]

I sawed a mantle piece about like that one for a customer once. I told him it would probably split being that it had the heart in it. He hollowed out the inside of it from the back with a chainsaw leaving a 1.5'' on the top and bottom . It dried fine and didnt split. Bark hanging on is sort of a shot in the dark.

PC

[drobertson]

The thought occurred to me in regards to slipping bark,  now I'm not sure bout the WO bark holding its integrity once  it slips,  but I have some hickory that slipped, I use it for smoking, but a few weeks back I slipped it back on, just curious I guess, but thought  would it be possible to glue it back on once things have normalized? Just a thought,

[Fil-Dill]

Any truth to the old tale that a live tree cut in the dead of winter will hold its bark? Haven't been around long enough to test this.

[drobertson]

From what I've noticed, timing is critical, but it seems like timber that has died standing will hold bark better than fresh fell live timber, regardless of the time of year, just no proof, it is very interesting,

[fishfighter]

Got a live oak slab that was cut from a branch that is 22" wide x 4" thick. Sawed that about two years ago and it still holding on to the bark. Got it sitting on some cinder blocks as a bench on my patio. Everybody that comes wants to take it home. Told them if they can lift it by their self, it's theirs. DanG thing has got to weigh in over 200lbs easy. :D No takes yet.

:D

 

The slab is under those boards.


 

[longtime lurker]

We had a regular customer for a while ( since deceased) who used to do a lot of " bark on" live edge tabletops, mantelpieces etc.

What he actually did was carve and paint " bark" onto the live edge. Looked really cool, I wish we had of bought some of his work. He had a whole range of ways to get different bark effects ranging from beating it with chain to gouging with an angle grinder or detail work with a Dremel.

[longtime lurker]

Last shot of the ARC before it left today. The slab got some afternoon sun when I was called away from the mill Friday so you can kinda see where this stuff will go for colour.

Don't mean to bore y'all with this, but you guys get it: really great boards don't just come along every day.
I expect the customer will be pleased, I know I'm going to be a little bit sad it's gone.



 

[Kbeitz]

That's gotta be one of the neatest boards ever posted on this forum.

[SlowJoeCrow]

That wood is fantastic...as well as that green grass!!