couple of hours in the woods today
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jatoxico
Minister of Fire
Nice Steeltown! I need a few clean rounds like that to split.
Looks like there's wood all over the place in those pic's!
Looks like there's wood all over the place in those pic's!
Gasifier
Minister of Fire
That looks like a nice place to be Steeltown. Have you had many fires yet this year? Or have you not needed them?
thewoodlands
Minister of Fire
steeltowninwv, nice looking rounds, It looks like your setup for more work from what I see in the background.
Nice work.
zap
Nice work.
zap
tfdchief
Minister of Fire
bogydave
Minister of Fire
Nice looking wood & woods.
When I see that walnut, I think how nice it would be to turn on a lathe for black pieces of a chess set.
It's all BTUs
When I see that walnut, I think how nice it would be to turn on a lathe for black pieces of a chess set.
It's all BTUs
tfdchief
Minister of Fire
Gasifier I've had several fires..got one going as we speak...Dave friend of mine has a lathe that's gonna be his walnut..he cuts with me all the time...he raided my woodpile today..lots of wormy buckeye he took
xman23
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Thistle
Minister of Fire
That Walnut has some of the nicest color I've seen in 30+ yrs of cabinetmaking & turning.Great looking White Oak too,loads of heat in those rounds.Love finding snags & deadfall where the wood can be burned or worked immediately.
Thistle
Minister of Fire
xman23 said:
When they're small,dead,mis shapen and/or just one tree or a couple,they're not worth much,just to the user.Not a commercial buyer or sawmill.
tfdchief
Minister of Fire
Thistle, I thought the same thing. Some really rich color there. I would have a hard time burning that. I would though ;-PThistle said:
thistle..im by no means even par on tree identification...but i thought it was red oak..is it white oak?
smokinj
Minister of Fire
smokinj
Minister of Fire
how can u tell about my rakers?..i cut a dead standing walnut there the other day with no sapwood at all...it was all dark..no white at all..jay does the oak look like red oak to u?...thistle thinks its white..i vote red..
smokinj
Minister of Fire
steeltowninwv said:
On your pic's there is a drag line or straight line that is not really uniform but shows in the pic(raker drag) . I cut alot of chains and I look for this in my milling as-well.
Constrictor
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ive never seen walnut with that small of a sap ring around it. normally the young trees have very little dark wood in them. that one actually looks like it could have made some lumber.
I think after it dies, the sapwood on walnut oxidizes and turns darker. That's also why it looks brown and not green like a fresh cut live walnut.
The oak looks like white oak to me.
The oak looks like white oak to me.
Backwoods Savage
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