Is this monster oak?
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I am with fossil on this one. Got a few that size on the place here. It damn sure ain't red or white oak.
With the 3123 it will cut like butter, split like crap soaking up your maul and burn hot and clean with no coals but a lot of fluffy ashes. In fact it will split like crap soaking up your maul and burn hot and clean with no coals but a lot of fluffy ashes even without the 3123.
Had to clean that up before fossil caught me on the sentence structure. :lol:
With the 3123 it will cut like butter, split like crap soaking up your maul and burn hot and clean with no coals but a lot of fluffy ashes. In fact it will split like crap soaking up your maul and burn hot and clean with no coals but a lot of fluffy ashes even without the 3123.
Had to clean that up before fossil caught me on the sentence structure. :lol:
raybonz
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Gark
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Doesn't the distance between annular rings (seen on the big cross-section) generally tell how fast-growing a tree it was? Can't really see the rings with the pic being fuzzy, but the top and middle pics seem to show wide 1 inch rings which wouldn't be oak. All oak we did had well-defined closely spaced (1/4 inch) rings. Also, the thumbnail test -- did your thumbnail sink into the end-grain (soft, fluffy wood:: not oak) or not (hard dense wood:: maybe oak)..... ?? Oak generally grows slowly.
I was thinking some kind of Maple too. Probably very hard to split. If it were one of the Oaks, I'd jump on it, Maple or something else, not so much. 4' rounds of red or White Oak don't scare me, but 4' rounds of Maple would not be fun.
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smokinj
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DanCorcoran
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Well, using the technique of expert concensus, we've so far eliminated bamboo and feline willow.
Thistle
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The 3123 wont work because there is no such thing. Husqvarna makes a 3120 though.
I'd take it.Anything that isnt Ailanthus/Tree Of Hell is OK with me.Cottonwood,various Pines or Cedar/Juniper,I'll cut & bring it all home if I can squeeze it in the backyard.
I'd take it.Anything that isnt Ailanthus/Tree Of Hell is OK with me.Cottonwood,various Pines or Cedar/Juniper,I'll cut & bring it all home if I can squeeze it in the backyard.
This is it in its former glory. Th e tree in the center of the image. The one right above the white car.
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Thistle said:
Whatever. It is a BMF saw! I don't remember the Husqvarna numbers. Thanks for the correction.
Here's the 3120 in some White Oak. The bark doesn't look anything like the monster above.
smokinj
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Flatbedford said:Thistle said:
Whatever. It is a BMF saw! I don't remember the Husqvarna numbers. Thanks for the correction.
Here's the 3120 in some White Oak. The bark doesn't look anything like the monster above.
Hes bleeding from both hands! :bug:
smokinj
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Flatbedford said:
Yea there nothing easy about milling, right down to cleaning the saw afterwards. The slabs sure come in handy a year or two latter though. Working on a table now for x-mass you just dont get presents like that anymore!
Thistle
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smokinjay said:Flatbedford said:Thistle said:
Whatever. It is a BMF saw! I don't remember the Husqvarna numbers. Thanks for the correction.
Here's the 3120 in some White Oak. The bark doesn't look anything like the monster above.
Hes bleeding from both hands! :bug:
I didnt realize White Oak bark was so tough.Its usually pretty soft. ;-)
I think is is Sugar Maple. Am I correct that it will not HAND split as easily as Red or White Oak?
I like em that size. That is my specialty but I have a way to put them up and take them home in one piece.
3123 through me off for a moment too.
3123 through me off for a moment too.
fireview2788
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