Beach Beech

[Daninvan]

First milling of the season, a piece of beech. Unfortunately when it was cut down most of the trunk was discarded, the piece I wound up with had less than three feet of clear trunk.

Older beech trees around here get pretty huge in girth, probably the biggest trees in the city. This one was not especially big, but I got several nice pieces and my buddy took home the same amount. Some interesting spalting going on as well.

I was not happy with the cutting action of my saw, it was a struggle. The beech is a pretty hard wood for me, it really exposed my poor raker work! Plus several of my saws gave me starting grief. Not a very auspicious start to the fall cutting season!

 

[mtngun]

Nice looking wood.

When you are milling on a beach like that, do you ever have problems with sand dulling the chain ?

 

[Daninvan]

Almost always!

Normally I take the time to peel all the bark off with an axe before I mill it. In this case, there were only a couple of sandy spots I had to do that.

I'm not really sure why that was, probably to do with the way the wood was stored, length of time at the beach, and possibly the fact that beech has quite smooth bark.

Dan

 

[jimdad07]

Very nice looking wood.

 

[BobL]

RE:Beach Beech

Very nice looking wood.

Shore is !

Do I win the most pathetic reply of the year

 

[Timberframed]

You're making waves with those watered down puns BobL!

 

[jimdad07]

RE:Beach Beech



Shore is !

Do I win the most pathetic reply of the year

It's not too bad, I think mine was worse in the thread I started earlier, don't know what either one of us was thinking with those horrible puns.

 

[Nikko]

nice looking stuff, and yeah - it's tough!

I (along with some others) milled a large beech in W. Van a few years ago - ended up with qty 22, 30" wide slabs each 3" thick and 8.5' long. Each cut took about 20 minutes and took an entire tank of fuel (with the husky 2100). A chain (sharpening) was good for about 2.5 cuts, but we pushed it to get three out of it. Each slab was about 300 lbs...ughh!

Lottsa work, but nice wood!