Cut some more wood

[Old Blue]

After two years of sitting, we finally had time to cut an english walnut stem and a stump that we had pulled out of someones future horse corral. The wood had more defects and bug damage than I had hoped for. The long hold time before milling didn't do it any good. It looks like there's been a change in the way pics are displayed and I am going to rely on a combination of me getting lucky and them showing up the way they did in my last post. Here goes.

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This is the stem mounted up and ready to cut the knuckle off.

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And with the knuckle cut off for later milling.

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Here's the stump we yanked mounted up and ready to go.

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Stump all done and in 2 3/4 inch slabs

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Here's the boards from the stem. They are all 5/8 except for the center 3 which are 1 inch. They have a lot of defects and periferal bug damage. I'm not going to get as much usabel material out of them as I had hoped for.

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[Old Blue]

Here's the rest

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This is the stack of 5/8 boards that came out of the knuckle that I cut off the main stem.

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Here's a top view of the top board in the knuckle stack. I really like the way this stuff looks. I think it may be a combination of heart and spalting. I can't wait to see some of this stuff with a glossy polyurethane finish on it.

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Here's a shot of two of the slabs from the stump and some of the chunks I cut out of the other stump slabs. Cutting these chunks out of the slabs really tested the limits of my skill saw. I found the best thing to do was cut half to 2/3 of the way through and recut at full depth. Other wise you just wind up burning a lot of wood and beating the bejesus out of your saw! There's really a lot of bug damage and naturally occuring defects from roots and voids etc. I am pretty sure that this material is black walnut or paradox or something like that.

Thanks to all and especially Blue Rider for helping ID the tree we cut down 2 years ago as an English walnut. It tooka while but we finally got it sliced!

Old Blue
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[discounthunter]

love your set-up. one of the best ive seen. as far as your ends stops(visegrips,lol)ever thought of a smaller pieces of tubing inserted then pinned with a piece welded to the end for the stop.(picture a chrome insert for a reciever hitch on a truck.

good amount of wood saved from the pieces

 

[Old Blue]

Thanks Discount,
I know exactly what you mean about the endstops. I'm running a mickey mouse vicegrip workaround to keep the height adjustment from moving during milling also. We just don't get enough time to spend on it and it comes down to milling or fixing the odds and ends, well so far the milling is winning that one.

Old Blue

 

[Dave Boyt]

Great that you could salvage that log. Got any plans for the lumber? If you get the chance again, might try sawing parallel to the crotch to see if you can get some of that fancy grain. Thanks for the photos.