Getting ready....stack grows

[SDB777]

The pile has grown, and will continue to grow some more today....

Still in the Sweetgum stems. Tackled two more yesterday, the I know the photo only shows one , but there were two trees in the photo...one laying on top of the other. Not what I like when cutting, but sometimes thing just happen that way.


Here's what it looked like when I arrived after the turners meeting in Little Rock(I had already taken the stem on the far right off last week. Think it was somewhere around 2:45pm-ish?

And at around 6:15pm-ish I decided to call it a day. Also cleaned up the farmer guy's Loblolly Pine(Pinus taeda), branches hanging everywhere on that thing.

And finally the 'stack'! It is growing....and I'll get most of it moved today to a much better location.....my yard(that's where my bandsaw mill is located). I still have a few limbs, and some more stuff 'hidden' under the grass that I'll be dragging out this morning. And then I'll be moving over to the Cherry stems!!

BTW, Swettgum...it smells pretty bad. Think the biggest butt end is somewhere close to 26", and most logs are cut to 8'7" or so to get me a pretty good 8' board when cut(hope it won't crack any deeper then that..... Small logs, I'm not so concerned with as they will become 'blanks', but still hoping for minimal cracking.




Wife wanted me to mention.....the log puller there is for sale. 1995 Jeep YJ Wrangler, wearing 36" rubber and too many other things under the body to mention here! She thinks I need to stop taking here truck back-n-forth to work.....go figure?



Scott (I'm moving slower today then yesterday) B

 

[SDB777]

BTW, this is what the stuff looks like after a few passes with the Woodmizer LT-10

Going to make some awesome rocker/gliders with this wood!







Scott (thanks for looking) B

 

[qbilder]

How hard is that sweet gum? Attractive looking wood.

 

[SDB777]

How hard is that sweet gum? Attractive looking wood.

I wish I knew the answer to that question....the three Sweetgum trees that were in this pasture were part of a cleanup I am doing. The bonus wood is in the back pasture(four 16" Cherry trees and enough Oak to build the framing of my stucture over the mill). As far as while it is green the Woodmizer standard blade just slices through it like butter, but after it dries......you got me?

And I didn't need to sharpen any chainsaw chains during any of the bucking of logs, and knocking the limbs down to size to drag to the pile.




Amazingly enough the flitches have a lot of character to them, including three or four color tones, some curl, and staining/spalting....I am quite pleased with the two short pieces I threw on the mill(sort of a is this firewood or what experiment).... Now to grow a set and roll those 20-inchers on there and really get to cutting! Of course, more photo's to follow as I find time to cut!

Scott B

 

[qbilder]

Guessing from the coloration, they probably smelled like cow doo-doo when milling :cool2: Worth it, though. Beautiful stuff.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

How hard is that sweet gum? Attractive looking wood.

All of the sweetgum i've ever worked with, was fairly soft, but it sure is pretty!

Rob

 

[TraditionalTool]

All of the sweetgum i've ever worked with, was fairly soft, but it sure is pretty!

Rob

You must have different than we do out west, most of our sweetgum is Tasmanian Blue, and it's hard, hard, hard...like 2200 on the Janka scale.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

I have no idea where it was from? All that i ever used in my shop, long ago, came from a supplier (who said it came from the south) and it was fairly soft.

Maybe the supplier didn't have it named right? It looked like the boards in the above pictures, but that don't really mean it was the same specie, so??

Rob

 

[TraditionalTool]

I have no idea where it was from? All that i ever used in my shop, long ago, came from a supplier (who said it came from the south) and it was fairly soft.

Maybe the supplier didn't have it named right? It looked like the boards in the above pictures, but that don't really mean it was the same specie, so??

Rob

There are different species of sweetgum, but even the stuff down under and in NZ is pretty hard, AFAIK.

The Tasmanian Blue is Eucalyptus. BobL mills some other type of sweetgum that is a dark/rich red color, but it seems that stuff is pretty hard also.

There could be some softer sweetgum, as there are so many species of it.

 

[SDB777]

Spoke with a 'local' yesterday....

His comment was, "After it's dry, it's like working with white oak."



Not sure what species this Sweetgum tree is, but I'd have to go with the most common in Arkansas. "Liquidambar styraciflua" >LINK HERE<



TraditionalTool,
You wouldn't happen to have a photo of the blue hue would ya? I'd be interested in seeing that!!




Scott (yup, just like pooh) B

 

[TraditionalTool]

TraditionalTool,
You wouldn't happen to have a photo of the blue hue would ya? I'd be interested in seeing that!!

The wood is not blue itself, I think they call it Tasmanian Blue because of the blue color to the leaves. The leaves is what they get Eucalyptus oil from.

Here's a couple pics of flooring I just got through google.

 

[SDB777]

Nice flooring.

The stack has started getting thicker...only at four layers. I'll add to that tomrrow! Got to make some room for the 30 8' cherry logs I scored today!

Even the 'scrap pile' is worth saving for blanks for the wood turning guys. Wife said one looks like a frog(she says there is an eyeball there).





Scott (purty stuff) B

 

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SDB777

Even the 'scrap pile' is worth saving for blanks for the wood turning guys. Wife said one looks like a frog(she says there is an eyeball there

Sure does look like a frog. Nice photos.

jerry-