Help drying spalted wood

[Brmorgan]

That's some amazing wood there. Pecan seems to be pretty popular when I see stuff made out of spalted wood, so it must be a bit more prone to spalting than a lot of other species. Birch and Maple can be good too, but Birch especially starts rotting so fast that it's a fine line between no character and no fiber integrity.

I've never thought of stacking lumber vertically like that before. Sounds like a good idea, but my only concern is that you can't use gravity and extra weight to hold the pieces straight as they dry. To those who have done this, how was it for warping?

 

[ROOTSXROCKS]

Across the street in an empty lot next to my neighbor, there is an laurel Oak that was hit by lightning last spring its about 20 inch caliper nice straight main bole about 24 foot.
It died but didn't split or burst, so I notice the city has flagged it for removal, and since Im planning a visit to the saww mill with csome cherry I have, Ihad a look at it to see if it would be worth milling.
well in looking at how I could drop it in the right spot today, I look and see it has significant outward signs of fungus and spaulting. Still very strong, in fact its still holding its leaves from spring when it died.

but the borrers have jumped on it I see sawdust all arround the base.

it should be some really pretty wood, Im guessing it was cooked allowing the cell walls to release there moisture and sugars to pathogens, Ill post pics when I cut it open.

 

[Brmorgan]

Looking forward to that. One thing that's nice about spalted wood is that grub and pinworm holes don't look as out of place as they do on a nice clear piece. I wouldn't worry too much about it.

 

[Dai Sensei]

All I can say is that the spalting is amazing :jawdrop:

Not sure what you have planned for them, but they would make fantastic wood turning blanks and many would pay a pretty penny

 

[sachsmo]

What is "spalting"?

I gather it is the start of decoposition.


I noodled some long dead standing Sycamore rounds, the grain and colors were amazing.

Wish I had not bucked that trunk up last Winter, could have been my first milling project.

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Nothing like that Pecan, but pretty enough to tell me I need an Alaskan to open up some other stuff laying around.

For my whole life I despised crotched and gnarly stuff.

Who knew the beauty beneath the surface.

I think this milling bug just bit me (hard).

Merry Christmas! Mo