The sooner the better on the ground freezing. I have Ash logs ready to haul out and make into floor joists for the old shed I'm rebuilding.
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No bears and chaps with *****?The promise land dose exist!
I’m cleaning my workshop tonight. The floor hasn’t seen the light of day since some time before I was divorced. Unearthed a few old friends along the way. Cut a lot of wood with these guys and they cut a lot of wood in the hands of my friends as well. Right now only the 65 runs does the others all need some minor repairs.
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“Old saws create strong men, strong men create good times.”
Love is blind sometimes.
Any other aspects of female "logic" you can explain?
You can't live with them and you can't live without them. LOL
MechanicMatt
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MechanicMatt
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Lake Katrine is pretty close to both me and 396, relatively speakingI'd heard about the bats 40+ years ago when I spent a lot of time in the western Catskills... Then and now I haven't figured out the geographic naming thing! Cool that you may have a forest connection to them! There was a bat factory in Lake Katrine, NY in the past. It was right next to Route 209 and had a big cyclone dust collector outside. I Googled baseball bats and by coincidence a 2011 Wall St Journal article popped up from Lake Katrine. The article was about a scientist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture who was going to save the baseball bat industry from the EAB... History has proven that to be wishful thinking. https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424053111903461304576524772960045158
I know some guns were stocked in ash and cherry but I don't think they are particularly popular or make good stock wood. The ash splits too easily and the cherry is generally too brittle for stock work (hard and it chips easily). Some of the contemporary black powder custom gun makers use those woods and there are sample originals around. They get away with the ash because it mostly serves as something to which to secure other parts. The barrel holds the forearm together, the long trigger guards, heavy butt plates and toe plates protect the butt and wrist areas pretty well. Maple (hard and soft) were common and I occasionally see contemporary guns with such stocks. As I recall Ruger had curly maple stocks available on various of their guns--might have been a distributer special order?? I've got a soft curly maple long rifle blank that I got from the storage attic for the gunsmith shop at Colonial Williamsburg in '87 that I still haven't used. It cost me the princely sum of $25... employees were allowed to purchase materials for their cost. That stock was in inventory for a long time (along with others) before I got it... It's likely 50+ years old now as I understand it was purchased by CW in the early 70s. I need a squirrel rifle... my .54 flintlock would be excessive for such use.
RE wood... If I need anything it would be poplar boards for my home renovation project. I've got the tooling to turn them into casing, base, crown, cabinets, etc. A tree service guy had a pile of poplar logs for me but he left them in a place where they were inaccessible for a long time. When he finally moved them with an excavator he left them in a pile elsewhere on the property instead of trucking them to the log yard as he kept promising he would. Eventually the insects ruined the logs and they all got run through a big chipper to get rid of them. A terrible waste of good logs. I haven't found any "hazard tree" poplar on the rail trails or land trust properties yet.I'll be able to find enough oak for the floors as they keep falling down... a combination of loosing protection from the ash and hemlock along with saturated soil and wind. I gave up on accumulating ash for the floors as I found it was consistently too far gone for boards. Still good for burning though.
It's sad to think about how common white pine, hemlock, eastern red cedar and ash were in the woods I've frequented for many decades... now they are almost all gone due to insects, disease or being shaded out. I noticed the maple are having trouble in the woods near my parents' home due to wet feet. The "woods" are starting to look like the old farm lands of my youth. Lots of grasses and high stem count brush as the trees are disappearing... I've had to remove about 60 trees from my parents' property already and I recently discovered another white pine has died. The upside of the grasses and high stem count brush is my short range deer rifles will be used again... they had a good rest when the woods matured and longer shots presented themselves.
Yeah…blind, deaf, dumb and stupid lol
“Cleaning this gun” playing in the background lol
KK, I know you know what you are doing, but be careful with that one, that is some dangerous stuff!
I had a real bad one not too far from my cabin down a steep hill. Kept pondering how I was going to deal with it several times I was up there. Then, thankfully, the wind took care of it for me! I was not looking forward to messing with it!
I had a real bad one not too far from my cabin down a steep hill. Kept pondering how I was going to deal with it several times I was up there. Then, thankfully, the wind took care of it for me! I was not looking forward to messing with it!
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Imagine that. A land with no bears and chaps with ass'! I wonder, wood they STIHL be called chaps, or just pants? 
I've researched using Black Cherry for gunstocks before and come up with comments like (attached). I know that Ruger also uses Beech for gun stocks, but I won't say it is pretty! Wild Black Cherry is different than other Cherry wood.
I almost had a Black Cherry stock made up for my 338-06 as I thought it would look great with the stainless barrel, but the black synthetic stock is so functional I left it. I decided it's a hunting rifle, not a showpiece.
"Black cherry growing wild overlaps with black walnut for density and most mechanical properties are very similar, density for density. Black cherry in denser examples is perfectly good stock wood for most any application."
I almost had a Black Cherry stock made up for my 338-06 as I thought it would look great with the stainless barrel, but the black synthetic stock is so functional I left it. I decided it's a hunting rifle, not a showpiece.
"Black cherry growing wild overlaps with black walnut for density and most mechanical properties are very similar, density for density. Black cherry in denser examples is perfectly good stock wood for most any application."
...and me. Bought my first house there back in 1978.
I used to drive past the bat factory regularly as it was pretty much behind the supermarket where I shopped.
In my fine woodworking I found cherry to be harder than walnut and prone to chipping if you wonked it near end grain. The chipping can be a problem if the metal moves in the wood on a gun (we know that NEVER happens
). I know some of the custom flint lock builders will use cherry. Kibler Long Rifles offers cherry as a standard option for their kits (as well as walnut and maple) https://kiblerslongrifles.com/. They charge the same amount for cherry as they do for plain maple.... extra fancy maple is another $320 on the Woodsrunner kit! That said, every piece of wood is different. I know that the cherry I used for one of my last cherry projects was pretty gnarly stuff... lots of figure and varied in hardness from one area to another. I found some photos of the tray I made (in process... not glued up and no finish) that has splayed sides and was assembled with hand cut dovetails (compound angles!). I recall that I had to modify the size due to a chipping problem on one corner... the wood was brittle there.
The bottom is book matched and the figure and grain pretty much flow from one panel to another. It looks a lot better now that it has oxidized into a deep natural cherry color and has many thin hand rubbed coats of finish on it. In the background are some parts for keepsake boxes I made from walnut and curly maple and spalted maple. All that stuff was Christmas gifts. Some Cub Scout Rain Gutter Regatta boats are laying there too... My sons ruled that competition--they'd go head to head in the finals for overall winner. Like with Richard Petty and NASCAR, I interpreted the rules and guided my sons to take things to the limits. Like with Petty, the rules were modified over time... it didn't matter. 
MechanicMatt
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I liked the down hill little race cars better.In my fine woodworking I found cherry to be harder than walnut and prone to chipping if you wonked it near end grain. The chipping can be a problem if the metal moves in the wood on a gun (we know that NEVER happens
That said, every piece of wood is different. I know that the cherry I used for one of my last cherry projects was pretty gnarly stuff... lots of figure and varied in hardness from one area to another. I found some photos of the tray I made (in process... not glued up and no finish) that has splayed sides and was assembled with hand cut dovetails (compound angles!). I recall that I had to modify the size due to a chipping problem on one corner... the wood was brittle there.
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Kids now a days have sticker wheel weights
We used to have to melt our lead and pour it in a hollowed out hole
I remember my dad and the other dads were more competitive than us kids really were
Love the tray and the grain of Bk Cherry. Hand cut dovetails? Must have been difficult either way being a compound miter joint.In my fine woodworking I found cherry to be harder than walnut and prone to chipping if you wonked it near end grain. The chipping can be a problem if the metal moves in the wood on a gun (we know that NEVER happens
That said, every piece of wood is different. I know that the cherry I used for one of my last cherry projects was pretty gnarly stuff... lots of figure and varied in hardness from one area to another. I found some photos of the tray I made (in process... not glued up and no finish) that has splayed sides and was assembled with hand cut dovetails (compound angles!). I recall that I had to modify the size due to a chipping problem on one corner... the wood was brittle there.
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It’s not far from me . I go there couple times a month .
Yes, hand cut... and tricky to align the pins with the grain and not the miter angles!
Had a thing pop up on farcebook of a guy milling a black walnut log. He was ranting on how nice it was right down to the punky crotch. 
When he pulled a slab off you could see the rot falling out of it. I was obligated to post a HVBW video.
When he pulled a slab off you could see the rot falling out of it. I was obligated to post a HVBW video.Similar threads
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