The "Not So Pro" discussion thread...of course Pros are welcome!

[roberte]

so Robert, do any finish work? or jus framin[/QUOTE

I have framed more buildings than I can remember, but yes I have done finish and ill post some more pics this week.

 

[treeslayer2003]

i'd love ta see um, I did some in my house. only to suit me, not a 90 degree corner in it.

 

[jrcat]

i'd love ta see um, I did some in my house. only to suit me, not a 90 degree corner in it.

Gotta love old crooked houses. Mine is an old house and was full of plaster and lathe. I gutted alot of it out. That stuff is nasty. I also have a lot of hand hewn beams in the basement still solid too. I need to replace the sill plates though.. I can poke my fingers into em...All in due time ..

 

[treeslayer2003]

husk, its ok I see what yer sayin. we were jus a little cornfused

 

[roberte]

husk, its ok I see what yer sayin. we were jus a little cornfused

Yeah husk, its cool , you want to mention my name, cool , heck I might even have it coming

 

[jrcat]

TC how did you do with making an album?

 

[twochains]

TS what is tulip poplar really used for? Not much of it grows in my area. Liriodendron tulipifera - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

jrcat- my first real job was when I was 12 years old working for a retired slave plantation in rural Kentucky (my home town). On this old plantation there was one of the most magnificent mule barns I to this day have ever seen! It was a 20 mule stall set up and ALLL the lumber in th barn was tulip poplar. Unbelievable lumber, best I can remember was full 2in stuff really wide and exceptional lengths. I would figure that Tulip Poplar was heavily used for building back in the day. I have some Tulip Poplar from Ky. that is at my Dad's old plce here in Arkansas, it has been sawn for over 50 years and is super nice high grade stuff. Going to sel it and about a 1000 ft of high grade walnut sawn at the same time. Beautiful stuff that pile of wood is.

 

[jrcat]

Yeah husk, its cool , you want to mention my name, cool , heck I might even have it coming

If you have it comin Roberte so do I lol

 

[twochains]

TC how did you do with making an album?

Didn't...been watching "The Killing" on tv... WOW that's a jacked up show!

 

[treeslayer2003]

any body heard of horse chestnut?

 

[jrcat]

any body heard of horse chestnut?

Nope just American chestnut which is all but extinct thanks to our asian friends

 

[treeslayer2003]

Nope just American chestnut which is all but extinct thanks to our asian friends

could be the same, dad talked bout his father telling him how tall and straight they were. don't think I ever seen one, wonder what the lumber looked like

 

[jrcat]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesculus_hippocastanum


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_chestnut

 

[bitzer]

We've got horse chestnut all over the towns up here. American chestnut is a different tree. They used to be huge ####### trees. Really nice looking wood. Until the blight came. You guys move way too fast through this thread. No way for me to keep up.

Thank god for big timber and steep ground. The machines can't get em all!

 

[jrcat]

could be the same, dad talked bout his father telling him how tall and straight they were. don't think I ever seen one, wonder what the lumber looked like

TS they are not the same. American Chestnut was nicknamed to redwood of the east. They would grow to enormous size by our standards and tall.

 

[treeslayer2003]

hey bitz, ya making out ok? love ta see more of that packer back.

 

[jrcat]

We've got horse chestnut all over the towns up here. American chestnut is a different tree. They used to be huge ####### trees. Really nice looking wood. Until the blight came. You guys move way too fast through this thread. No way for me to keep up.

Thank god for big timber and steep ground. The machines can't get em all!

Bitz from what I understand there is a few groups working on hybrids that are blight resistant. The results are promising. I have seen a few here and there but most end up with the blight before long. There is a small patch near Warren PA that is NOT infected as of yet,but they are young and well guarded from visitors to keep any possible infection to a minimum.

 

[HuskStihl]

Yeah husk, its cool , you want to mention my name, cool , heck I might even have it coming

I will say Roberte, when you say stuff it sounds like you've actually done it before


Now that Bitzer guy.........
:msp_biggrin::msp_biggrin:

 

[bitzer]

Well as long as it doesn't rain tonight I'll be sittn in the Franklin tomorrow. It seems that just about when its dry enough it rains again. I'll get more pics up this week.

Yeah I don't know if the chestnuts grew this far north, but from what I understand they were a huge source of timber during early America.

 

[bitzer]

I will say Roberte, when you say stuff it sounds like you've actually done it before


Now that Bitzer guy.........
:msp_biggrin::msp_biggrin:

I'm one of the biggest bull####ters you'll ever meet. No lie. :msp_biggrin: