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

[treeslayer2003]

so its nice lumber then? i kinda like locust, it is bright yellow fresh but turns a golden brown. can't seem to find a big straight one now that i want one lol.

 

[Skeans]

did you cut that out with a saw? i see its much darker dry.

Yeah it was hand milled in the brush for a spring board on a large cedar now it's going to be a bar top.

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[Skeans]

Stupid is as stupid does.......... I'm worried about alders with natural lean let alone jack strawed like that. I chaired one alder so far and wouldn't ya know it was the little guy. Pretty sure the lean wasn't too bad on this and thought I could get it without doing anything special. Wrong. Should have coosed it. BTW that black stump is not mine.

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Since you have to buck out the split mill yourself a few boards and dry them for a bar or something different.

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[SliverPicker]

View attachment 462497 that's dry alder Mike. They are a tree you always keep your eyes on well cutting even gutting the heart doesn't always mean they aren't going to chair with alder. I posted some pictures of some very mature very heavy and big alder, even with rotten hearts they'd try to chair on you if you didn't keep up with them.

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Skeans,

What are those on the shelf there? Rolls of industrial sized ass-wipe for heavy alder days?

 

[SliverPicker]

What's yous guys experience with tanoak? I've only every cut two of them. Both where with an axe.

 

[Skeans]

Skeans,

What are those on the shelf there? Rolls of industrial sized ass-wipe for heavy alder days?

Oh yeah lol its just a spare room in my parents garage.

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[northmanlogging]

Gees, I loose contact with the rest of the world and all you folks start talking again.

 

[Skeans]

Gees, I loose contact with the rest of the world and all you folks start talking again.

I'm waiting still for a snow to knock down the brush on the back half of that 440c.

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[Metals406]

Gees, I loose contact with the rest of the world and all you folks start talking again.

That wind storm whoop on ya?

 

[nk14zp]

Will a bore cut work on those big alder?

 

[Trx250r180]

Will a bore cut work on those big alder?

Sometimes,a lot of fallers i talk to bore the bigger ones, all depends on the tree and the lean i guess

 

[OlympicYJ]

Since you have to buck out the split mill yourself a few boards and dry them for a bar or something different.

I might have but not my tree.

Alder is white and will turn a golden ish brown when dried. Sun shadow (similar to sticker shadow) will ruin a board as far as appearance. Take a 2000 a thousand board and turn it into pallet or frame. It's really a cool species as it can be stained to look like most other hardwoods.

 

[Trx250r180]

Seems like most of it is sold for furniture or cabinets ,i use it for firewood though .

 

[Trx250r180]

Gees, I loose contact with the rest of the world and all you folks start talking again.

Loose power in the storm a couple days ago ?

 

[OlympicYJ]

Seems like most of it is sold for furniture or cabinets ,i use it for firewood though .

Yup quite a bit. Low grade goes to pallet then next up is frame which would be used in couch and chair frames that are to be covered. Then there are a bunch of other grades such as cabinet and such that are lumped together as appearance grade. Most couches, unless maybe from Ikea, have alder frames.

 

[northmanlogging]

Drove home in that little storm, had to cut my way through some of it...

Power here was out fer 2 days, no phone for 3.

Anyway I like cutting alder, cuts fast and smooth, and it will hold onto the stump forever with a good sis on there.

What the folks at the mill are paying for peelers doesn't hurt none either. And the tops make perfect fyre wood

 

[bitzer]

Drove home in that little storm, had to cut my way through some of it...

Power here was out fer 2 days, no phone for 3.

Anyway I like cutting alder, cuts fast and smooth, and it will hold onto the stump forever with a good sis on there
What the folks at the mill are paying for peelers doesn't hurt none either. And the tops make perfect fyre wood

The more I hear about it the more it sounds like ash to me. Just got to know how to play it right?

 

[bitzer]

I heard about yer storm over here this morning on the radio.

 

[treeslayer2003]

The more I hear about it the more it sounds like ash to me. Just got to know how to play it right?

me too. of course, i wouldn't cut an ash that small, and i do chair fire wood trees some times............cuz i don't care? or for the sound?

 

[northmanlogging]

Someone should get the folks at Stihl/husqvarna/Oregon/Baileys/Wespur all liquored up and convince them it would be a good idea to buy plane tickets fer all of use to fly back and forth and try out some of each others timber...

I've never cut Oak, Walnut, Chestnut, Beech, hop hornbeam (irrron wood), or Cyprus, And would be super excited to try it out.