Twisted Maple

[Timberframed]

Looked at a Red Maple today that has to be felled this fall. D=33" cbh.There were interesting qualities about this tree. The furrows in the trunk went up and around the circumference like a barber shop pole to twelve feet, 720° helical then forked into two where lightening hit it years ago so the Quakers tell me.. I will slab this one for sure after I fell it. Haven't seen anything like this in Acer. Curious.

 

[BobL]

Looked at a Red Maple today that has to be felled this fall. D=33" cbh.There were interesting qualities about this tree. The furrows in the trunk went up and around the circumference like a barber shop pole to twelve feet, 720° helical then forked into two where lightening hit it years ago so the Quakers tell me.. I will slab this one for sure after I fell it. Haven't seen anything like this in Acer. Curious.

I heard that if the twist (looking up the tree) is to the right it will have problems in staying together, if it turns up to the left it'll be fine. But it could be the other way around for you folk in the northern hemisphere.

 

[mrbentontoyou]

sounds interesting, hopefully get some crotch figure in there somewhere.

photos???





-roger

 

[Timberframed]

Acer Coreolis.

 

[excess650]

I seem to recall reading that those twisted trees are useless for lumber.

Before you slab it, peel some bark and see if its curly. If it is, you might want to slab it 3" and sell it for MLer stocks.

Where is Carversville?

 

[Timberframed]

Carversville is west of Lumberville and the Delaware River. But actually I'm at Peters Corner which can be found on older maps. Here's a shot from last February. The house is for beer drinking and the shop is...well...for beer drinking too when the main switch for the machines is off and locked.

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[qbilder]

Carversville is west of Lumberville and the Delaware River. But actually I'm at Peters Corner which can be found on older maps. Here's a shot from last February. The house is for beer drinking and the shop is...well...for beer drinking too when the main switch for the machines is off and locked.

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Reminds me of a Christmas card. I grew up in Ohio & REALLY miss the northern seasons. Here in NM desert it's brown, hot & dusty almost all the time.

 

[Muffler Bearing]

Carversville is west of Lumberville and the Delaware River. But actually I'm at Peters Corner which can be found on older maps. Here's a shot from last February. The house is for beer drinking and the shop is...well...for beer drinking too when the main switch for the machines is off and locked.

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Somebody hit him with a rep for me. I'm out with all the newbies.

 

[BlueRider]

I heard that if the twist (looking up the tree) is to the right it will have problems in staying together, if it turns up to the left it'll be fine. But it could be the other way around for you folk in the northern hemisphere.

Sounds like folklore to me. The one spiral grain log I milled was maple and the boards stayed together just fine but they all twisted. I was able to cut the boards down in width and joint and plane them into usable lumber. the problem came two years later when the seasonal movement blew apart all the glue joints. Total waste of time building that piece of furniture, total wast of time preppeing the lumber, total waste of time milling the tree. It all ended up in the wood stove and I would have had more wood to burn if I hadn't made so much sawdust out of it.

Spiral grain logs make great fire wood and that is the exptent of their usefullness. don't be tempted by the prospect of curly figure as the lumber will be beautiful and absolutely useless.