lmbeachy
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Found this the other day while I was back in the woods looking for some Christmas holly. Not sure what it is like inside, will try to get it cut down sometime soon.
Ugly old tree
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john taliaferro
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i would paint the ends soon as it hits dirt , nice find
qbilder
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Looks like box elder. Really pretty cluster burls with wavy grain between. Awesome find. They grow common in low wet lands & often have burls, but that one is pretty dang smothered.
mrbentontoyou
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that's going to be nice looking wood!
be sure to post up pics of the inside.
be sure to post up pics of the inside.
Sawyer Rob
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GREAT find Less,
Check out this maple i milled eariler this fall,
Boy, did i ever get some fantastic lumber out of it! I'm thinking your log will have something special inside it too!
Rob
betterbuilt
I build stuff from milled slabs
I milled this 55inch(at the widest point) Maple burl last winter and I wish I had passed. It was full of dirt. It was beautiful, but way to much work. I only took a few pics because it was snowing pretty bad. That picture doesn't do any justice to the size of the log. It was big.
Timberframed
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I might consider a pressure washer if /when I run into this.I milled this 55inch(at the widest point) Maple burl last winter and I wish I had passed. It was full of dirt. It was beautiful, but way to much work. I only took a few pics because it was snowing pretty bad. That picture doesn't do any justice to the size of the log. It was big.
betterbuilt
I build stuff from milled slabs
I thought the same thing . The problem was in the log. every cut would open up pockets of grit. It wasn't like a something you could clean out. They were all over the place. I'd get going good and hit some of that grit and have to pull the saw out. I had a chain that the drivers were actually worn down from .063 to .050. You could have slabbed it better with your rock chain.
Timberframed
ArboristSite Guru
Betterbuilt, I thought of that after I posted. I remember this 3' burl I worked off a Maple. Grit in the inclusions near impossible to clear. Needless to say dulled two chains. Slabbing that must have been a bear! The ladder in the pic looks like part of a toy fire engine in reference to that monster. That grain is wild. Are you going to finish slabbing it one day?
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betterbuilt
I build stuff from milled slabs
I finished it in two days. I got 14 2.5 inch slabs from it before I gave up.
Timberframed
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Cool. I still haven't tackled the "Whale's Head" but might over the holidays.
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betterbuilt
I build stuff from milled slabs
That's a ugly Log for sure. I did a ash log a few weeks back and it split right down the middle of every board. It had a bunch of radial cracks and I guess I read it wrong. I didn't mind it cracking because the slabs were a lot lighter.
Cool. I still haven't tackled the "Whale's Head" but might over the holidays.
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betterbuilt
I build stuff from milled slabs
Cool. I still haven't tackled the "Whale's Head" but might over the holidays.
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kinda looks like a alligator.
Timberframed
ArboristSite Guru
Yea. Alligator skinned elephant like whale. Tusks removed. (terrible thing to say but it's a log!) Soon to be looking like filete Salmon in a big way.
