Post-typhoon orphans

[Byron Barker]

Loaded up on red and yellow Hinoki cypress, golden phoebe, coffinwood and a slew of strange burls and spalted hardwoods I’ll undoubtedly never ID. An unseasonably late typhoon ripped straight up the coast dragging all sorts of goodies with it. They said it was the worst typhoon in 25 years in Taiwan. It seemed pretty generous to me. My house smells like a Japanese sauna now!

 

[Byron Barker]

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[Nature Man]

Lots of potential in all that wood! Some pieces look exceedingly hard to identify. Chuck

 

[phinds]

Great haul. Good price too ...

 

[2feathers Creative Making]

I have to grab my stuff from lot clearing or wood piles. That's a nice pile to sort through.

 

[DLJeffs]

Cool. Looks like you're collecting those off the beach. Do you find the soaking in salt water causes more checking or anything?

 

[Byron Barker]

Cool. Looks like you're collecting those off the beach. Do you find the soaking in salt water causes more checking or anything?

Certainly seems to check the wood terribly. I think in Taiwan that most of the wood washing up is actually wood that fell for whatever reason up in the high mountains some time ago. The typhoon will wash it down. It’s almost all heartwood and most of it seems very oily. I imagine the whole natural decomposition of the sapwood already damages the wood and then having it get tossed down a mountain in raging river full of stones doesn’t help! Last, it goes from being completely soaked to dry in just a few days undoubtedly causing more checking

 

[DLJeffs]

Certainly seems to check the wood terribly. I think in Taiwan that most of the wood washing up is actually wood that fell for whatever reason up in the high mountains some time ago. The typhoon will wash it down. It’s almost all heartwood and most of it seems very oily. I imagine the whole natural decomposition of the sapwood already damages the wood and then having it get tossed down a mountain in raging river full of stones doesn’t help! Last, it goes from being completely soaked to dry in just a few days undoubtedly causing more checking

Figures. But I bet you can still find enough that you can get some usable pieces. And the cost is right.