Not free but was a fun day with the woman, took a drive to Denver yesterday and visited an urban lumber dealer. Picked up some 8/4 stock and a sweet slab that I'm going to make a coffee table with.
What free wood did you find today?
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Yes, a lot bigger. I'll take some more pics if I end up going back.
That slab will be busy! What flavor?
It's a little hard to see it all in that picture, but it does have a lot going on. Crotch feather, compression curl. It's a silver maple slab it's roughly 36"l by 17-24" wide
That will show up very nicely when sanded a bit past the 3 grit of a sawmill... I saw the branch indicators and can see a bit of curl already. So, yeah! Let's take a look see when it is sanded up. I mill my own so I have learned to spot some of that in the raw. Nice grab and a clean color palette so your grain figure will stand out more than say a spalted or ambrosia slab.
Fresh cut Free Black Walnut beach pieces that I plan on using for Bud Vases and Hollow forms. 4-9” across and most are 12”+ long.
Does the salt air affect the color 
NoDoes the salt air affect the color
Nice score!
That matches well with the wood we are burning in the stove. Last week was Persian walnut firewood.
The Wildfire Prevention Committee got together with the golf course and identified juniper trees to thin out. To their credit, they invited any homeowners who bordered the golf course to meet them when they came by to give them our input about view, sound buffering, golf ball guarding, etc. That was last May. They're here today, cutting down the junipers. Smells nice but noisy as hell. Anybody need a juniper stump?
Stump, did they chip the rest? What species of juniper?
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Oh, no! Now @Mike1950 will have to roll out the Clyde photo!
Corrected, thank you.
Nah @Brink is the one that gets insulted by chimp comments.
Yeah, it was awesome. They fed whole trees into that thing. I bet trunks at least 6 inch diameter went through that thing. Blew the mulch all over. They had a crew of about 8 guys, first guy came through with a saw blade on the end of weed whacker and cut down all the sagebrush and bushes. Then two guys with chain saws came through, trimmed lower branches off the trees they wanted to keep and cut down the trees we'd marked with green tape. The rest of the crew came through with the dump truck / chipper, loaded all the branches and trees, bushes, dead limbs laying around. I think behind my house alone they cut down 7 or 8 trees and were in and out of here in less than 20 minutes. They stacked the larger cut up logs against the standing trees, probably to be collected later. I need to write the Wildfire Committee chair a note and tell him they did a good job.
As for what species of juniper - I don't have a clue. Juniper is juniper to me. I think they make gin from the berries if that helps. Smells great out there right now.
Gin, that limits it to 50 or so species. Glad they did a good job.
The tree guy that lets me cut firewood in his log yard recently got a mulcher that handles up to 18" dia (I believe he said). Really cuts into my available firewood. Not to mention, that's the perfect size to handle. The larger stuff kills me.
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Gee --- then I'm glad that Mark changed it before you got to see it!