What free wood did you find today?

Biggest disappointment was perhaps 15 years ago. There was a rumor about a piebald Red-tailed hawk seen in a large wooded and hilled city park west of town. Got out my big glass and tripod and went tip-toeing through the woods in hope of spotting it. Did not. Went back 2 days later at lunch and found a whole bunch of trees - probably 30+ trees had just been cut down near the parking lot for some reason. Curious, I went over and looked down and 'bout had a conniption fit. Well north of half were highly marked FBE.! Immediately made a bee-line to the nature center to see if they knew where the tree carcasses may be. Did not even know the name of the tree-cutter. Got back to office and started calling, found the name of the tree-cutter, called, but they would not tell me. DANGED! I lost all faith in humanity!
 
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I have a project coming up so I went to my storage bay to pick up some plywood. It's all 3/4" maple. I got this free from a place I worked at, it was all scrapped and thrown out, so I grabbed it. I have used it for many shop projects.
I'll cut the curvy stuff off to get the size boards I need.
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I need 32 12"×12" pieces for my project.
 
Can't remember the name of this wood, but it is fairly common along the beach here in Taiwan. Beautiful red hardwood and I got loads after the city trimmed these trees the other day. Second pictures are some Indian Almond Burl cut on my land by my landlord who didn't want it falling on the house in a typhoon. Had a big burl in it I mentioned in the logging forum as looking like the Predator without his mask on. No, Indian almond is not almond. Just a name.

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@Byron Barker you get some very cool wood there. Stuff we in the states consider exotic is just normal everyday wood there. :cool:
 
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Can't remember the name of this wood, but it is fairly common along the beach here in Taiwan. Beautiful red hardwood and I got loads after the city trimmed these trees the other day. Second pictures are some Indian Almond Burl cut on my land by my landlord who didn't want it falling on the house in a typhoon. Had a big burl in it I mentioned in the logging forum as looking like the Predator without his mask on. No, Indian almond is not almond. Just a name.

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That's not Pyinkado (Xylia xylocarpa) is it..?.. A couple of samples might be cool when you ID the plant. Keep me in the loop if you can.
 
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Very nice crotch figure in those pieces. A sore back is a small price to pay for those.:cool:
 
The app on my phone IDed it as Tamanu / beautyleaf / Calophyllum inophyllum. All the pictures lined up. It had distinct flowers and fruit right now, so that confirmed it even more. I guess it was to the tribes of the Pacific Islands what oak was to the Europeans...according to Wikipedia.

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That's not Pyinkado (Xylia xylocarpa) is it..?.. A couple of samples might be cool when you ID the plant. Keep me in the loop if you can.
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The app on my phone IDed it as Tamanu / beautyleaf / Calophyllum inophyllum. All the pictures lined up. It had distinct flowers and fruit right now, so that confirmed it even more. I guess it was to the tribes of the Pacific Islands what oak was to the Europeans...according to Wikipedia.
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I have a single sample of that species and have it under a common name of "Laurelwood". My piece is semi-flatsawn. I'd still be interested in more samples, to show quartersawn, a good sapwood and heartwood piece or other. Let me know if you end up with some to sell. Thanks.
 
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I have a single sample of that species and have it under a common name of "Laurelwood". My piece is semi-flatsawn. I'd still be interested in more samples, to show quartersawn, a good sapwood and heartwood piece or other. Let me know if you end up with some to sell. Thanks.
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The Indian Almond is Terminalia Catappa. I have loads of each so I am fine sending you some samples whenever I mill it. Will probably wait till it dries up a bit. I got another one as well from the same area, but have no clue what it is. My phone can't ID the tree.
 
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The Indian Almond is Terminalia Catappa. I have loads of each so I am fine sending you some samples whenever I mill it. Will probably wait till it dries up a bit. I got another one as well from the same area, but have no clue what it is. My phone can't ID the tree.
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I bought a bunch of the Indian almond / tropical almond a few years ago. Guess it grows in Florida, at least that was the chain of custody I got. I'll get back to you on that one.
 
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The Indian Almond is Terminalia Catappa. I have loads of each so I am fine sending you some samples whenever I mill it. Will probably wait till it dries up a bit. I got another one as well from the same area, but have no clue what it is. My phone can't ID the tree.
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Byron,

As for Tropical / Indian almond, Terminalia catappa, I have a sample with pippy burl eyes, a sample with white-rot and a sample with red-rot. So I lack a common burled sample, a 1/4 sawn sample and a sample with both sapwood and heartwood.

On a side note, have a good night.
 
One of my neighbors who does all our grading and excavation called about my interest in some 12”+ diam box elder logs about 6’ and 3’ long and a big (20”+ diam) cherry log about 2’ long.
Dreary weather so will need to wait for things to dry up enough just to Anchor Seal the ends.

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Been beat and tossed about a bit I’m sure...not enough to explain appearance? Are you thinking anything else in maple family?
 
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Been beat and tossed about a bit I’m sure...not enough to explain appearance? Are you thinking anything else in maple family?
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I see a lot of soft maple, Acer rubrum, that looks just like that. The soft maple seems to lose the red and pink quicker than the boxelder up here. I was just wondering, like I said, if it is Box, sure smooth for that big, East coast Boxelder / ash-leaf maple often starts fissured bark at 4-6" DBH and by 10" it has more defined bark, similar to the ash tree family.
 
Yesterday a cabinet maker friend of mine says he was moving his shop and had a large load of prefinished Baltic Birch plywood scraps that needed to go to the dump. I told him I'm your dump guy!! This was the first of two loads. Those black bags were full of cutoffs also. There's that old say: One man trash is another...……...
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And the today a woodshop teacher called me to come pickup a load of mahogany and maple cutoffs. Said he had more but they shut the school down due to the virus

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