What wood Marc?
What free wood did you find today?
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What wood Marc?
Didn't take very much!!!!! Chuck
Maple....
My house is the yellow thing in the back ground, behind the trees/bushes....
Can't see any packages at the end of the walkway, so would not have recognized the house...
Not on sunday. they all came the other day. and....we have a new postlady. I made it a point to meet her and chat. Shes very cool. So thats a plus!
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My pallet breaker and I visited one of the shops I make deliveries at to take apart some pallets.
This is what I got out of 3 large pallets.
I do need to pull the nails yet.
Some 1" pine and 5/4" cherry. The cherry has a lot of sapwood but will work fine for the project I have it in mind for.
A bug eaten oak board.
Once I cut the buggy part out I'll still have a decent board.
A couple of them really had some width to them. The wide ones are cupped pretty good so ill just rip them down on the table saw before running them through the planer. They are 5/4" I'm shooting for 1" finished thickness.
This one was 15" wide.
All the boards are 60" long.
A bucket of spiral ardox nails. I account for every nail I pull so they dont end up in the tires of our vehicles.
The only 3 boards I rejected. When the shop owners give me permission to take apart pallets I take everything I dismantle so as not to leave a mess. If I cant use some of the boards I throw them out at work. If I had a wood stove I'd burn them.
Wood is everywhere and it's free, you just have to learn where to look for it. I could have filled my truck with stuff like this.
This is what I got out of 3 large pallets.
I do need to pull the nails yet.
Some 1" pine and 5/4" cherry. The cherry has a lot of sapwood but will work fine for the project I have it in mind for.
A bug eaten oak board.
Once I cut the buggy part out I'll still have a decent board.
A couple of them really had some width to them. The wide ones are cupped pretty good so ill just rip them down on the table saw before running them through the planer. They are 5/4" I'm shooting for 1" finished thickness.
This one was 15" wide.
All the boards are 60" long.
A bucket of spiral ardox nails. I account for every nail I pull so they dont end up in the tires of our vehicles.
The only 3 boards I rejected. When the shop owners give me permission to take apart pallets I take everything I dismantle so as not to leave a mess. If I cant use some of the boards I throw them out at work. If I had a wood stove I'd burn them.
Wood is everywhere and it's free, you just have to learn where to look for it. I could have filled my truck with stuff like this.
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Found six piles of this Bradford Pear, some of which is spalted, and spalted sycamore. The spalted sycamore is AMAZING and still super solid. Even have a few pics of the fruiting bodies of the fungi that caused the spalting
I went after a big piece of sycamore the other day and rough turned a couple very big bowls at 22” and 23” diameters.
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Very cool 
never turned sycamore, thats on my bucket list, lol. That Echo timber 
is one of the best bang for the bucks out there in chainsaws right now.
never turned sycamore, thats on my bucket list, lol. That Echo timber 
Nothing in hand yet, but spent a couple hours this afternoon walking and driving 20 acres of timber my nephew-in-law has.
He had a guy leave a flyer on his door wanting to buy 15 walnut trees he has in the timber. Guy told him these were all 16-18" DBH with about 15 ft of trunk. Offered him $210 per tree. Thought it was kind of fishy that the guy wanted to harvest 16" walnut, so went to take a look.
We couldn't find any that were less than 22" DBH, most were 24"+ and one was 33". Needless to say, nephew wont be selling that guy any of those trees.
Have a local guy who builds timber frame houses and is looking for some walnut to finish interiors, so going to have him look at a few and give a bid. He only wants dimensional lumber, so I'll get crotches as well as anything not suitable for boards. Could be a busy winter!
He had a guy leave a flyer on his door wanting to buy 15 walnut trees he has in the timber. Guy told him these were all 16-18" DBH with about 15 ft of trunk. Offered him $210 per tree. Thought it was kind of fishy that the guy wanted to harvest 16" walnut, so went to take a look.
We couldn't find any that were less than 22" DBH, most were 24"+ and one was 33". Needless to say, nephew wont be selling that guy any of those trees.
Have a local guy who builds timber frame houses and is looking for some walnut to finish interiors, so going to have him look at a few and give a bid. He only wants dimensional lumber, so I'll get crotches as well as anything not suitable for boards. Could be a busy winter!
No, I did not find this for free, but the looking was free. Was driving to a friend's house and came across this. Is probably a witness tree. A civil war skirmish happened right near this tree and Andy Jackson was supposed to be in the area buying ammo and powder in the area also. Now I know one is not supposed to lust - so I won't call it lust. But sure am wanting it very badly iff'n it ever ceases to have green leaves!
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Kind of looks like the side view of Thomas Jefferson...head at top, facing left, shoulder length hair. Other shape is more of a penal colony....
The wife and I were in the black hills from Wednesday to this morning,I was going nuts as there were piles of downed ponderosa pine trees all over the place. We were getting ready to leave this morning and I saw a guy across from the lodge we stayed at,cutting and loading some oak and pine,so I went and talked to him and got this. This is from inside the state forest. Which was what I wanted. The little stick is from Mount Rushmore. The other is from the side of the road inside the badlands.
I brought home two rounds of Japanese walnut yesterday. Hope to mill them this fall.
Pictures or it didn't happen! Chuck
Simple, I guess it didn't happen.
I wish that my free wood was pictured here, but this is some of the walnut that nephew sold. My free wood will be the crotch sections and branch wood that they left behind. 33 trees cut so I'll have plenty to take!
How big diameter are those logs? Picture may be deceiving. Looks 12-18" dia. to me. Maybe they had to come down, but would have been nice to give them another 50 years.