but your post will live forever, lol
What free wood did you find today?
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I believe they are a bit hefty to ship to tn at a reasonable rate. We have juniper virginia style here. Also known as eastern red cedar.
Yeah, I went out and picked up a couple 18" long sections of 8" diameter log that they didn't stack and I'm guessing they weighed upwards of 15lbs. We'd just gotten some rain too so they probably had sucked up a bunch of water. This stuff seems to crack a lot as it dries. A friend and I took a section a couple years ago and hollowed it out using his chain saw, drilled a 1.25" hole into the hollow, and put a board over the top to shield the opening from rain to make a bird house out of it. The chickadees have used it every year since.
Picked up this tasty chunk of Carob today at the dump, about 16x16, destined for the lathe to be a couple of bowls or a hollow form, sealed it for now though...
Nice!
Oh Barry!!!! Any more of that around there?
sure! wanna do some tradin? I have some that's dry...
I was thinking the same thing. I'll PM ya.
Looks bad right here
Why don't you split that half off and I can dispose of it for you...
My parents are currently clearing off a lot to build. My dad saved me this black cherry. I plan to cut it into various call blanks. I might be able to squeeze a few small bowl blanks out of it.
Nice dog!!!
Split some of those down the middle and make some live/natural edge bowls.
These small logs will make some great things! Good that you have a watch dog to ensure against theft! Chuck
Thank you. She's definitely part of our family. She's trained to be a deer catch dog / blood trail, although she actually is a great gun dog even though not formally trained for that.
The only time she barks is when she's catching a deer or if a stranger comes to the house.
Yep that's what I'm gonna attempt to do once this rain finally stops. We have gotten almost 6" in 2 days.
Might backfire on you, looks like Red-rot in the pith and heart area. Sometimes it blends fine, sometimes it separates like shake but for sure worth giving it a try on several fronts.
That’s got some real nice color and character. One of my favorite carving woods and the chips are fantastic for smoking meat Or just to perfume the fire pit.
Yep it is great smoking wood. It and pecan are two of my favorites.
Right now I'm waiting on some nicer weather - the days where it's been warmer/nicer here have been too windy and we've had a lot of windy days lately.
A few weeks ago a member of my congregation - the one who I got pear, apple, and smokebush from this past summer - let me know that they dropped 2 (or was it 3?) more pear trees, and I think another apple tree. I've got first dibs on the wood. Just need a day of decent weather to coincide with me having a day that I'm free so I can go out and do some cutting. I've found out someone else in the congregation has an Alaskan mill, so I'm planning to ask him about it - would be nice to slab up some of the pear.
A few weeks ago a member of my congregation - the one who I got pear, apple, and smokebush from this past summer - let me know that they dropped 2 (or was it 3?) more pear trees, and I think another apple tree. I've got first dibs on the wood. Just need a day of decent weather to coincide with me having a day that I'm free so I can go out and do some cutting. I've found out someone else in the congregation has an Alaskan mill, so I'm planning to ask him about it - would be nice to slab up some of the pear.