A neighbor dropped off this weeping cherry this morning. About four feet long and eight inches in diameter. The gent I’m teaching hasn’t experienced wet wood before. Just cut this morning.
What free wood did you find today?
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Congrats! Bonus wood! Chuck
My funds are always green Osage.
Curly maple rescued from a four yo pile of firewood stacked in a garage.
Congrats! What a blessing! Chuck
got a shoestring acacia landscape removal tree today
cut the stump into some blanks and put them in the makeshift kiln
cut the stump into some blanks and put them in the makeshift kiln
but end is about 20 inches
Some of those log sections on the trailer look promising. You slicing any on your mill?
Congrats! Looks like a quality bunch of logs! Chuck
i have lots of logs in this variety that are now 2 to 3 years old drying whole, i'll be slabbing some of those this fall.
these logs will probably sit a couple years
Show a few cut pieces when the carraige hits the tracks. That stuff looks like a winner. I know there are no truly straight yard trees so it ought to have interesting results.
it is definitely great wood, i have sold some of it here before. sap wood stays a nice white to cream and the heart wood stays brown to reddish.
it's kinda like a walnut/mesquite look as finished wood
it also is quite stable as it moves very little in drying and is hard like mesquite
Acacia is Purdy Wood!
have you worked up the blocks you bought from me
Acacia is some pretty wood.
Alan
Alan
I suppose it's purdy too.... kinda scary, I didn't see the last posts......
Alan
Alan
Nice stuff! We have a lot of it here in AZ too, a very popular yard and street tree, also one of the first to blow over in a wind storm, wish I had a mill when I see all those downed trees...
Not the scales but dId do a bowl for my sister's MIL. She said it looked like some wood that she would see when she lived in Argentina! No idea where it is now - she had to go into an Alzheimer's unit.
Not quite free, but close enough...
I was browsing the home depot scrap bin. My wife and I have a little free library outside, and the door gets vandalized or damaged maybe every other year or two. So I was looking for something cheap to make the latest replacement when I saw a bit of curl in the bin...
Not the greatest stuff. But for $6, got enough red meranti to make a new door and also shine up the sample below.
We'll see how long the new door lasts.
I was browsing the home depot scrap bin. My wife and I have a little free library outside, and the door gets vandalized or damaged maybe every other year or two. So I was looking for something cheap to make the latest replacement when I saw a bit of curl in the bin...
Not the greatest stuff. But for $6, got enough red meranti to make a new door and also shine up the sample below.
We'll see how long the new door lasts.
Wonder if Home Depot would even donate for such a worthy cause! Nice snag, nonetheless! Chuck