What free wood did you find today?

woodtickgreg said:
No pink, but did have ants in the butt log. I'm cutting around that. I don't think I've see ash with pink in it before. Most everything I've milled looks like what I'm using. I did mill one tree that was kind of on the redish side, wierd, looked like red oak. Back when the ash borers hit her they where taking down trees that still had some leaves, but the upper canopy was dying off. It was really a shame to see all these ash trees get cut down and just chipped. I grabbed what I could. What I have left now is the last of it, all 8/4" My utility trailer walls are 1" ash.
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In my "Limited" experience, fresh cut live standing trees have a pinkish or red hue. I gauge how long the Ash tree has been dead by the amount of pink showing. I don't know if that's a valid assumption or not. I love the grain and white color of live Ash and I just don't want some bleached out gray looking blanks.

I like completely white colored Ash lumber. None of the brownish centered lumber. Someone told me (someone from here?) that when ash logs/lumber has the brownish center/pith, the tree is in the process of dying. Don't know if that's true or not either.
 
I've seen quite a bit of spalted dead standing ash. Not much brown, but not as pure "white" as lumber harvested from a live tree.
 
Here an example of color variations out of the same tree. Not the best pic, just my cell phone with no flash. It's not as red as it appears, more the whitish yellow.
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The camera doesn't like the flash under the led lights in my shop, I get lines of shadows.
 
Don Ratcliff said:
I was wondering where I left that, thanks for finding it for me.

I still can't believe you are allowed to handle fiber optics. Do your terminations look like a fried egg or scrambled eggs?
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Man I handle every cell tower and e911 call center in southwest Mississippi. Leave me alone clown
 
djg said:
In my "Limited" experience, fresh cut live standing trees have a pinkish or red hue. I gauge how long the Ash tree has been dead by the amount of pink showing. I don't know if that's a valid assumption or not. I love the grain and white color of live Ash and I just don't want some bleached out gray looking blanks.

I like completely white colored Ash lumber. None of the brownish centered lumber. Someone told me (someone from here?) that when ash logs/lumber has the brownish center/pith, the tree is in the process of dying. Don't know if that's true or not either.
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Pink is a common hue in fresh cut American white ash that quickly fades as if cures. The brown is the development of heartwood. Trees live 3-500 years if allowed. After 100 -150 years they often start getting various grain variations such as "blistered", "quilted" and so forth. Trees are most often harvested before reaching 100 years, thus missing character figure. The "olive grained" white ash develops as the tree delines and nears death. The sapwood of ash has been the prime market for the tree well over a century. Lignin within dead trees starts decomposing right after death and the alters wood color and lowers wood strength. There are also pink colored 'white rot' that develops in some ash. A great wood to work and use.
 
Finally getting back ti cleaning up around the shed,pulled the tree out that fell on it and got it cut up. Kept a few pieces,that I don’t have room for,it’s elm I believe,and a couple pieces of boxelder from a branch that broke in a storm last summer.

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No idea if good or bad.....but it was free!!!
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From a neighbor's place that passed away last year. Daughter was doing some trimming and took this out. Hoping to make small bowls?.....and give to her and some others close to Ben. Biggest is 6-7" diameter.
In the pile of trimmings.....some big pieces of hickory too!!!
They said take all you want!
😁
 
My cousin had some cherry logs milled into lumber. There were a couple pieces too short to get milled, I snagged those quickly.
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Split them in half on my sawbuck and anchor sealed them up.
 
scootac said:
No idea if good or bad.....but it was free!!!

From a neighbor's place that passed away last year. Daughter was doing some trimming and took this out. Hoping to make small bowls?.....and give to her and some others close to Ben. Biggest is 6-7" diameter.
In the pile of trimmings.....some big pieces of hickory too!!!
They said take all you want!
😁
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Looks like a red bud tree. If so then that wood will crack real quick if the pith is not removed and the end grain sealed. It'll be pretty wood if you can slow down the drying to reduce any cracking.
 
Karl_TN said:
Looks like a red bud tree. If so then that wood will crack real quick if the pith is not removed and the end grain sealed. It'll be pretty wood if you can slow down the drying to reduce any cracking.
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She said it was Purple Smoke Bush.
 
We went way down in the woods today. Found a couple of these in an old creek bed. Historical aerials show an old field and homesite down here in 56 but all I had was a 22mag pistol and we ran to some hogs and a boar was circling us so we decided to move on out of there since we were about 500 yards to the ranger


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I was cutting some Oak today and I ran across this:
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I don't think it's too solid, though.
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I think it's an actual burl, but I could be wrong. I haven't a clue as to what to do with it.
 
djg said:
I was cutting some Oak today and I ran across this:
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I don't think it's too solid, though.
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I think it's an actual burl, but I could be wrong. I haven't a clue as to what to do with it.
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Looks like Scarlet oak....looks like a fungal infection but in the wood world anything made from it would likely sell as burl. Looks like dark staining along the sapwood and heartwood interface. Another reason to think infection. So I'd say it is a canker, likely Strumella.
 
Mr. Peet said:
Looks like Scarlet oak....looks like a fungal infection but in the wood world anything made from it would likely sell as burl. Looks like dark staining along the sapwood and heartwood interface. Another reason to think infection. So I'd say it is a canker, likely Strumella.
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I wasn't saying for sure whether or not it's a burl. Never found one before except a huge one on a live standing cypress tree (belonging to someone else). The tree did have some black ant activity. The center of the tree is really black, so I call we call it Black Jack Oak. I might be wrong there too. It is in the Red Oak family, pointed leaves.

For the heck of it, I'm still going to cut it open tomorrow.
 
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