appears to have black line spalt as well as they blue stain like makes pine grey
What free wood did you find today?
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also has some yellow areas and the pink/red will disappear as it dries
i bagged it with it's saw dust from the prepping (pith removal) and put it in the stainless cabinet i use as a kiln, it will probably mold and add some more spalting while in the cabinet
Was way too white. Never seen any oak that was white like that and soft. I agree, the grain looks like oak. The outside of the burl had spaghetti grain but kinda flopped when we opened it up.
Well, when you get to the center, you will have stem wood on top and bottom that should better represent normal wood growth. That wood should better lead you/us to a better decision on species ID. I lack Sourwood burl as well...
Trev,
I have a single sample of Schinus molle, that clearly is not enough to represent. Might need to work out a trade or a sale.
i do have several logs that were dead standing so wood is dried and ready to cut into sample size, with spalting
i also have shoestring acacia 2 yrs dried that i just pulled from the cabinet and chinese pistach that i put in at the same time, dried and ready
I got some Shoe string off you when you cut it. Man that stuff dries into solid rock. I lack a flatsawn sample of Chinese Pistach. Let's try to work something out. Firecall, later.
Saw this species once before on Craigslist years ago, but didn‘t react fast enough to get it. I’ve always wondered how well it would hold those intense colors over time. Chuck
We had a pepper tree at our old house in Benicia, CA. If they all look like that I might have to make a midnight raid sometime. It was sure a messy tree, constantly dropping pepper pods and leaves.
With the drought and pine beetles here in southwest Mississippi this past summer, we’ve lost a lot of pine timber, mostly young, 5-8 year old trees. My place was pretty much spared because just about all of my trees are older, 15-25 years. But, I had one just off my yard that did not make it. 20 inches at the butt and about 80 feet tall and it had a fairly hard lean towards our storage building. I cut it this past Friday and managed to throw it just right down a hollow. Got five good logs out of it. I didn’t know if my new Kubota would be able to drag them out because it a fairly steep but it did. Wheels didn’t even spin. This is the three biggest ones
Nice tractor, nice logs, and nice place!
I have an appreciation for a nice stand of pine trees.
happened on this video of sawmilling of japanese arbor vitae crossed with western red cedar
known as a jolly green giant tree
beautiful wood
looks much like what i got above
East coast trade, the tree is called Green Giant. I've milled one, the wood was soft, softer than Western Red. The wood was a soft brown color with some streaks of lighter color. The parent trees are both in the Thuja genus. The Green Giant has a wide crown, semi-pyramidal, often 15' wide for a 25' tall tree. The crowns are thick and dense and great privacy screens.
The cones on your find do not match Green Giant. However, the woods are similar and bet they cut very similar. Great video.
Congrats! Great load of future lumber there! Chuck
This is in this morning's paper. Don't know what kind but if anyone's near Portland you might check it out. Might pick up a slightly damaged Honda Civic at the same time.
That looks like a Grimm situation there.
When I go into the desert where there are a lot of trees, I never see any that have been blown over from a storm.
When I go into town, if I'm in a neighborhood that just had a storm, there will be a bunch of trees down.
My thoughts on that is the desert trees have to send their roots deep underground in order to collect the moisture required to keep them alive. The city grown trees do not need to send their roots very deep as the water they usually get comes from sprinkler systems, thereby keeping the roots from going deep, causing trees to blow over. ............ Jerry (in Tucson)
Agree with you Jerry. Just look at the root structure of the tree in that photo. Not very extensive at all. And add to you thoughts about shallow watering, the concrete and asphalt also restricts root formation.
I have one of those behind the house, but my soil depth is the limiting factor in our area. 2 spades deep is all I got where I tried to garden last year... Not gonna be doing that spot this coming year.
Probably be doing raised bed gardening.
Probably be doing raised bed gardening.