Yeah, the fact that I always listed them as "dry, educational wood samples without bark" probably did the trick.
What free wood did you find today?
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I have sent green -clean black ash burl. Good ta go
Wow, you got lucky. I am not sure and it must have to do with my description as I always enter it in the custom documents as guitar building wood. It probably goes more under the microscope as I never write it up anything other than that. I just won’t ship anything on that side of the continent…………..including one specific country as I choose not to do any transactions with them and if someone ask me to freight forwarded here to a freight forwarder knowing it will be going into that country, well it is NOT ever going to happen. EVER.
We lived in Brisbane for 3+ years and travelled back and forth to NZ and the US. And customs in both countries were some of the most stringent I've experienced. Even within Australia - I went to Thevenard and Barrow Island for work and they checked our shoes, our luggage, both coming and going. Their big concern was bringing in invasive flora via seeds, but also micro spores, etc. I think now they have tourist accomodations on Thevenard so maybe they've given up on trying to keep invasives off.
Sorry, not up for taking the risks. Maybe check with some of the IWCS Europe members, bet one of them would trade you or buy outright.
Guess, I've gotten lucky also. Received a number of packages of wood from AUS and not quarantined. Some were "finished", but many were not and included burly stuff.
yeah, its such a small world its next to impossible to keep anything out anymore. California used to stop all incoming traffic and ask if you had any fruits or veggies in your car. They were trying to protect the crops. They gave it up years ago.
All traffic is diverted through the customs check station at the northern border in Doris, CA. But they just ask if you have any fruits and veggies, nobody ever asks to look in your coolers or the boxes in back or anything. I remember the one down south was clear up near San Onofre Nuke Plant, which always struck me as weird, since it's something like 70 miles north of Tijuana.
About 5 years ago I brought in an enclosed trailer 1/3 full of lumber, mostly Cherry, Walnut, and Hickory, that I picked up from a friend in Pennsylvania, and drove into California, coming in from Reno. The check station was not keen on the load, particularly because of the live edge Walnut. Initially they had talked to me about taking it for fumigation in Reno. I was dreading any possible decision like this by them. They deliberated for about an hour, meanwhile the lumber was examined by more agents. Eventually, they came back to me and let me proceed, thank goodness! I told them when I reached home that I would personally fumigate the wood before offloading it from the trailer (which I did ASAP when I got home)! Guess I got lucky that time! Chuck
my brother brought a load of walnut slabs from the lower midwest, to las vegas. got stopped and hassled in Needles CA. as i40 passes just through the corner of the California desert, before you turn north on 95 headed for Nevada. A few ants spotted by the check station guy nearly got his load confinscated, after some choice words from my brother about no wanting or intending to every be in or want to go to California, they let him proceed, through the corner of their highly separatist state so he could get to nevada, with his very dangerous wood
Looks like about ten miles of CA highway and not even 1 mile into CA to get through to NV. He could go through town and avoid the hassle and taint of entering CA… The ants probably didn’t want to go there either...
Alan
Alan
Went back to a building I own that has been closed up for about 6 years. This wood is about 10 years in the building.
Ranging from oak to poplar to erc to sweet gum and possibly a type of two other that I didn't name yet... Thinnest piece is .5 inch thickest is around 4 inches..was hoping to find a piece of sassafras that I remembered but apparently I gave it away before I shut the place up. It was the size of a railroad tie. And was mostly dry 10 years ago.... I wanted have something to brag about. Oh well guess this 16/4 oak crotch will have to do for now.
Ranging from oak to poplar to erc to sweet gum and possibly a type of two other that I didn't name yet... Thinnest piece is .5 inch thickest is around 4 inches..was hoping to find a piece of sassafras that I remembered but apparently I gave it away before I shut the place up. It was the size of a railroad tie. And was mostly dry 10 years ago.... I wanted have something to brag about. Oh well guess this 16/4 oak crotch will have to do for now.
Another hackberry pile, so I guess it's "free" wood. Several had fallen during the last good storm we had. And another one fell that I haven't gotten out on the pile yet. Might have the hubs cut me some rounds for drying. Or I guess I could use my recip saw...
The "almost rotted" spalted hackberry can be spectacular watch for black lines when you saw a section off.
A very small sumac tree :)
That’s a nice yellow coloring in there. Wonder if that would fade to brown eventually. Chuck
african sumac turns red over time
I have to take down the last two aspens out front by the driveway. They hardly got any leaves at all this summer so they're done. All the white barked trees around here were getting some sort of fungus or something that weakened them. Anyway, one is 16" about chest high and the other is about 12" diameter around chest high. If anyone wants any of it I'll save it when we take it down. I don't want anything for it, just don't want it to go to the dump if someone wants some. I doubt there's any figure anywhere, but maybe a crotch or two.
Where do you live?
Aspen wood is very light in color in my experience, not as light/white as Holly. If I still lived in Northern California, I would come up for some. Chuck