What free wood did you find today?

Eric Rorabaugh said:
Would like to have been the one to take him but still happy for this guy. There's a couple on the farm that big or bigger. 🤞🏻I'll see one of them and they don't get spotlighted
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I don't have a link, but they caught a 18 yo guy who supposedly shot 13+ deer with a 22 adjacent to federal ground around Carlyle Lake (Coles Creek area) in IL. They said he bragged about it on FB. He just took the racks and left the meat.

I know the deep spots on the lake I'd like to drop him off in.
 
djg said:
I don't have a link, but they caught a 18 yo guy who supposedly shot 13+ deer with a 22 adjacent to federal ground around Carlyle Lake (Coles Creek area) in IL. They said he bragged about it on FB. He just took the racks and left the meat.

I know the deep spots on the lake I'd like to drop him off in.
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Poaching, be it wood or animals, is a disgusting thing to do. Poaching for trophies is truly evil and makes me hope that hell really exists for people like that. That said, poaching to keep yourself and your family alive, is something I can live with.
 
They just arrested a guy for taking at least these three bucks from the grounds of a penitentiary in West TN. At first, he claimed he didn't do it, but they used a ping warrant to track his whereabouts on certain dates and showed him proof that he had been on the prison property - he pled guilty. I cut out the section between these two photos, as it showed a TWRA agent who made the arrest. Somebody ought to accidentally bury him under the prison. A worker at the prison recognized,the double drop time in a post the idiot did! He had seen it on the property many times.

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Sorta free curly red maple. A good friend of a friend owns a barely used bandsaw sawmill, but he's now having major health problems dealing with colon cancer. So I spent most of yesterday helping my friend cut down four decent size trees and then helped get this guys water well working again.

Got to take home some scrap curly red maple for turning.

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Karl_TN said:
Sorta free curly red maple. A good friend of a friend owns a barely used bandsaw sawmill, but he's now having major health problems dealing with colon cancer. So I spent most of yesterday helping my friend cut down four decent size trees and get this guys his water well working again.

Got to take home some scrap curly red maple for turning.

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Scrap? Man my scrap consists of endgrain cutoffs, shavings, chips and sawdust. Your scrap looks much sexier.
 
Karl_TN said:
Sorta free curly red maple. A good friend of a friend owns a barely used bandsaw sawmill, but he's now having major health problems dealing with colon cancer. So I spent most of yesterday helping my friend cut down four decent size trees and then helped get this guys water well working again.

Got to take home some scrap curly red maple for turning.

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Sure hate to hear of anyone fighting colon cancer! Definitely time to reach out to help him through this time. Great looking scraps! Chuck
 
I’ve been looking for sumac trees for a while, only spotting them as small ornamental trees in gardens.

There is a very small population of very young trees on the road to the office, so I look at them every day, and I noticed the change in leaves colour now that autumn is halfway through.

Well, they really turn orange, so I started looking for orange wherever I drove my car.

I’ve been doing hundreds of miles since, and then I noticed a patch from the highway (when passing by at 80mph…).

I was able to locate it using google maps with satellite view and google streetview.

I was eventually able to get there and… there it is! A real staghorn sumac FOREST!

The trees grow several meters tall, with logs around 4-6” inches diameter, straight and clear for 10-15 feet.

What’s even better is that apparently this wood is very slow at rotting, so windswept trees are nearly free of any rot, and some good stuff can be found without hurting any live tree 😊

Wood pictures will follow!

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chatometry said:
I’ve been looking for sumac trees for a while, only spotting them as small ornamental trees in gardens.

There is a very small population of very young trees on the road to the office, so I look at them every day, and I noticed the change in leaves colour now that autumn is halfway through.

Well, they really turn orange, so I started looking for orange wherever I drove my car.

I’ve been doing hundreds of miles since, and then I noticed a patch from the highway (when passing by at 80mph…).

I was able to locate it using google maps with satellite view and google streetview.

I was eventually able to get there and… there it is! A real staghorn sumac FOREST!

The trees grow several meters tall, with logs around 4-6” inches diameter, straight and clear for 10-15 feet.

What’s even better is that apparently this wood is very slow at rotting, so windswept trees are nearly free of any rot, and some good stuff can be found without hurting any live tree 😊

Wood pictures will follow!

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You need to look again. The compound leaf shown did not present the many, many tiny hairs that run along the petioles and stems common on Staghorn. Looked like you might have Smooth Sumac, Rhus glabra.

Edit: The branch tips should tell the story. They are smooth on Smooth sumac and fuzzy on Staghorn.
 
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Boy, that stuff is a really rare find around here now. Back in 60-70's or earlier - lots of nurseries and landscapers were into planting them. But, they do not fare well here and most have died off and been cut down. For a while there - decades ago - I was finding them and collecting them quite regularly. Adirondack furniture was what I was making at the time, because of it.
 
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