Sawmill and Timber

Forestry, Logging and Building => Timber Harvest Equipment => Topic started by: Stephen Wiley on May 16, 2009, 11:54:17 PM

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Title: Chestnut loading
Post by: Stephen Wiley on May 16, 2009, 11:54:17 PM
"What a day's work........"  was the comment Steve M. and I received from a local customer while getting gas after loading these Chestnut pieces.

I think we found the max weight for my little 12 foot trailer. Even with a low tire it did the task......go little trailer. ;D

Title: Re: Chestnut loading
Post by: Stephen Wiley on May 16, 2009, 11:57:22 PM
Off loading at Steve M.'s...............

Note the the six and half foot Logrite leaning against the big Chestnut in the last pic. (OK...........Df).  :laugh:
Title: Re: Chestnut loading
Post by: Stephen Wiley on May 16, 2009, 11:59:35 PM
Note the beautiful blue/black staining in the logs.................... :laugh:
Title: Re: Chestnut loading
Post by: Stephen Wiley on May 17, 2009, 11:47:20 PM
Frank,

Ready for a BBQ at Steve's  ::) :laugh:
Title: Re: Chestnut loading
Post by: Frank Pender - AKA "Tail Gunner" on May 18, 2009, 08:22:17 AM
Are you using that log as part of the gathering festivities?   ;D
Title: Re: Chestnut loading
Post by: Kirk Allen on May 18, 2009, 01:17:04 PM
Those are some monster chunks of wood. 

What type of Chestnut is it?  Chinese Chestnut?  I was under the impression that the American Chestnut is pretty much gone.
Title: Re: Chestnut loading
Post by: Stephen Wiley on May 28, 2009, 08:14:09 AM
Kirk, the premature leaf samples I was able to observe indicated 'American'.

Up until a year ago..... I knew of a grove of American Chestnut 20 miles away. Due most likely to ignorance they were cut down for construction.

I know of a few more still growing in the Willamette Valley. I was hoping the above grove would have been left undisturbed. Trees in that grove were bigger than the pieces Steve M. and I loaded. >:(
Title: Re: Chestnut loading
Post by: Stephen Wiley on May 28, 2009, 08:18:30 AM
I have posted these pics for Steve M.    OK Steve .............please narrate:
Title: Re: Chestnut loading
Post by: Stephen Wiley on May 28, 2009, 08:19:30 AM
two more................
Title: Re: Chestnut loading
Post by: Stevem on May 28, 2009, 11:58:04 AM
Thanks Steve.

Two passes made on the log to see what I had.  Two boards on the first and three on the second.  Repeated the the pictures but closer so the figure shows better.  I've laid out the boards as they came off the log, flat grain.
Then a view of the opened log.  The gray ends are the rusult of using the local free "recycled" laytex paint fo sealer.  Same color as my house.  Question askers get told that's so it matches the house and not be a neighborhood eye sore. :laugh: :laugh:

I did plan the boards to show off the grain better.  That way I didn't have to wet them for the pictures.  Au natural.

Lots of figure in the wood with quilting.  Looks like the whole log will be that way.  $$$$ I hope.

I'm cutting the one log that didn't "ring" with the metal dector.  The other has at least three bells.  Took out a fourth bell in the bark, it was only a 4d nail. 
Still trying to decide on what to cut from the log.  One idea I was given was to cut gunstocks.  Anybody got any idea? 
Title: Re: Chestnut loading
Post by: Frank Pender - AKA "Tail Gunner" on June 02, 2009, 08:30:14 AM
Wow! That is some beautiful figured wood. 
Title: Re: Chestnut loading
Post by: Stephen Wiley on June 04, 2009, 08:40:24 AM
Steve M. sent two more pics..............a nice close up and slab.
Title: Re: Chestnut loading
Post by: Stevem on June 05, 2009, 12:54:22 AM
Slab is about 58" tall and 23" wide at the narrow point and about 28" at the widest. 2" thick or is that 8/4?

I didn't use the slabber just turned the log over when  near the bottom.
Title: Re: Chestnut loading
Post by: Stevem on February 25, 2010, 10:56:07 PM
Well I finally started cutting the second chunk of that chesnut yesterday.  After cutting three nails, pulling another 4 or 5 and trashing two saw blades and scaning the bottom half to know it has at least 6 more metal objects in it, I've made a command decision.  The rest of the log is firewood.

But damn it had some pretty grain in it. 

Oh well, on to better thing.
Title: Re: Chestnut loading
Post by: Kirk Allen on February 26, 2010, 08:17:25 AM
That sucks.  Nothing like yard trees!  I still cant get over all those folks with yard trees that insist there are no nails in it because they never drove one it the whole 20 years they lived there.  All the while not realizing the tree is 100-150 years old.