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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"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
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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:
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Note the beautiful blue/black staining in the logs.................... :laugh:
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Frank,
Ready for a BBQ at Steve's ::) :laugh:
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Are you using that log as part of the gathering festivities? ;D
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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.
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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. >:(
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I have posted these pics for Steve M. OK Steve .............please narrate:
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two more................
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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?
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Wow! That is some beautiful figured wood.
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Steve M. sent two more pics..............a nice close up and slab.
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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.
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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.
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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.