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Offline SwampDonkey

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Re: Mystery pine?
« Reply #20 on: November 05, 2005, 07:21:21 pm »
That term whitewood: Loggers up here refer to it as understory shrubs, such as hobblebush, moosewood, mountain maple and hazel bushes. :D :D The only shrub in the lot that would be merchantable is moosewood (aka striped maple). I've seen it cut for hardwood pulp.

Pre-commercial thinning pays off. :)

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Offline raycon

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Re: Mystery pine?
« Reply #21 on: November 10, 2005, 10:45:53 pm »
I have about twenty logs left that look similar. We have no market for such logs so I've been  milling  them into timbers (10x10's) man there light. The boat yards & boat haulers love'm for blocking. Search Brownell blocking for pricing. What they charge will shock you I don't know if they get people to pay that price.

What I've come to realize when it comes to nonmarketable trees(in our area)  is that the land clearers,log haulers myself we call the unidentified logs a name an it sticks until someone comes along and corrects us. We've been calling what you got in the picture Norway Spruce and on occassion we switch back to black spruce -- no logic.  The one indicator is I can bend over pick up a 7x10 14 feet long with out killing himself.  I figure they will make a decent rafter timber if the knot density is not to bad.
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Re: Mystery pine?
« Reply #22 on: November 10, 2005, 11:13:14 pm »
What I've come to realize when it comes to nonmarketable trees(in our area)  is that the land clearers,log haulers myself we call the unidentified logs a name an it sticks until someone comes along and corrects us. We've been calling what you got in the picture Norway Spruce and on occassion we switch back to black spruce -- no logic.  The one indicator is I can bend over pick up a 7x10 14 feet long with out killing himself. 

:D :D :D Sorry one of them moments. ;)

Pre-commercial thinning pays off. :)

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Offline Pullinchips

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Re: Mystery pine?
« Reply #23 on: January 25, 2006, 02:00:08 pm »
not sure if this has been said, i have not read all posts yet but not pond pine.

After rading more posts i see that a fir has come to consensus, maybe?
My first thought was fraiser fir by the log because i am not to good on firs, but it looked like a fir trunk to me.  So i'll go with fir, but no idea which species.

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