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Offline urbanlumberinc

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Braggin board
« on: December 13, 2006, 07:59:41 pm »
I thought it might be neat to start a bragin board of sorts to post pics of big, highly figured, or exotic and unusual logs that members are sawing.  I'll start it witht this Honeylocust I got my hands on this week.




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Re: Braggin board
« Reply #1 on: December 13, 2006, 08:02:27 pm »
The log was 24"dbhx14' long.  Had to use the grapple to let it down easy to avoid crushing the neighbors sidewalk
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Re: Braggin board
« Reply #2 on: December 13, 2006, 09:22:47 pm »
Wow! and the best part is that if it was you taking it down you were paid a good sum to have that log!  Imagine us suckers that pay people to go cut their logs!
Lucky!
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Re: Braggin board
« Reply #3 on: December 13, 2006, 09:41:58 pm »
Cool pictures :)  Holding a log in a grapple in that manner close to breakables and people is SUPER DANGEROUS
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Re: Braggin board
« Reply #4 on: December 13, 2006, 10:02:16 pm »
Getting out of bed in the morning is dangerous too. Are we supposed to stay in bed all day?  Life is a risk. Use your head and keep civilians out of the way.  ;)
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Re: Braggin board
« Reply #5 on: December 13, 2006, 10:18:12 pm »
Quote from: urbanlumberinc on December 13, 2006, 07:59:41 pm
I'll start it witht this Honeylocust I got my hands on this week.


That's as good a place to start as any, honey locust is one of my favorite woods. They can have odd punky spots in them right smack in the middle of a nice board  :(, but it looks like from the mill shot it was pretty sound.
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Re: Braggin board
« Reply #6 on: December 13, 2006, 10:52:49 pm »
Beautiful wood!
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Re: Braggin board
« Reply #7 on: December 13, 2006, 10:58:24 pm »
Well this is the log I've got on the ground at the moment, I think it's bragworthy too ;)



It's about 11'6" long, and 43" at the small end (52" at the big end) and looks like it's all solid and mostly clear timber in there.  :) It's Monterrey cypress, which is pretty common here, and does grow a lot bigger, but this is a particularly nice log.

Hopefully I can get the saw into it on Saturday and show you whats inside  8)

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Re: Braggin board
« Reply #8 on: December 13, 2006, 10:59:04 pm »
Quote from: logwalker on December 13, 2006, 10:02:16 pm
Getting out of bed in the morning is dangerous too. Are we supposed to stay in bed all day?  Life is a risk. Use your head and keep civilians out of the way.  ;)
 

That said why make it even more dangerous ??? :)  
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Re: Braggin board
« Reply #9 on: December 13, 2006, 11:15:02 pm »
This is a whopper of a walnut, the base is 30" (without bark) and the length is 13'. The thickness is 3 1/2". Each slab weighs several hundred pounds. This was salvaged from a WALLY WORLD construction site. They leveled the trees all except for this one OLD, nice walnut and I thought "finally some sanity in a crazy world" then a week later the DA%M thing was down, SOB's. Fortunately, I was able to buy it and at least save the beautiful wood.  It was right on a REALLY nice farm with a stone house and nice barn, and they are butting the WALLY WORLD right up to the new property line just feet from the house and barn. It was probably the nicest farm/ house I have ever seen (circa 1840-60's maybe earlier). Ahhh progress.

 




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Re: Braggin board
« Reply #10 on: December 13, 2006, 11:22:02 pm »
yep real nice Crosby
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Re: Braggin board
« Reply #11 on: December 14, 2006, 12:19:15 am »
What's all that crayon work for? What do the letters mean? Why you doin' that, eh?

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Re: Braggin board
« Reply #12 on: December 14, 2006, 12:58:30 am »
Beeeutiful boards. At the moment I would give you the braggin' rights Reid. Joe
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Re: Braggin board
« Reply #13 on: December 14, 2006, 06:44:18 am »
WOW...Thaose are some dandy slabs, Reid   ;D  ;D  ;D
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Re: Braggin board
« Reply #14 on: December 14, 2006, 07:50:27 am »
just pine, but 2 nice butt logs  26"tops, showing no flaws on the outside, thought the one shows some on the top cut.




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Re: Braggin board
« Reply #15 on: December 14, 2006, 08:14:05 am »

 Pilon

 





  Last photo shows a full grown man standing near the logs.
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Re: Braggin board
« Reply #16 on: December 14, 2006, 08:49:36 am »
You can't say wally world and progress in the same paragraph, it's an oxymoron.



Where is that pilon being cut, I have never seen wood like that?


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Re: Braggin board
« Reply #17 on: December 14, 2006, 09:37:50 am »
Costa Rica and that is my wife's tree - unless people want to be damaged, KEEP YOUR PAWS OFF IT! (not damaged by me, but her...  :o )

We bought the whole tree for the house we are building.
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Re: Braggin board
« Reply #18 on: December 14, 2006, 10:26:03 am »
Blue marks are for dimensions, and slab #s for inventory. They are supposed to be yellow. I ran out of yellow crayon.

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Re: Braggin board
« Reply #19 on: December 14, 2006, 10:48:34 am »
Wow this is fun! 8) 8) 8)

Ianab, is the Monterey cyprus like redwood?  What does it get used for?

FDH pilon....Not much like that in Oregon! ;D

Wood Mills, I still have the genuine love of pine :-*  :-*:-*.  The others are interesting but pine has my heart.  Thanks for the pictures.

I am excited to present a braggin log when I get one ::) ::) ::)!

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