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Re: Sawing Short Logs
« Reply #20 on: December 11, 2008, 08:45:04 pm »
D. L.  Would the short logs you have pictures of as yellowwood be Cladrastis Lutea?  I have been looking on ebay and there seems to be several woods known as yellowwood.  Some of them even coming from Africa.  Don't want to spend several years growing the wrong tree. ;D

If I can find a seedling or two, I will grow that tree (if I can).  Thanks for posting the picture.  Tim
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Re: Sawing Short Logs
« Reply #21 on: December 11, 2008, 08:56:47 pm »
Quote from: nas on December 10, 2008, 05:44:40 pm
I can cut 4' lengths and am not too far away :)

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I am just down the road from Nick, i need about 4'6"

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Re: Sawing Short Logs
« Reply #22 on: December 11, 2008, 09:16:42 pm »
Quote from: Banjo picker on December 11, 2008, 08:45:04 pm
D. L.  Would the short logs you have pictures of as yellowwood be Cladrastis Lutea? 

Yes, Or known as Cladrastis kentukea. Bark looks smooth and gray like American Beech.
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Re: Sawing Short Logs
« Reply #23 on: December 11, 2008, 10:50:58 pm »
SD,

One of the keys to keeping the bark on is to saw and dry the log in the dormant season.
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Re: Sawing Short Logs
« Reply #24 on: December 12, 2008, 06:56:34 am »
Still seems to shrink and fall away. I think I'd epoxy the stuff in a  tomb. ;D
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Re: Sawing Short Logs
« Reply #25 on: December 12, 2008, 09:15:56 pm »
SD- Nope, I just cut the tree in January, and the bark held fast.  Next time I do one, I'll probably shave off the bark, because it was pretty tough to avoid getting the bark boogered up why I was working on it (and I wasn't completely succesful at it).
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Re: Sawing Short Logs
« Reply #26 on: December 12, 2008, 09:43:53 pm »
Any winter cut firewood we had around here, the bark fell off or was falling off by the time we tossed it into the basement, split or unsplit. So it's hard to fathom, if you see it from my side of it.  Not doubting the bark is on it, just hard to grasp I guess. :D Right now the humidity is about 15 % in here with the window open as it was raining all day and I have a fire. ;)
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Re: Sawing Short Logs
« Reply #27 on: December 13, 2008, 05:07:43 pm »
The faster you saw it and dry it, the more likely the bark will stay on.  This log was cut alive, sawn within a week, and stacked under shelter the day it was sawn.  Standing dead trees, logs that are laid out for a while before they are sawn, and lumber stacked in the open tend to lose their bark more readily.  Trees sawn in the spring and summer tend to lose their bark no matter what you do.
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Re: Sawing Short Logs
« Reply #28 on: December 16, 2008, 08:54:11 am »
Sawed a bunch of short logs this past weekend, from 6' long all the way down to 18".  I started off with this sourwood log that I cut off of my property this February.  I was pretty surprised by how little decay there was.  Just a ring of blue stain inside the bark.  The wood is kind of tan colored, but pretty dull if you ask me. I doubt I'll cut any more sourwood.




Next one was a small maple log that was cut at the same time as the sourwood.  I was hoping for some spalted maple, but I mostly got beetle holes and blue stain.  I decided it would make better bowls than lumber, so I cut a 3" slab and tossed the rest of the log.



My favorite log of the day was a Japanese cherry crotch about 3' long and 14" in diameter.  There wasn't much crotchwood in it, but the color of the heartwood was spectacular.  I'm glad I didn't cut this into firewood :)



Finally, I sawed up a walnut log 18" long and about as wide.  I got two 4x14" bowl blanks, six 3x3's and two 3x6's.  All of it was perfectly straight-grained and should make some nice turning stock.



After all that, I spun a few bowls: 2 walnut, 2 spalted maple, 2 yellowwood, and one Japanese cherry.  It was a good day :).
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Re: Sawing Short Logs
« Reply #29 on: December 16, 2008, 07:37:15 pm »
Nice!  (How do you like that 25 HP engine??)

The wood and bowls are good too ;D.
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« Reply #30 on: December 17, 2008, 08:48:32 am »
The first thing we sawed with the mill was a stack of white oak boards 14" wide, and she never broke a sweat.  I like the 25 HP :)
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« Reply #31 on: December 17, 2008, 04:27:21 pm »
I am jealous, and I want one too :). 

Maybe one day I can take her on a few paces ;D.
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Re: Sawing Short Logs
« Reply #32 on: December 17, 2008, 04:42:08 pm »
Next time you come up for a visit, we'll be sure to have some logs ready.  Oh wait, you've never come up for a visit ;D.  Guess you'll have to remedy that sometime soon :).  Anytime you're in the Athens area, you're more than welcome to drop in on us!!!
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Re: Sawing Short Logs
« Reply #33 on: December 17, 2008, 04:50:05 pm »
I will make a special effort to do so, so keep  some primo logs in the wings.  I bet that 25 HP hums. 

Haul it down here and we can work it over on some big oak :D.

I really do want to meet the little girl, so I will be coming since you mentioned all the improvements that I want to experience.  Life is short, you know ??? ;D.
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Re: Sawing Short Logs
« Reply #34 on: December 22, 2008, 07:46:26 am »
Dodgy, I am sorry to hear of your disappointment with the sourwood.   I was thinking it might have some potential.  What do you think causes the blue staining?  Also, those pictures really show how thick the bark is on a mature sourwood.
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« Reply #35 on: December 23, 2008, 08:41:41 am »
I can't say for sure, but I suspect the blue stain is caused by the same fungus that causes blue stain in pine.  I can't say that there's anything wrong with the sourwood.  I would describe is as having the grain of maple (very plain) with the color of beech (also very plain).  But the true test will come after the wood has been dried and planed.  Whatever the case, I'm sure I'll find a proper use for the wood :).
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Re: Sawing Short Logs
« Reply #36 on: December 23, 2008, 06:39:22 pm »
I am looking forward to your new thread, "Building a Sourwood Table" ;D ;D ;D.
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Re: Sawing Short Logs
« Reply #37 on: December 24, 2008, 06:39:56 am »
Me, too. I think tables make the best projects.  :)

I gotta make another inlayed one this winter, small one this time, I think. ;)  :D
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« Reply #38 on: December 24, 2008, 09:18:11 am »
Just give me a few years, and I'm sure I'll get started ;).  I like building tables, too.  And anything with drawers :).
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