Author Topic: curly wide quartered white oak (Read 2636 times)

woodmills1 · « **on:** November 28, 2009, 04:36:46 pm »

check this out. Hard to get a picture of both the curl and the quartered, as you move your eye over the board it is like a slide show. My cooper customer brought 4 pieces of this 3 foot log and he had to hand quarter it to lift the pieces. 143 bd ft in a 3 foot log with 2 15 inch wide quartered boards sawn plus 3 14", 6 12" nice wood. Hope the pictures do it justice.

scsmith42 · « **Reply #1 on:** November 28, 2009, 05:27:40 pm »

Man, that is sweet! I love wide QS boards!

woodmills1 · « **Reply #2 on:** November 28, 2009, 06:00:10 pm »

you had to see how loaded his half ton was with the hand quartered logs

Ironwood · « **Reply #3 on:** November 29, 2009, 05:10:33 pm »

Kinda tough to see but I can make out the angling curl in the backround. Quatered curly can get BUSY.

Ironwood

woodmills1 · « **Reply #4 on:** November 29, 2009, 08:27:53 pm »

move your eye side to side lika slide show...............

the nicest wood I eva sawed

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #5 on:** November 30, 2009, 06:42:02 am »

Is it curly-ripple like, or a strong ray fleck?

woodmills1 · « **Reply #6 on:** November 30, 2009, 11:29:31 am »

It is true very curly like the maples get.

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #7 on:** November 30, 2009, 11:49:50 am »

Must'a been stump wood, since the logs were short. The board ends show some tear-out. Still, cool stuff. Lucky find.

woodmills1 · « **Reply #8 on:** December 01, 2009, 12:14:56 pm »

Now the kicker

the wood belongs to my cooper customer, it was his log and he cut it short and hand split quartered it so he could hand load his truck

IT IS GOING TO MAKE

BEER BARRELS

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #9 on:** December 01, 2009, 04:02:47 pm »

Curly, quartered beer barrels, no less.

woodmills1 · « **Reply #10 on:** December 01, 2009, 11:31:47 pm »

yep

gonna be some nice looking barrels fo sura

but then I kno you know he can only use the quartered for the barrels

so some other nice curly riftsawn white oak is for?

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SwampDonkey · « **Reply #11 on:** December 02, 2009, 05:22:11 am »

The boss's new desk.

MikeH · « **Reply #12 on:** December 04, 2009, 10:12:08 pm »

Here is a nice close up I got of this rare bird.

dail_h · « **Reply #13 on:** December 05, 2009, 07:28:58 am »

I'd like a barrel of beer

Ironwood · « **Reply #14 on:** December 05, 2009, 09:00:18 am »

Mike, That IS nice. Ironwood

Dan_Shade · « **Reply #15 on:** December 05, 2009, 11:59:00 am »

I run into a real conundrum when I see something like that, Mike! I have no idea what to do with it, because anything that I do to it will make it worse :-)

Ironwood · « **Reply #16 on:** December 05, 2009, 04:44:55 pm »

You know since you mentioned it, ther is nothing more sinful (IMHO) than seeing Cadillac material made into Chevette.

Ironwood

Chico · « **Reply #17 on:** December 05, 2009, 06:35:26 pm »

Why is it he can only use quartered wo for a barrel Choice I assume

Dan_Shade · « **Reply #18 on:** December 05, 2009, 07:40:51 pm »

I think all barrels are quartersawn material. There was a video on the forum a while back showing the process. the factories have some pretty neat equipment used to quartersaw the staves (I think that's what they are called). they probably use quartersawn material due to it's stability.

white oak makes good barrels for liquid storage due to it's closed pore nature.

Here is a link to the post with the video: http://www.forestryforum.com/board/index.php/topic,35368.0.html

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #19 on:** December 06, 2009, 07:21:58 am »

Not all barrels are quartered, white oak is because it is open grained but tylosis fills the pores. It's quartered to ensure water tight. Up here potato barrels were never quartered. The last ones dad bought were white cedar made 30 years ago and they stayed like brand new barrels all them years unless someone ran over or crushed one. They were some nice barrels and very light to wheel around, made locally. Used to pressure wash them to disinfect for seed potatoes and they would shine up like new.

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Author Topic: curly wide quartered white oak (Read 2636 times)