Log on fire after 1st board

[Coon]

Bandmill Bandit, looks like you guys finally got some more snow....  I could fart and blow DanG near all the snow out of my yard.     We have a bit more snow up at the farm 75 miles away but still nothing of any significance.

I have a couple of nice size birch about the size of that log or bigger on the farm too and they will most likely have the brownish center just like that one as that is the norm for anything that big.  Seems that we get it in any birch about 10 inch diameter and bigger.  It ranges in color from a very light color to dark chocolate brown.  The darker the color the more likely it will be that the dark wood will separate from the lighter as it dries.  We have lost alot of lumber to this over the years and normally most guys around here take the side lumber and throw the rest into firewood.

[SwampDonkey]

We get white birch here up into the high 30" range. A lot of the big old ones died or where cut. That big old birch I photographed back 6 years ago must be getting close to the low 20's now. It's a dominant overstory tree on a maple ridge. But it's a 75 foot tree to.

[customdave]

Bandmill Bandet, the reason I was so curious is I just aquired 30 or 40 birch logs from Alder Flats country & they look the same as yours, bigger dia with fairly large dark centers & bark is farily white, 18" to 12" dia. I won't be sawing them for a while as they are real green yet, looks like it will be interesting opening them up. Going to turn them into wall board & some flooring...


                                         Dave

[pyrocasto]

Reminds me of some maple I cut. Beautiful wood you got there!

[WDH]

Ambrosia, Ambrosia!

[5quarter]

Pyrocasto...hows your mill holding up? any current pics of your setup? good looking lumber, btw...

[Bandmill Bandit]

those are some good looking pieces to pyrocasto.

Here area  couple more I cut from a different log on wednesday.

 

 

 

[T Welsh]

Bandmill Bandit, Looks like pin cherry? Tim

[SwampDonkey]

That's got to be a white birch, it's too big for those prairie birches mentioned earlier. The bark looses it's curl down low on the trunk when white birch gets big.

Birch is poor man's cherry.

I've got pin cherry here and there is a lot of yellow, pink and dark rings in it. Plus the bark is a real dark red, it's almost black. Pin cherry does get some small saw log sizes.

[Bandmill Bandit]

I will take some pics of a log before I cut it and get them posted. I really am not sure what it is but I know that there is fair bit of very nice 20 to 24 inch trees on this property. We measured one the other day that is just a over 30" ABH. The land owner says that is one of the bigger ones but also said he knows of a few that are at least that size and bigger. lots in the 20 inch range. 

[SwampDonkey]

White birch, you only have so many species of birch, most are shrubs (with the occasional small log), white birch is a saw log tree.

As I said earlier in another thread (maybe here to) white birch can have darker heartwood than the ordinary white wood.

Here is a 18" birch, notice the tight bark.



But up top in the limbs it's shedding bark. A big strip there on the far left.



We are beech, you will be assimilated.

[Bandmill Bandit]

Yup SwampDonkey

That pic is about as close you can get to what is on this property except the bark is a bit more of a white color and the branches tend to be a bit more prolific and bushy. The tallest to the branch point that I have seen would be around 20 +/- a couple of feet for any thing that is 18" + BHD. The ones I have see so far are nice and straight too.

I will get some standing tree pics up as soon as I take them.

[Bandmill Bandit]

current job site set up where I cut the birch in the pics above.
 

 

Roll way is about a 1/3 left of what I put on after lunch(18 or 19 logs) . I took the picture about 430PM.
Hitachi 200 with grapple sitting just out of pic for handling all utility/fire wood etc and loading roll way. 

Also had a forester that worked for Weyerhaeuser as timber cruiser as a helper today. I learned alot about local trees. He is getting me a copy of the the current guide in use in the Alberta foresty industry.

[jueston]

We are beech, you will be assimilated.

i'm not sure how many people here on the forum are nerdy enough to understand why thats funny.... 

[5quarter]

I for one have no idea what that is in reference to...

Picard out.

[SwampDonkey]

[samandothers]

Resistance is FUTILE!