Ugly log makes some nice lumber

cutterboy · April 09, 2012, 08:16:44 PM

Hello all. This past January-February I cut down some cherry trees for lumber and firewood. Two trees grew together at the stump and seperated about four feet up.I cut the trees seperatly and took a few logs and some firwood. Then I went back and cut the stump as close to the ground as possible. This gave me a very ugly log about four feet long.

This week I sawed that ugly log on my mill and it was very akward to load and turn and saw, but it did make some nice lumber. Cutter

Ga Mtn Man · April 09, 2012, 08:52:24 PM

Very nice.

dgdrls · April 09, 2012, 09:19:28 PM

The gentlemen up the road is allowing his son to do some selective cutting to widen an MX track.
Similar butt is on the ground in Ash I believe. I think I'm going back to tag it!

Dandy looking piece of wood ;)

DGDrls

samandothers · April 09, 2012, 10:49:27 PM

That is PURDY

Whatta gonna do with it?

Okrafarmer · April 09, 2012, 10:58:15 PM

Now you are starting to do the kind of milling I'm ~~famous~~ infamous for! ;D

Nice looking piece.

WDH · April 09, 2012, 11:00:20 PM

That is awesome!

opticsguy · April 09, 2012, 11:34:06 PM

Seen one piece of wood, you've seen em all.

NO WAIT!!!

I mean I WANT to see them all!!!

:-)

Cutting Edge · April 09, 2012, 11:48:30 PM

That sure looks pretty....I'm can imagine 2 peices booked matched making a very nice lil tabletop.

What are your plans?

T Welsh · April 10, 2012, 06:23:05 AM

cutterboy, Some of the best wood that I have cut has come from the ugliest logs. I love the character of the grain. Tim

Magicman · April 10, 2012, 09:17:05 AM

Yup, ugly outside generally reflects character on the inside.

JohnM · April 10, 2012, 11:29:47 AM

Quote from: Magicman on April 10, 2012, 09:17:05 AM
Yup, ugly outside generally reflects character on the inside.

Describes the members of this forum to a tee, me thinks, MM! ;) :D :D

Kidding aside that is some really nice looking wood, CB.

JM

WDH · April 10, 2012, 09:07:52 PM

Why did you call MM ugly ??? ;D. He can't help it that he has some character on the inside.

cutterboy · April 10, 2012, 09:21:59 PM

Thanks for the nice comments. I'm going to sell the lumber after it dries. I'm not into woodworking, I just don't have the patience for the fussy work.

bandmiller2 · April 10, 2012, 09:26:08 PM

Cutter, you need to find the hard core hobby woodworkers they go wild over that stuff.The commercial woodworkers want to steal your wood,price is there big consideration. Frank C.

customsawyer · April 10, 2012, 09:33:20 PM

Nice looking wood.

Magicman · April 10, 2012, 09:40:44 PM

Looks and character are only in your dreams. At least "wood monger" is my friend or was he Bibbyman's friend.

Well it was a nice slab of Cherry.

cutterboy · April 10, 2012, 10:03:04 PM

Quote from: bandmiller2 on April 10, 2012, 09:26:08 PM
Cutter, you need to find the hard core hobby woodworkers they go wild over that stuff. Frank C.

Frank, that is who I sell most of my lumber to. Cherry sells fast. Last month I put 400 bf of cherry up for sale and it was gone in a week. I didn't even advertise it. I called one of my regulars and he came up the next day. I got two calls in the next couple of days from people looking for cherry and they wiped me out. I wish I had a forest of cherry trees.

Full Circle · April 10, 2012, 10:27:51 PM

That's nice looking cherry.
There's something about the ugly logs.....

markd · April 10, 2012, 11:55:30 PM

You don't have to be a fussy woodworker, two stumps and one of those gorgeous slabs would be a fine addition to any place you care to put it!! Markd

Migal · April 11, 2012, 03:32:41 AM

Kinda like Me Ugly only on the outside 8) even when I was done with a black walnut and seen the metal it was steel pretty :D Note: to all that's wondering Ive added several pics of a day at the Park milling around for a friend and Co Worker just click my camera I had no control of camera but the man and his wife came out for the Sunday afternoon! I had a blast 8) 8) 8) even

Monday cleaning all the pink and black walnut shavings off

markd · April 13, 2012, 01:42:37 PM

I've got an old sequoia log that I stood up on end and left it for about 6 or 8 yrs, the bark came loose and the sapwood rotted but the heart wood is still good. The butt was about 48" and at the top it was 28" so I made a 8' log and whittled it down with my chainsaw so it would fit on the mill today I'm gonna saw into it and see what I get, I'll take some pictures and post them. I expect it to be ugly log beautiful lumber.

samandothers · April 13, 2012, 02:33:06 PM

Markd
Do post pictures when you mill the log. I like those before and after pictures, kinda like a make over!

cutterboy · April 13, 2012, 08:59:46 PM

Yes Markd, me too. I'm looking foward to seeing those pictures.

apm · April 14, 2012, 09:54:13 AM

Can you levitate one on end, too?

Greg

markd · April 14, 2012, 11:51:20 AM

I levitated two on end!! But there's only one left standing. I sawed the first one yesterday and got some interesting colors, I took pictures but I can't post them till my wife gets back to load them in my gallery for me, I get lost boppin around on this thing. She'll be back monday. Markd