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Fla._Deadheader · March 05, 2004, 04:44:19 PM

We sawed this butt-ugly log tother day, and, MAN-O-MAN does it stink !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :

It DID have some interesting grain, though. It was also, HARD !!!

Take a look. BTW, it STILL stinks :

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Frickman · March 05, 2004, 06:29:18 PM

That's some interesting looking spalting going on there. How much of it is rotten, and what kind of wood is it?

sawwood · March 05, 2004, 06:38:51 PM

Wow nice looking spalting and grain. How long has it been
setting ? Is the Cypress Fla ?

Sawwood

Fla._Deadheader · March 05, 2004, 07:43:39 PM

  There's absolutely no rot. The piece is hard through and through. Don'T know how long it was sitting.

  We have 1---2" thick board and about 5---1" boards.

  Remember the "Chicken S***" Tree" post a short while back??? This MIGHT be that. It could be Chinaberry??? It could be something else??? I posted a "What is this" title in Plant ID last week, and got little response. I did post a pic of the bark???

  It actually smells like 15 Horses have been peeing on the log for 40 years :

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Frickman · March 05, 2004, 07:47:41 PM

No Rot huh? That hunk of wood sure'd make a purty bench in the front hallway.

Fla._Deadheader · March 05, 2004, 07:53:33 PM

That's what my son was thinkin of making. Problem is, when he gets a weird piece, he puts a high price on it, and someone shells out the bucks, and the piece is gone???

He is wanting to build a Grandfather Clock, using Chocolate Cypress, or Midnight Cypress. It is a very dark color, like Choc., or Midnight??? ;D ;D

Brian_Bailey · March 05, 2004, 08:11:39 PM

Looks like veneer to me :D :D :D

crosscut · March 05, 2004, 10:55:11 PM

think you have you a spalted holley tree there not sure if the smell is from bacteria or just plain rotten wood i run into quite a few smellly trees.here in fl. specially if they are in serious decline or newly dead for a lack of better description lol

shopteacher · March 06, 2004, 04:10:23 AM

FDH,
You didn't cut that near one of them transient northern rest homes, did ya? You know them old men don't see to well anymore. You might have cut down their urinal.

woodbeard · March 06, 2004, 04:17:52 AM

Looks a lot like hackberry, but I've never known hackberry to be very hard.

Fla._Deadheader · March 06, 2004, 04:36:46 AM

Crosscut, where ya been??? ;D
You MIGHT be correct. I fergot about that Holly stuff.

;D ;D

Flurida_BlackCreek · March 06, 2004, 04:57:47 AM

Looks like spalted wormy hickory to me.

redpowerd · March 06, 2004, 06:01:29 AM

dredged from outhouse basement?
nice wood, looks wormy to me.

dail_h · March 06, 2004, 05:42:29 PM

If it's hard,it probably ain't chinaberry. Pretty though

RMay · March 06, 2004, 07:30:25 PM

looks like persimmon to me

LeeB · March 08, 2004, 07:04:23 PM

I'm stil thinking hackberry or mayhaps elm. Really pretty stuff. LeeB

C_Miller · March 09, 2004, 04:20:52 PM

Harold,

on a totally unrelated note. Did you ever get the immovable log out of the swamp? I was thinking that it might be the one that's covering the drain so you may not want to disturb it after all.

C

etat · March 09, 2004, 04:45:49 PM

Me too, how about an update FLA. Didn't let that piece of log get ya down did ya

crosscut · March 11, 2004, 11:02:51 PM

hey ya fl we have been busy cuttin trees here. just cut down a huge sycamore. first limb we cut i knew tree was bad to the bone. got over half tree down.and tree was looking better and better old rotten rancid smell kept getting worse though finnally 3inches from the ground we found a huge cavity 3 inches from the ground 8 inch rotten spot appeared on it and underneaneath that was nothing but rotten and and worse even a bore test wouldnt have shown up on this tree. took the homeowner out and showed him sure made him feel better as i know he hated to lose the tree

Fla._Deadheader · March 12, 2004, 03:41:24 AM

Steve, ya doin any sawmillin??? We still gotta get together and let me pull the stick on yer circle mill. These guys postin all them pics of their circle mills gets me itchin to do 1 more round ;D ;D

Guess that Sycamore wasn't sawmill quality, huh :

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I'd like to get a decent Sycamore and Q-saw it on the Bandmill. Q-sawn sells well, here ;D ;) ;) :D

No go on the "monument" log, YET. We been so busy with "land" logs, we haven't even BEEN on the water. Gotta pressure clean the bottom of the barge. Anybody know if a 3000# pressure cleaner will have any pressure underwater ???

Tom · March 12, 2004, 04:53:40 AM

Probably enough pressure under water that you will have to tie Ed's .....er... tie Ed to something or you might have to chase him down the river :D

swampy · March 13, 2004, 08:31:01 PM

No Tom, thats why we keep it in shallow water, ;D the pressure will force me to the bottom and pin me fast so I can't go anywhere.

;D

Tom · March 14, 2004, 11:58:04 AM

Well, if you are going to point that thing up, make sure you know where your Daddy is standig and squirt him every once in a while for me. I'll laugh. :D