Can you say "STRESS" ??

[Percy]

 

 

[Magicman]

Yup, they will sometimes do that.  I love it when the customer is there and watching.   

[Percy]

Yup, they will sometimes do that.  I love it when the customer is there and watching.   

:D :D :D Customer says "Huh!! I thot those mills cut in a straigfht line!. Howd you do that?? Can you make about 20 more like that?? I wanna build a barrel."

[Czech_Made]

I brought home white oak that was leaning against another tree for at least two years.  Some of the edges I milled were curling up right behind the saw bar.

[scully]

Thats gotta be close to some kind of record for stress ! smiley_inspector

[Percy]

Thats gotta be close to some kind of record for stress ! smiley_inspector

actually I  think the stress record is the head table at a wedding  of a Jewish buddie of mine who married a Catholic girl.  :D

[Dave Shepard]

I've had pignut hickory do that. We call it bending the hard way. :D

[Magicman]

Plantation Pine is notorious for doing that.  The lumber will do such also.   :-\

[Carson-saws]

Percy.... :D :D...I like the reaction folks have when it "POPS"

[AnthonyW]

I wonder if those are the logs HD and the like have milled for their stores. A friend once made the comment "those are the board for the gazebos and pool decks".

I recently cut a 12" diameter 10ft long poplar. The stress was to the side. Just before I finished the pass I looked back and the end had crocked at least 2" toward the load side. (sorry no pics)

[Dave Shepard]

A friend of mine was swing 30' red oak timbers on a circle mill with a long carriage and the stress was so bad on one log, the board bowed away from the log far enough to push the clutch lever on the powet unit. That made for a bit of a mess.

[OneWithWood]

When milling some aspen I had a board actual catapult across the barn   

[petefrom bearswamp]

Hemlock does this too

[4x4American]

I seen a video of some foreign sawyers sawing some kinda wood that they cut in a little ways and then stop and put a chain around the log so that when it pops it don't break stuff. 


And people think it isn't a stressful job...

[PC-Urban-Sawyer]

Thats gotta be close to some kind of record for stress ! smiley_inspector

actually I  think the stress record is the head table at a wedding  of a Jewish buddie of mine who married a Catholic girl.  :D

Try a southern Southern Baptist marrying a Canadian Irish Catholic... Now you're talking stress, especially since the Baptist was divorced (long story....)

Herb

[GeneWengert-WoodDoc]

You haven't seen stress (called growth stress) until you sawn eucalyptus species.  Sometimes the stress is so bad that the log will have on the end three big cracks before the log even hits the ground.  For this reason...growth stress...some species are always sawn with two saws- -twin band or Skagg saw are two examples - -to keep the stress balanced. I have also seen a metal strap put across the end of every piece of this lumber so that large end splits could not grow excessively.

[JustinW_NZ]

You haven't seen stress (called growth stress) until you sawn eucalyptus species.  Sometimes the stress is so bad that the log will have on the end three big cracks before the log even hits the ground.  For this reason...growth stress...some species are always sawn with two saws- -twin band or Skagg saw are two examples - -to keep the stress balanced. I have also seen a metal strap put across the end of every piece of this lumber so that large end splits could not grow excessively.

yip, I spend my life fighting with this stuff and couldn't agree more.

when felling the trees listening to them hit the ground and watching (and hearing) the butt end quartering itself is impressive.

Cheers
Justin

[5quarter]

I've got a couple very large white oak logs in the yard right now that I wish would just quarter themselves... :D ;)

[dgdrls]

I've not cut many, and certainly none moved like that.
As the Doctor indicated, you have to see eucalyptus move.

D