can you tell these guys enjoy the competition?

[Jswanson]

I hardly have any stock saws left, they are too much like work
Racing is fun, pure adrenalin for that (hopefully) short few seconds in the wood.
Lots of guys with all kinds of ideas as to what makes power and what makes speed show up and then all the guessing stops and the racing starts
When all the silly bickering and stupid wang measuring goes away a bunch of guys can get together and have a great time.
Now I just need to find a place where i can buy 100 acres of nice Tulip poplar next door to a large bed and breakfast and an Amish mill so i can have GTG every couple weeks all year long

How much fluffing time is allowed before wang measuring?

 

[Redfin]

How much fluffing time is allowed before wang measuring?

Deeter, is that you?

 

[Al Smith]

I only assume Cliff H put those hotties together ? He's a master at it --enough said .

 

[Definitive Dave]

Hey Al, I hope i get to meet you one day, according to all reports you are a great guy
Cliff built some of them, but certainly not all of the fast saws that ran that day, I bet at least a half dozen builders had competitive saws.
He invited up to his place this summer and hopefully I will get a change to go to a few of the northern Michigan races as well as taking him up on his invitation to visit.
I gotta tell you the sheer joy on the faces of Phil and Jason when their names are called off to compete against each other is just infectious, they are total intensity at the cant and then buddy-buddy a minute later.
Dave

 

[MustangMike]

FYI, Tulip is neither Tulip nor Poplar, it is really a Magnolia tree. Pretty flowers if you cut one down in the Spring!

Mostly what is sold (in lumber stores) as poplar is Tulip (Magnolia).

I see lots of them in the woods now, don't remember them being so prolific in the past.

 

[Deets066]

Deeter, is that you?

 

[Definitive Dave]

FYI, Tulip is neither Tulip nor Poplar, it is really a Magnolia tree. Pretty flowers if you cut one down in the Spring!

Mostly what is sold (in lumber stores) as poplar is Tulip (Magnolia).

I see lots of them in the woods now, don't remember them being so prolific in the past.

this is the raw load of "tulip poplar" they started the competition with at Chardon this year.
one of the cants didn't get used at all, it was beautiful and had all kinds of variegated long purple streaks in it, the guys said it would be full of minerals and damage the chains

Here in Ohio we tend to see Poplar, Aspen and Cottonwood. At Huskihl's place and EJs in Michigan we saw Poppal which is different from Poplar entirely. The Stihl Timbersports tour here in the USA uses Ohio grown and harvested White Pine shaved rounds. Out in Missouri we ran in Pine (and Oak and Hedge, F' you Matt . Down in Florida, John Reilly cuts in Slash Pine which is alot harder than our northern species.

At competitions they want clean, uniform wood with as few knots as possible, from trees without any wicked twists. Cottonwood is usually frowned upon because it grows fastest near waterways where it picks up a lot of minerals and sand that are embedded in the meat of the tree and ruin chains. Cottonwoods that grow in a soil field where moist but away from running water are very choice and hold moisture for a long time, making great test logs without the sand and crap.

 

[Cut4fun]

Got some monster (for Ohio) tulip poplar that needs dropped on my southern land Dave. In the hills.

http://forestry.ohiodnr.gov/tuliptree

 

[Definitive Dave]

one tree or enough to make a trip with a trailer worthwhile ?

hmmm it does sound a little like work though....

 

[Cut4fun]

one tree or enough to make a trip with a trailer worthwhile ?

hmmm it does sound a little like work though....

Yep been putting it off myself. = Real work not like working on saws all day at all.