how about a Oklahoma,AR,MO,KS,TX,+IA GTG thread?

[WKEND LUMBERJAK]

It milled pretty okay.

I only ever split elm for the novelty of it's horribleness.

It can be very humbling.

 

[Sawdust Man]

It can be very humbling.

It was very surprising to me when I first moved here......there's nothing remotely like that in the PNW, all the "hardwood" there splits with the greatest of ease.

 

[Hedgerow]

It milled pretty okay.

I only ever split elm for the novelty of it's horribleness.

FYI.. red splits good..

The rest is *f-wording awe full..

 

[Sawdust Man]

FYI.. red splits good..

The rest is *f-wording awe full..

Interesting......that explains why the occasional random piece splits just fine.

 

[Hedgerow]

It can be very humbling.

Like your fast saw in hedge..

That’s how Mitch Webber described cutting hedge..

“Very humbling”…

 

[Hedgerow]

Interesting......that explains why the occasional random piece splits just fine.

Red elm has a normal grain..

American has something resembling a 10 ply tire..
Ask Doug from Iowa about it.

 

[Hedgerow]

Our trees suck here..

 

[Sawdust Man]

Our trees suck here..

Truth....they have a serious bad attitude.

 

[Mastermind]

Trees here try to kill people. I bet they do there too.

 

[Sawdust Man]

Trees here try to kill people. I bet they do there too.

Yes..... it's an eastern tree thing.....the west coast trees are much more civil & well behaved.

 

[Hinerman]

For sure. I ended up noodling all the bigger rounds into firewood. My splitter was just making a mess of what of it would actually bust. I started paying more attention after that.

Matt had an elm tree at one of his GTGs; nothing would split it; no hydro splitter could. Doug had the big super split designed for elm,,,NOPE. You should have seen Doug hitting that piece of elm with the Super split. It looked like a ball of cable when we were done. It wasn’t very big either, 8-10” diameter. Had to noodle the whole tree!

 

[Hinerman]

Yes..... it's an eastern tree thing.....the west coast trees are much more civil & well behaved.

West coast trees scare me; they are gigantic.

 

[Mastermind]

Matt had an elm tree at one of his GTGs; nothing would split it; no hydro splitter could. Doug had the big super split designed for elm,,,NOPE. You should have seen Doug hitting that piece of elm with the Super split. It looked like a ball of cable when we were done. It wasn’t very big either, 8-10” diameter. Had to noodle the whole tree!

That's about how this gum was. If I managed to split a piece, it was mangled too much to stack. So it got the noodle treatment. Hell of a lot of work, but not terrible firewood.

 

[Sawdust Man]

West coast trees scare me; they are gigantic.

They can be intimidating, but in general they behave much better than stuff here does.

Here, everything in the woods just feels malevolent....... like it really does want to kill ya, but also would like to cause you much pain and suffering in the process.
And, other than pine & cedar everything here is hard as rocks..... in the PNW, most stuff saws like butter.

I've never cut anything too enormous, if memory serves me right I believe my biggest was a cedar that was 48" on the stump and 175' tall, I milled about 3.5k bf beveled siding outta it.

 

[Workshop]

Morning everybody.

 

[Mastermind]

Good morning men. We missed our weekly firewood cut Sunday to rain. Then yesterday we had a funeral for my brother in law. I'm looking forward to grinding on some cylinders today to get outta my head.

 

[nbbt]

Good morning folks. 27f/30f and cloudy. Carry on . . .

 

[Only the Tony]

Beautiful morning today. Work almost missed out on me so I could catch up on some water therapy. Guess I will see how well I handle the cold Saturday morning.

 

[Sawdust Man]

Evening people.

Pleasant weather today.

The boys got three walls up on the house this morning, then we went and set forms and smashed rocks for a shed project.....just a little 12'x16' storage building.

 

[Hedgerow]

Evening people.

Pleasant weather today.

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Who’s house?