Recent Wood Score Post your Pics Thread

[davidwyby]

Wish I had gotten to cut it down so it wasn’t all hacked up but it was a free n easy pickup with the forklift on the way home from work. Big chunks squattin’ the F350.

Some buddies and are are gonna make some pretty stuff. Mesquite and something red.

 

[davidwyby]

@lehman live edge slab how do I keep it from drying to fast and cracking? It’s warm and dry here.

 

[lehman live edge slab]

Are you slabbing it right away? When you cut it best thing to do is stack it with stickers cover in tin and put it out of sunlight as much as possible along with keeping out of wind. Air flow is good but if it’s in strong winds all the time will dry them too fast. Buy some anchor seal to paint ends will reduce the drying speed and cracks on ends. If you don’t have any or can’t at the moment you can paint the ends with latex paint. Not as good but will help, use ratchet straps around pile to help keep them flat and tighten them as the pile dries

 

[davidwyby]

Might be a while before we get to slabbing. Mean time paint and tarps?

 

[lehman live edge slab]

Stacked out of direct sunlight and wind it will be fine for quite some time. Big chunks take a long time to loose moisture in whole pieces with bark on. They will be fine till you mill it

 

[davidwyby]

According to my Seek app, the red stuff is weeping bottlebrush. Had to take some better pics in the light.

 

[lehman live edge slab]

Doesn’t look like weeping bottlebrush gets very big like 25-30ft tall is a big one

 

[lehman live edge slab]

foliage looks like this

 

[davidwyby]

Yeah After looking I think Seek might be off. We don’t remember it being weepy or having the big gnarly red blossoms.

 

[lehman live edge slab]

Maybe some kind of elm or willow? They usually have some red in it and get rather large diameter

 

[Vice]

@lehman live edge slab how do I keep it from drying to fast and cracking? It’s warm and dry here.

Paint the end grain, then as you stack it with sticks between the slabs, you can put saw dust on each slab. It will slow the drying process. We don’t have that problem with lumber here in the north east but I like to do green wood carving of bow”s and spoons, putting the carving in a pile of wood chips, shaving slows things down

 

[davidwyby]

Thanks


Humidity 20%

 

[Hinerman]

Mostly hackberry wit a little red and white oak:

 

[RI Chevy]

Nice big trailer load there.

 

[Xr650jkallen]

Gotta love splitting hackberry.

 

[Vice]

Nice big trailer load there.

I like how low it is! Hate loading into a night truck

 

[RI Chevy]

Yes. Good for the big rounds. You can even roll them onto tail gate and right into trailer.

 

[Xr650jkallen]

We're supposed to have a little cold snap here in TN next week, so I grabbed a few loads of standing dead. Some of it is a little punky, but it'll still burn. I did stumble across some hickory and cherry that's ready to burn. I've got my porch pile in decent shape.

 

[BlackCoffin]

Gave away a lot more than this, kept the large ones for myself though. Clear, fun to work the bigger saws, and hand splits nicely. In-laws had some trees removed, so when I take care of clean up I choose who gets wood!

 

[davidwyby]

My buddy wanted the mesquite for slabbing. The pine I took for cookies. I’ll make some videos of turning root balls in firewood.