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a few logs today

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  1. bigfrank

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    I had these and a few more eucalyptus logs on the ground at a friend's house I have been cutting at. Had to run down to help another friend that is cutting a field at the same place, so I decided to make a wood trip out of it. Will get this stuff home and get it CSS when I have more time.
     

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    That surely is some pretty wood grain.
     
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    Wow, no kidding about that! Bigfrank, will the wood keep that color for long? Sure is pretty!
     
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    Beautiful wood
     
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    It lightens

    Some, but it takes awhile
     
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    I’m wondering if you cut cookies of that and let it dry out of the sun, sanded them, clear varnish coats might bring out the color more...cool stuff.
     
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    It would, but it seems to end crack quite a bit.
     
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    By west coast standards that's some serious BTUs. Not to mention very little limbing, Wish I could lay my hands on some without spending $100/cord on fuel.
     
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    Actually, there is a ton of slashbon those trees. I think the only firewood better that we have here is Live Oak, which is near the top of the burn chart for BTU's.
     
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    I heard from wood turners that cutting out the pith helps keep this from happening but the slower the drying the better likely...
     
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