Cedar dries fast and is pretty dimensionally stable so IME drying it you shouldn't have any problems. The stuff I dried was milled to 7/8" thick. What thickness are yours chunez?
W We're going to mill that HL soon. I was thinking of ratcheting strap them to prevent any warping. Milling them 7/8" thick. Maybe some thicker as we cant slice thin all the way on the mill. Whats your experience drying HL Jason? I'm thinking its more prone to warping being so dense.
I only kept one piece of that HL, a top cut, and I've left it standing upright to this point. Haven't spoke to the guy I milled it for but he literally put boulders on top of the stacks so I have no doubt it stayed flat. Most of what I mill is 1.5-2" thick and up. The thinner, the easier to keep it flat IME and the more places limbs grew out of a board, the more tendency to go nuts.
What do you make of this log in front? White oak variety? Bark seems off. Too flooded to get a closeup pic today
second pic is red oak variety. First pic crotch log looks like white oak s well as some the logs in back
Milled the white oak crotch, smells amazing. Just as I was about to leave they dumped all this walnut! Sheesh keeping me busy here
Pieces are mostly too short to mill, but I remember my uncle saying he and pops loved red elm and I don’t think I’ve ever seen it before
Word of warning. It can be a bear to "split". Reason I don't touch it. Dead elm will split a lot easier.
Without the corresponding leaves that belonged to that tree, it's kind of difficult to positively ID it beyond elm. There's a lot of variation in that species. Typically red elm has a darker core than American does from what I've seen, but I've gotten American elm with a dark core too: The leaves are bigger on red elm than American, but the real tell is that American leaves are smooth to the touch while red elm leaves have a rough top surface texture to them. Americans typically grow close to water while reds are more of an upland species. Of course if you're only encountering logs in a landfill, it's all kind of moot.