Big freebie stack, help a newb ID and tell me what to get!

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?

 

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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

 

Looks kinda chestnut oak ish from here.

I would say it's definitely some flavor of white oak.

 

Looks like plain ol white oak to me. Send some of that rain this way.

 

second pic is red oak variety.

First pic crotch log looks like white oak s well as some the logs in back

 

definitely white oak

 

This stuff reeked like elm, not sure what variety. The only elm I can ID is Siberian

 

Yup.

 

Milled the white oak crotch, smells amazing. Just as I was about to leave they dumped all this walnut! Sheesh keeping me busy here

 

Beautiful walnut log.

 

Very nice indeed.

 

Some sort of elm? Red?

 

Not sure of the variety, but it is elm.

For milling or firewood chunez?

 

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.

 

Lol, have him buck an 18” round and swing away like Dave did at your mini-gtg a while back.

 

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.