Among the firs visible early spring blooms. fruit is very small and close to the blossom stem. When picking them, grab at the top and pull down stripping them off the stem.
I am far too clumsy to even consider swinging a hammer or throwing a saw within ten yards of this beautiful work bench!
Thanks for the compliment! That's all lumber from my own property. There's about a face cord of firewood from the tops, and I even saved everything down to about 1" for the smoker. But everything smaller than that is gone. Did a load of red pine too: I got a lot of the maple blow downs hauled out this weekend too. Bunch of firewood from all of that.
Choke cherry was always a problem as it liked to grow in the fence rows around pasture and was toxic to cattle as soon as the leaves begin to wilt. We were always on the look-out for blow-downs and went out patrolling fence lines after every storm.
Nice tree, nice stump too. Hate it when you see someone lose lumber when they mess up the cuts and barber chair it or pull the heartwood etc. well done sir
What's your cut list look like? I would see what the sawer thinks about quarter sawing that, at least the butt end. Might be a touch small for 1/4 sawing but would yeild some high quality stuff. Then again it's so straight why bother How many bdft you guys gonna do? Looks like you will have quite the operation going when the sawer shows up!
I took an inventory tonight of the nicest logs I have hauled out so far, to get an idea of how much bdft we are talking about. I did need to get a rough estimate to figure out how to proceed from here. I used the Doyle scale and rounded all dimensions down. I understand the wood mizers and other band mills can beat that scale handily, especially at the small end of the scale. Cherry 76, 208 Ash 40, 50 Maple 196, 30, 32, 38, 135, 18, 30, 83, 21, 24, Pine 38, 38, 38, 38, 208, 88, 18, 32, 50, 24, 40, 32, 32, 32, 45, 76 The numbers are lower than I was thinking, but there's still more to haul out. Some of the biggest maples are still in the woods, and I didn't count any of the logs from the monster yard tree. There's lots more pine too. You got me thinking on the cherry. I just might have him go full on QS for one of the logs. I'd like to get mostly 4/4 and 8/4 stock, and perhaps a few 16/4 pieces. We'll probably do the maple and ash the same way. Most of the pine will be dimensional, save a few really nice ones that look to have some heart pine coloring.
Sounds awesome! That sounds like some good wood! The dimensional pine will go like clockwork. All the nicer stuff always makes me indicisive Can't wait to see pics of the action!
Yes. And your inquiry got me curious and I did some Googling on the subject. Apparently it's not just wilted leaves that are toxic, the fresh ones were just as if not more dangerous according to this report. Of course, the internet wasn't in my pocket back when I was a kid on the farm, I was just going by knowledge handed down. FDA Poisonous Plant Database
