Cedar Scrounge for the Mill.

Spotted this a few weeks back. Route i take all the time. Cut down and left as is for a new utility pole and guy wire. Couple friends of mine are linemen for the neighboring town. Called to inquire and got the okay. Town land open space.
Used the top handle to clear my way through the masses of prickers and vines to clean em up. Freed up a small ash they felled too. Bucked and took to storage. Have to figure out what lengths for milling and may need buzz-saws help loading. The cedar stump was 18" diameter. The cedar remnants will be made into kindling.
Of course metal lurking. Went to clear around the cedar stump to cut it and caught some barbed wire, luckily not bad. 201's tag teamed the cut.
Ill post more pics when i get the cedar.

 

Nice score buZZsaw BRAD. Mills around here want 8'4" logs for milling.

 

From my very limited experience with cedar, it's heavy. Nice score on the ash too, no sense in letting either of them go to waste.

 

Big Cedar at 18”!

 

Yeah buddy!
Do you want to meet up tomorrow afternoon and load it on the trailer. Supposed to be pretty nice out.
Shoot me a PM and let me know what you are thinking.

 

buzz-saw's mill can take 10' + length, but for us to load it has to be done manually. Then we're thinking about what the end use will be so are long lengths necessary.

 

Very light when dry. This is the same cedar (actually a juniper) used for cedar closets/chests etc. I normally would ignore it but since i have miller access and decent ill now take it. The slab wood and remnants will become kindling.

 

Its about as big as ive seen for it around here. I see chunks at the dump about the same size. Occasionally a yard tree thats bigger. Not sure of other varieties that grow wild around here. This one the only im familiar with.

 

X2. About 18" is the largest I've ever come across. They're extremely slow growing and shade-intolerant like black locust is. I think they were overharvested years ago, like a lot of utilitarian trees. You can kind of decipher the history of a patch of woods if you find cedars (living or dead) there. If they're present, it means at one point it was open land; either clear cut or abandoned farmland. That tree is going to make some serious lumber

 

We're going to need smell-o-vision when you open it up!

 

I am jealous of that one for sure!

I have plenty of northern white cedar, and I ran one chunk of Western Red (was a chunk of utility pole).

I am not sure I will ever get to run the red "smell good" stuff on my mill

 

One of my BL (dead) honey holes is right around the corner from there. Barbed wire on a tree next to the road there as well. Im thinking it was open farmland as there are numerous "skeleton" cedars laying on the ground. Its an odd place for the BL too. Most of them are 12" or less and slowing dying off. Choked from sunlight.

 

Do you need an outdoor bar?

 

I was sniffing pieces as i cut yesterday! I grabbed the kindling stock today and only the millable wood left. Him and i grabbing mill logs late tomorrow.

 

The stump has ant damage and internal rot and it goes a few feet up that one trunk. Dont know on other as its still attached to the rootball. Always fun to slice it up.

 

I wish it would hold its original color and not fade. How does it look after a long time of weather exposure Joe?

 

Mill it long. You can always cut shorter afterwards.

 

I was torn as to what lengths to cut them so left as is yesterday. With a smaller tree it may mill better in sections with similar diameter.
Howve you been GrJfer? Your absence has been noticed? Nice to see you here again.

 

Glad to be back on here. 2021 wasn't the best year, but that's a story for another time.

 

It’ll grey right up outside. I hear ya. Haven’t found a way to keep that fresh color. Those boards had been sticked and stacked in my basement
for twenty years before I made that.