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What kind of sorcery is this?

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  1. Eric Wanderweg

    Eric Wanderweg

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    I’ve been pulling from a mixed pile of elm, sugar and red maple and found this maple skinny. Apparently after 2 years in the stack cocoon it morphed into a cherry or mulberry ;) It’s red only on the one side. I’ll add this to the growing list of weird things that surprises me less and less each year.

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    It’s an omen our forefathers would sing of:

    Red log at night, metal your saw shall bite,
    Red log in morn, score free hawthorn.
     
  4. Eric Wanderweg

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    :rofl: :lol:
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    I have a hawthorn you are welcome to in my yard. It lost 1 trunk out of 3 a few weeks back and I need to get it cut it up.
    Feel free to take it all though.
     
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    Split it and see how deep it goes.
     
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    Ive had a few pieces of red maple, white oak, and hickory do this I have no clue what causes it maybe a fungus or bacteria?
     
  9. Eric Wanderweg

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    I’ll buy that theory, it’s just strange how it only showed up on that one side of that one piece.
     
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    Sometimes the end of my wood turns that color! :rofl: :lol: Not that often anymore at my age!
     
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    :picard: :zip:
     
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    Kinda reminds me of some cherry in one of my stacks. Pic from Sept 2020 IMG_3247.JPG
     
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    There’s some cream you can use for that…just ask Prince Harry!
     
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    For real?

    What a case! Just can't stay out of the media's focus.....
     
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    I thought that was Prince Albert?

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  17. Eric Wanderweg

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    Is that your “one cord nugget bin”? Lots of nice wood in that stack. I spy… honey locust, black locust, cherry, maple, and mulberry :thumbs:
     
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    Yup. Starting filling Summer 2020. Might sell this Winter, but if not ive got a guy next year. The multi year HL drying made me wait. Think there's also sugar maple and a mystree wood in there too. I cant recall if i showed you some of it? Yard Tree ID

    Whats your experience with HL drying time?
     
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    Oh yeah, that’s the one I’m almost positive is either a Chinese or hybrid chestnut.

    I don’t know too much about Honeylocust drying time firsthand. I’ve heard 3 years on here. Other than some skinny limb wood I got this summer, the only other HL was some I got from you in November 2021. It’s still in my stacks top covered. I wasn’t planning on trying it out until at least next winter.
     
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    Did i give you a split or two of it? When i sell it ill be sure to put a few aside if not. Study the stack and the yellowish/green ones are that.