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Butternut

Discussion in 'The Sawyer Room' started by Ron Goedde, Dec 30, 2022.

  1. Ron Goedde

    Ron Goedde

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    We had a nice butternut tree go down in June, 2022. There were no limbs on the tree for the first 35 feet. I was able to get four logs out of the tree. The top log was questionable ... but it did produce some nice wood to try epoxy on. In the end the Butternut produced about 600 board feet of quality lumber.
     

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    Wow Ron! Great call on milling it. :thumbs:
     
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    That is some great looking lumber!!!!!
     
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    I've never seen butternut wood before. That's some nice stuff!!
     
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    Made some beautiful boards. Always cool to see it sliced open.
     
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    All of the butternut trees in our area died off or was hit by lightning.
     
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    Nice boards. You never know whats inside. That to me is half the fun.
    Thanks for posting.
     
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    Beautiful wood! Thanks for sharing with us. What disease attacked the Butternut trees, does anyone know? As far as I am aware there are none this far south.
     
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