So, when I went and got a load of sawlogs Thursday. I fell a couple trees for my friend that has the timber sale. He was tired and wanted to see how my new 572 cut. Anyway. One of the trees had that orange heart wood that some white spruce get. . It is a type of decay. I'm wondering how it would look for some non structural lumber like wainscoting ? Anyone ever seen or used it for that. Its either mill it or take it for firewood. Sorry, no pics.
Just saw this on my Fakebook feed this morning. If it has lots of knots from limbs, I don't think it would make great finish wood.
I think I'll bring them home and roll one on the mill. Maybe just split it in half and have a look at it. My friend that I get the logs from needs to build a chicken coop and was thinking of using slabs for the exterior siding. Maybe live edgeing them like this guy did would work well for that. Put the Thompson's Water Seal on them. Maybe do a board and board instead of a board and batten. ? Might look pretty good. ?
I personally like wood with character, but not everyone does. I'd open one up like you say & use your judgement as per you personal taste. I think it would be pretty cool.
For things like exterior verticle siding. Or nesting boxes and things. It should work OK . on a chicken house. It all depends on how sound it is. With a good coat of Thompson's Water Seal. Every couple years. It should work. A chicken house is kindof a chicken house. Its surprising how much lumber it takes to build a building.
Sounds cool. Cut it open and post some pics. Always neat to see when cut. Since my first milling experience with buzz-saw's mill this year i look at logs as boards and not firewood now! BTW no experience with spruce other than one we milled that i turned into strapping/utility wood.
Not the best pictures, but did it look anything like this? Some of the boards picture of the wall above look like and these below are examples of root rot. It looks good on a mill unless it’s advanced to far. Owl
Didn't look exactly like that. It's a lightish orange with white flecks in it. Often times it has very little structural integrity to it. And it's a prelude to the tree becoming hollow.
The specks are the fungus, the loose integrity is the result. I’m guessing something like this, or similar, this is pretty advanced. There’s several varieties of the disease. Lots more google pictures if anyone is interested. A few times they wanted samples, stump branding, stump counting, stump painting all sorts of crap. Between this and beetles a stand doesn’t hold much hope, if both infest at the same time ha g in to your hat it will destroy the surrounding area very fast. Owl
Yup. That's it. The butt of the particular tree in question was real soft like the pic. 20+' up the tree it got Sounder . But was still orange. One thing nice about a sawmill tho. It's kindor a precision log splitter
