Took down an old Beech.

T.Jeff Veal · Dec 13, 2018

Kevin in Ohio said: ↑

Snow melted off so we could get back at it.

A little delay due to a snow but we finish the rest of the splitting. Top is all done now.

Not a whole lot of wood but it'll keep us warm for a little while. We'll do the hauling next.

Bad news was the whole tree was what I call wavy grain. Laughs at a maul and I bet a Kinetic would be beating itself to death. Makes for a lot of junk and nasty stacking.

If you've never had the "pleasure" of working with this stuff consider yourself lucky. We've had some that you can't even start a wedge and sledge. Before we had my splitter and couldn't move 4 ft rounds, we actually would plunge cut a slot for the wedge to start so we could 1/4 the round to be able to move it.

It's really wild as we've had beech right beside each other that one was like this and the other was all straight grain.

No rhyme or reason on why it grows like this but you can imaging how hard it would be. This piece was NOT a knot, just the way the grain of the wood grew.
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Mag Craft · Dec 13, 2018

Some pretty cool looking wood. I wonder how it would look slabbed and sanded smooth.

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Took down an old Beech.

T.Jeff Veal

Mag Craft