Thought I'd start this thread to help all the hoarders with questions. There are quite a few species I don't have here so feel free to post pics from your neck of the woods. I'll have more after the rain stops and wood dries out for accurate pics. These will be top to bottom. Mature bark, limb wood and interior splits.
I think this is some of what you want. If so I may post some more later. Red oak. Some dead elm (and this could be split easily with a maul or even an axe). White ash. White oak. (That's a 290 with a 16" bar.)
I have a bunch in stacks and piles but raining today. Several different oaks and others. Maybe even some highly valuable black walnut.
I for one formally request that a mod place all of Steves pics posts in a row so they are easy to find. This thread could even be a sticky.
Well....what would really be cool, is in the existing BRUCE chart, have a link to visuals of each wood type. New and mature bark. End grain and splits. Leaves and any nuts or berries. Now that would be something really useful, imo. Unless it exists elsewhere on a different site.
Great idea. I like the way you did this. Always thought the resource section should have something like this. Ill add some from recent scores. Wont be able to do it like you did though. First pic white oak Silver maple Tulip (yellow) poplar Pignut hickory
When it gets to that stage, it actually splits really well. It’s bordering on the edge of being a little bit mealy, not quite punky. It’s still hard, but there’s no real wood grain structure left if that makes any sense
This wood (pun intended ) get kind of wordy and not really organized. It's all random. Most of us can use Google and search for pics or even there are great sites out there from many of the land grant universities. I know UGA has a great site. I think some of the Appalachian and norther schools do to. I think UW Madison has some resources. I'll throw Tennessee out there as well. I think they may or is it west Virginia? Maybe VT? I know "little old Clemson " didn't we used other universities sites when I was in school and the professors did as well in class. USFS has some excellent stuff as well. I combed tech publications when in grad school. Sent from my moto g(7) using Tapatalk
I think I follow. I had some oak limbs that were late on being cut, waited a year on them and then they got pretty worm eaten. Not super rotting at all but I think I get the term mealy though. Luckily not all were like this but had I got to them earlier, they may be in better shape. Had less time on my hands then... in a way it kinda made me think about how some of the limbs could have used a chop saw but bigger, I’m not sure exactly what the saw is called but the blade spins freely,( belt driven?) no safety equipment around it and works best cutting limbs not much bigger than average arms width or so? I saw one of these for sale but had already been sold.
You’re probably thinking of a buzz saw. They were usually large and mounted to the back of a farm tractor. They used to be quite a bit more popular around here than they are now
Yes, this one had its own table stand. Looked pretty sturdy and heavy. I may be on the lookout for one if branches make a come back. It seemed more feasible as controlling limbs like that with a chainsaw would make them fly around a bit more in a saw horse. Tend to tip out if the butt is heavy..yikes. Need an emoji for that kinda thing..whew. sorry farmer steve, just free thinking here without inputs to your thread topic.
Yep Fatboy your talking about a buzz saw. Pretty dangerous looking from what I understand, great for cutting up slabs and small diameter wood. Sent from my moto g(7) using Tapatalk
The buzz saws can be dangerous. We used one powered by a belt pulley off the tractor till dad bought one powered by a shaft to the pto. He had hauled limb wood for years and had a pile the size of a mobile home. Mostly locust.
