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Evening all, bought in 20ton fresh felled Beech/sycamore/elm/Ash. Bit quiet at the moment so thought I'd get some cut & split so hopefully speed up drying in the hope some might be ready to go after Xmas. But got of a shock, any ideas what this got be ?? Run right through middle of most of it & really wet. Don't know if it will dry out or rot !!

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agreed.

 

 

the timber trade call it redheart and it is not used for milling into lumber for your classic prime white beech. quite sad really as i shudder to think how much perfectly good beech has been wasted over the decades for not being the right colour.

 

Very little, it had other uses .

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The tree was damaged, probably by fire, the bark was removed allowing some pathogen in, the tree has compartmentalised the infection, given time the stained area would have rotted out.

 

You can see the trees reaction to the damage with extra timber creating the "C' shaped rings. Its perfectly good fire wood.

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Thanks for replies, was getting a panic on !! In some bits the very centre about the size of a finger nail has gone pithy & there's a green line on the edge of the dark wood with the white on some bad bits , thought perhaps it was diseased & would just rot rather than drying out, it is very wet almost oozing in the centre but then it was only felled 2 weeks ago. Splitting it into ventilated bags which will stored outside so hopefully a good summer & Autumn with plenty wind should dry it out !

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