Today's milling

[Big Beech]

Two Yew trunks. These have been left laying in a customers wood for 10years the first picture and 13 years the second.

loss of sapwood however the heart wood was exceptionally hard going and very dusty. Minor decay in the centre board but overall excellent 👌 

mean these on the F2 and the latter at 20” was at maximum width. The smaller trunk came in around 16”

Edited April 7, 2022 by Big Beech

[Stihl123]

Bit of yew yesterday 

2.8 long and widest about 700

55mm thick

Anyone who has a very rough idea value wise please let me know 👍

[GWYNFIL]

Knew i should of bought the 130.

[Big Beech]

On 10/04/2022 at 08:07, Stihl123 said:

Bit of yew yesterday 

2.8 long and widest about 700

55mm thick

Anyone who has a very rough idea value wise please let me know 👍

Seen someone selling boards similar to mine in size KD for £45 mine are more expensive than that green and so should yours. Average price I’ve seen Yew is £45 a cubic ft

[AndyO]

Recently got contacted about buying this Sweet Chestnut stem and went to have a look today. I was interested as we don’t have much Sweet Chestnut in this neck of the woods…
It’s 5.5m long and about 1m at the stump.
There’s a few things putting me off:
-looks like some shake visible which seems to go all the way up.
-some staining from metal further up as well as some rot (presumably why it was felled?)
-access is terrible…

My head says walk away but my heart wants to slab a large, historic, local tree as there’s definitely a few nice burrs in it.

I welcome your thoughts [emoji106]

[AndyO]

[AndyO]

 

Apologies for the terrible photos!

[Big Beech]

24 minutes ago, AndyO said:

 

Apologies for the terrible photos!

Lovely stuff, minimal shake like that you’ll find in all timbers. Even ring shake not to bad if making table tops.

Rot not an issue in this day and age. Very easy to work and stable.

these where air dried for a year and a half to 18% and I kilned them to 6-10%.

see my other posts

Edited April 12, 2022 by Big Beech

[openspaceman]

32 minutes ago, AndyO said:

Recently got contacted about buying this Sweet Chestnut stem and went to have a look today. I was interested as we don’t have much Sweet Chestnut in this neck of the woods…
It’s 5.5m long and about 1m at the stump.
There’s a few things putting me off:
-looks like some shake visible which seems to go all the way up.
-some staining from metal further up as well as some rot (presumably why it was felled?)
-access is terrible…

My head says walk away but my heart wants to slab a large, historic, local tree as there’s definitely a few nice burrs in it.

I welcome your thoughts

Ring shake in old chestnut not at all unusual, often  associated with spiral grain to make the boards somewhat suspect.

 

Sometimes the ring shake is conical and will sound out in a metre or so, we would try and sound it out and cut a disc out of the sounded end then break it  and look for greying in the split grain which indicated the shake was still present.

[GWYNFIL]

wouldnt put me off still get boards out of it. 300 mm12" +  even the resin boys would have it in slabs character lol. if the price was right.