Big birch

[Conor Wright]

25 minutes ago, TuscanPhil said:

@Rough HewnCan any nice / good / useful etc planks be milled from Silver Birch?  I have a trunk down in my garden (might be rotten by now) that I keep trying to find some time to have a go at milling instead of turning into firewood logs for my consumption.

Spalted birch is really nice, only came across it once. Very fine line between usable and rotten birch. I'd give it a go though, could be well worth it.

[Squaredy]

2 hours ago, TuscanPhil said:

@Rough HewnCan any nice / good / useful etc planks be milled from Silver Birch?  I have a trunk down in my garden (might be rotten by now) that I keep trying to find some time to have a go at milling instead of turning into firewood logs for my consumption.

We don't get Birch logs very often (I think because foresters think it is just firewood) but when we do it never disappoints.  Every one I have milled has been gorgeous and the timber when dry sells really well.

[Rough Hewn]

@Rough HewnCan any nice / good / useful etc planks be milled from Silver Birch?  I have a trunk down in my garden (might be rotten by now) that I keep trying to find some time to have a go at milling instead of turning into firewood logs for my consumption.

It’s a bit plain for my liking, but nice spalted or with figure.
It is a very popular wood however
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[trigger_andy]

Agreed, seems popular but like Cherry I find them both quite boring.

[Squaredy]

1 hour ago, trigger_andy said:

Agreed, seems popular but like Cherry I find them both quite boring.

Try milling a bit one day.  My experience it is always full of pip and surprisingly pretty.

[trigger_andy]

17 minutes ago, Squaredy said:

Try milling a bit one day.  My experience it is always full of pip and surprisingly pretty.

Milled a bit of Cherry. Not overly keen.

 

Got this to mill soon. Will see what that’s like.

[Johnsond]

8 hours ago, Conor Wright said:

Spalted birch is really nice, only came across it once. Very fine line between usable and rotten birch. I'd give it a go though, could be well worth it.

Had a few pieces recently, only milled it to see how it would turn out, pleased I did in the end and had no trouble shifting the boards and planks that came from it. 

[IronMike]

Nice big Birch on a site today.

[AHPP]

Looks rougher and more mature from the bark than the OP one. Good inside?

[Hodge]

On 06/10/2021 at 19:55, Dan Maynard said:

I've measured one with a 461, was about one bar length.

Tree was in a conservation area, this one was all over neighbours house so they let us fell it, it's brother in the garden ended up with TPO which I think is unusual for birch.

Not unusual at all mate, TPO's are not species specific, I've seen some scabby old cypress covered by a TPO, they literally were the worst looking trees ever.....yet in another part of the garden their was a mature Douglas Fir that was not TPO'd yet it was the nicer tree by far...