Red beech, white fungus

[Gnomic]

Hi all,

I just milled a large beech branch that broke off a tree in June. I got 6 boards about 2m long and 30 to 40 cm wide. I'm planning to make a table from it. Some of the grain and colour is fantastic with some deep red areas. I've never seen beech this colour before, is it unusual ?

I've stacked it with stickers for now, but I find that it gets a white mould growing on the grain lines in a few days - see pic. Will this be a problem ? I was considering spraying with dilute bleach, which would kill the fungus but might affect the colour. What do you think ?

 

I milled it with one of those £80 Chinese chainsaws which worked OK but kept breaking down. It took about 20 minutes to run through the centre of the log. I used the ordinary crosscut chain which was more effective than a Granberg chain.

I've got some video if anyone is interested.

[gobbypunk]

Hi talking about chains you should be getting a much better finish on your boards than that its quite rough you should be using a ripping chain as for a saw that breaks down often that would get to me I would save up and get a good saw it will make milling a joy ,I have had fungus like that just treat it with an anti mould stuff hope this helps

Cheers Mark