Bought some Beech

[se7enthdevil]

that's a new one on me... i've only heard redheart till now. can see why though as it's brown once kilned.

[Timber Man]

Its brown anyway isn't it?

Redheart is certainly not a UK term, and I suspect it is partly used as sales pitch for what would be considered second grade timber.

Coloured beech never got wasted, a certain amount still ended up in the chair market. The rest for textile bobbins, clog soles, upholstery frames, pallet block, mining timber.etc etc.

[se7enthdevil]

when wet it is usually a reddish pink.

 

it may not show it in this picture but it is a red colour with hints of peach and pink that oxidises to brown.

 

whitmores timber just call it CND (colour no defect) but chanel timber refer to it

as red kern.

 

 

either way it's just not prime white beech which is usually what sawmills want.

 

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[Timber Man]

It depends what the sawmills want it for as to whether they want it or not,.. I am an ex sawmill hardwood buyer/ merchant.

[wills-mill]

Red kern sounded to me like a German technical term. So much immaculate Beech comes over from the Continent.

 

One Google search and voila!

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=rotkern+bei+der+buche&espv=2&biw=1366&bih=705&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjHprjGl6rMAhVsIMAKHeLiDq0Q_AUICCgD

 

I can see the parallel with Olive Ash definitely. Some end users wouldn't be keen and it might not be the most solid of timber a few decades down the line....

 

Does anyone have experience of steam bending Olive Ash, would the heart be more or less bendy?

[se7enthdevil]

It depends what the sawmills want it for as to whether they want it or not,.. I am an ex sawmill hardwood buyer/ merchant.

 

sadly most of the mills i spoke to did not want to know about it and a few even said that our english beech was pants compared to the continental stuff.

 

for straightness on the whole i might agree but in my opinion our is much harder which is better for my skittles.

 

i ended up having to get people to mill me large beech trees to my specs as no lumber yard was prepared to even entertain the sizes i need for my skittles.

 

in the end i got that near 5' beech milled and took the whole 130ft3.

[Timber Man]

The tree in the picture is only second quality at best. The big knots towards the top of the tree only lend themselves to larger dimensional sawing.

If you are talking 130 hoppus its only a quarter of a load, unless its something special the cost of logistics just don't make it worthwhile.

[mickdundee]

I had some beech last year that looked just like that. It dried perfect and burned without a problem. There's a post somewhere with a couple of pics I think

 

 

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[Hoss]

Good to hear Mick.

[Marko1982]

Good for firewood or what would we consider III class (black tag) before production. c/d class could come out of it for sawmill unedged/edged. There is a buyer for everything...