Wood score...

[Kirkll]

 I know a guy not far from me that's had small saw mills for years. His dad had a mill when he was growing up too.... After many years things start piling up and collecting dust. Two years ago i spotted a couple pallets of mixed hardwood he had setting in the back of his wood shed and asked him what he wanted for the whole stack? He said he'd think about it, and i never heard back from him...

The other day i was over there and asked him if he'd like to get rid of those old wood piles again. He said yes.. They have been setting there for 15 years. So i made him an offer and he took it...

So today i hauled it back to my shop it completely filled a 6' X 8' trailer....All the long stuff is Black Walnut, there's, figured Maple, Ash, a bit of Cherry , and even some myrtle wood... Now i need to find room in my shop for it .  Vary good score!   Bone dry and in real nice shape for air dried wood.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/yGXNdEo7wvMu51Ea7

[Jon Lipovac]

Very nice!!!!!

[Pat B]

Nice haul, Kirk.  Beautiful wood.

[Bryan Adolphe]

   yes good score for sure !

[Stagmitis]

Nice!!!! What’s the Myrtle look like? One of my faves

[Kirkll]

I went though about half of it so far yesterday and haven’t gotten to the Myrtle wood yet. No hurry with this nice warm weather. But… it’s been milled into 3/4”  T&G and stacked towards the bottom of the pallet. I’ll get a look at it today.

I got into one section of maple yesterday that had already been run through a planer and sized to 3/4”. But… this is a lot heavier, and seems more dense than our western maple typically runs. The color looks the same, but the grain is a bit different. now I’m uncertain whether it’s actually maple or not. Ash has a heavier grain, and it doesn’t look like it, but in May in fact be ash.

What amazed me was how flat those really wide black walnut slabs were. There are about 3-4 of those almost 2’ wide ruff sawn to 1” thickness with no cup to them at all. If I was a furniture builder, these have table top written all over them.

So far it’s all been nice quality hardwood with very little splits or cracks. I figured there would be a bit of Doug Fir mixed in too, but only found one short piece. Most of it is 1” thick, but there is a bunch of 8/4 walnut and even some 3x3 posts about 8’ long.   Kinda fun sorting through this goodie pile.   Kirk

[Mad Max]

nice score 

[Kirkll]

I few more pics of some of this wood. The Myrtle wood has some wild grain in some of it, and I found a drop dead gorgeous piece of lace maple full of figure.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/KpEqxBSare9QfwqQ8

The walnut is hard to get decent photos of until it’s milled, but there will be some prime riser stock. My customers are going to be jazzed! 

[Stagmitis]

I remember years ago when you cut that maple down in your yard!

[Kirkll]

Yup… I did some English walnut trees myself, and got very little nice stock for my efforts. I had bugs that killed those trees,and a lot of the wood was just firewood.

I had much better luck milling curly maple. Taking the time to go have it planed to 8/4  S2S form before stacking it up to dry was well worth the cost. I still have quite a bit of that material that is 12 years old with some wild grain to it. I sure wish it was a more robust riser material….lts beautiful, but needs reinforcements to use it. I’ve done quite a few risers using I beams and footings with it that have held up well…. Myrtle wood is in the same class as far as being structurally sound. Beautiful, but needs reinforcement.

Kirk