Seems like this is the month for wood. First I rolled onto one of my job sites and someone had dumped a load of sugar maple blocks in the road during the nite. They had bucked it down into small pieces to hand load. I figured free firewood for the shop so I loaded it back up, took it home and ran it thru the spitter. Imagine my suprise, most every trunk piece came out with some real nice curl. All short blocks...such a waste. This would have been a high dollar log if cut rite. Next, a co-worker calls me and says there is a big walnut down near his place and if I was interested I could have it. Ok, don't need more walnut but whats a little sweat and effort. Again, big surprise! 25 feet of some real nice butternut. Bout 20-24"+ on the base. At least 3 good 8ft saw logs. Running a back road last week and found another nice butternut down after a storm. Not as big but still worth getting a section or 2. AND THEN...my FIL calls and asks if I want some apple. Well.....YEAH! For any of you that source your own wood, found apple rarely turns out well, Too small, dead in center, nails, ect. Usually lucky to get a few decent pieces. Not this time. Got a nice straight 8ft+ section that is about 17" on the base. All the top went to firewood but got some nice crotch pieces to do something with. So ....after a trip to the sawyer and some drying time (read that 2+ years) I should have a ton of nice material to work with.
Some of the maple.
wood shed full of the stuff
apple crotch sections and the saw log..get the butternut loaded on off to the mill
