Since the windy weather around here (La Plata, MD )I’ve got unintended logs to harvest. Such as the 20 inch river birch on my drive. It has a pretty brown heart wood. Is this a good species to turn into lumber? I’ve got a nice little 16 inch black cherry that should make some nice boards. How do I harvest the root. I understand that the root produces some very pretty wood. I’ve already got a walnut root and I discovered that rocks are sometimes hidden in the wood. I don’t like filing chisel point chains well enough to sic the stihl on it.

One tree down truly saddens me. It is a pin oak close to four ft in diameter and was a beautiful specimin that held pride of place. Don’t think I could get that log in my pick up. I will probbly chain saw sculpt some Japanese style garden benches.

There are a lot of nice logs being cut into firewood lenths instead of going to the mill. The wood will sit and rot with the stack of firewood from the last time a tree came down. Sigh.

There’s a nice black locust log down the road that I’m lusting for. A locust log suitable for the saw mill is kinda rare and the Amish sawyers mostly turn them into fence posts.
BJ