Snagged this today. Planks are 4 x 36" about 5/8" thick. Very dense / heavy. Had oxidized to a nice brown but was tan when I ran a plane over it.
I took a look over at hobbithouse and it sort of seemed like acacia, but the end grain did not look right.
Any thoughts?
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Tore down an old barn up here in the mountains and resawed the beams that were in it but I am not sure what species this is. It is relatively soft. The barn was approx. 80 years old. Any ideas?:dontknow::help:
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I snagged a few of what i thought were redwood posts from the front porch of a 1940s ranch house i remodeled a few years ago. Where I'm confused is in the weight of these peices. I sanded/planed/ripped them down from a 4x4'ish post that they were into about an equivalent to a 2x4 now. The...
Growing in my front yard. It's leaves are like those of a black walnut tree; however it's bark is smooth. I've tried some of the internet ID keys with mixed results. Never had any sort of nut on it. It's 60+ feet, peppers the yard with root suckers, and is flowering right now - yellow-green...
Going out to mark a bunch of maple this weekend on a 10 acre mature woodlot that's going to be clear cut starting in the next few weeks, I think it's to make room for some kind supper market chain store. I guess most that pretty forest will become black top :crybaby2:
I was out there a few...