Wasn't a bad price at all for the history. Due to the age alone (ignoring the fact it is so soft) I would personally hesitate to call it junk.
Now what came of the huge walnut slab?
Which one?
Wasn't a bad price at all for the history. Due to the age alone (ignoring the fact it is so soft) I would personally hesitate to call it junk.
Now what came of the huge walnut slab?
This is my first attempt at posting pictures in this forum, so bear with me. Here's a picture of a field pine I felled a couple of years ago on our property. Small end 32" on the big log; recovered 6 12' logs. The tree died because of drought. Coincidently, the ring count also gave a birth year of 1835. For some reason this tree was left standing throughout successive clearcuts. Two more trees of equal size are still alive on our property; both are clear without branching for 50 feet. I'm waiting for another drought or hurricane to take them down.
Here are two more fun pictures. Here's a big Sycamore I took down 2 years ago. It died because its roots were damaged when a land conservation group rerouted a stream nearby, cutting off its water supply. It measured 5 and 1/2 feet in diameter at breast height. Solid as a rock. Sycamore rarely gets this big because it usually rots at the base and dies. This tree was so big I had to eighth the logs rather then quartering them. I recovered 1500 bdft. of 20" wide quartered (actually eighth) sycamore boards from the 4 main logs.
My FIL was born in 1922 and he grew up in western NY. When he was a boy he had an older gent for a neighbor who told him that it was not uncommon to see pine trees that scaled 3' at 90 in the air floating down the Erie Canal to a mill. I cannot imagine what they looked like as a standing forest - now that is something I wish I had the privilege to have witnessed.
Hope you have the best of luck with the yield and with the seasoning ...