Do you ...

[wavefreak]

drive down the road looking at trees thinking - "oooooo - that one would be real nice to mill ...."

I better be careful or I'll run right into one of them.

 

[OhioGregg]

Yep! All the time. Especially when I see a nice walnut!

Gregg,

 

[BIG JAKE]

Yep! We went hiking for fathers day and I found myself looking around for trees to mill the whole time.

 

[BobL]

Yep - but I still reckon in the right situation big aussie hardwoods look their best upright and making lotsa baby trees

 

[deeker]

You guys are sick, sick and wrong I say.

















Thinking of trees that way.
















Unless they might look good on my sawmill.



Looking at a couple of nice, and I mean nice red cedars.............

 

[smithie55]

Yep,

 

[Brmorgan]

Yep, if I'm not looking for logs to mill, I'm looking for good subjects for a photo.

 

[hazard]

The family went down to a small state park last week. I was seeing 30" white oaks everywhere. New park for me. I kept on saying holy crap and crap everytime I saw a new tree.

Chris

 

[rkwelp]

Yep, got my eye on a nice osage orange, and huge sycamore on my brother in laws's property right now.

 

[wavefreak]

So this is a permanent affliction then. I'll let my wife know.

 

[the westspartan]

It is hard not to look at trees like that, but I try hard to only take down standing dead or trees that someone is already looking to take down. The really bad part is that, when I heard that the EAB was making its way into New York State, a little part of me thought "well I guess I will be milling a lot of ash!"
But I agree with Bobl, I would much rather see them standing and healthy, than getting milled up. That being said, there is a big maple at my neighbor's place that I have been drooling over. It's about 40" DBH and straight as arrow with almost no taper for about 25'! It is just nice to look at and think about.

 

[wavefreak]

It is hard not to look at trees like that, but I try hard to only take down standing dead or trees that someone is already looking to take down. The really bad part is that, when I heard that the EAB was making its way into New York State, a little part of me thought "well I guess I will be milling a lot of ash!"
But I agree with Bobl, I would much rather see them standing and healthy, than getting milled up. That being said, there is a big maple at my neighbor's place that I have been drooling over. It's about 40" DBH and straight as arrow with almost no taper for about 25'! It is just nice to look at and think about.

Yeah. A big healthy tree is something to look at. There is this red maple near my work that I swear is 100ft across and 60 feet high. I'm lusting after the ones that should be taken down before they hurt somebody.

 

[Brmorgan]

So this is a permanent affliction then. I'll let my wife know.

Better check in with your health insurance too, it might qualify as a pre-existing condition.:monkey:

 

[oldsaw]

Hah!!! Not only do I judge every tree for "millability", I mentally fall them where they stand before I mentally mill them. It's a disease.

Mark

 

[deeker]

So this is a permanent affliction then. I'll let my wife know.

Don't blame us.

 

[olyman]

Don't blame us.

and if he aint got it--cad aint far behind!!!!!!!!!!

 

[LAndrews]

Argh. Saw a log laying there and just had to toss it in the trunk and bring it home. It got bad quick... Anybody got an idea what this might be? It looked like some sort of willow with the slender leaves.

 

[redprospector]

drive down the road looking at trees thinking - "oooooo - that one would be real nice to mill ...."

I better be careful or I'll run right into one of them.

Dosen't everyone?
I thought it was normal, and now you guy's are trying to tell me I'm sick.

Andy

 

[lumberjackchef]

Argh. Saw a log laying there and just had to toss it in the trunk and bring it home.

Common case of L.A.D.( Log Acquisition Disorder )

Log-: a usually bulky piece or length of a cut or fallen tree; especially : a length of a tree trunk ready for sawing and over six feet (1.8 meters) long

Acquisition-: to get as one's own: a : to come into possession or control of often by unspecified means

Disorder-An ailment that affects the function of mind or body: To disturb the normal physical or mental health of; derange.


You know you got it when your kids say "Dad, all you ever do is look at trees" and your backyard is half full of logs that you rescued from becoming firewood and blow downs from storms!

 

[billstuewe]

Hah!!! Not only do I judge every tree for "millability", I mentally fall them where they stand before I mentally mill them. It's a disease.

Mark

So far the only really honest one that has entered here--I am just like that--