Fred Wright
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Dunno what it is or what causes it but I've seen it in the red maples here.
May want to save those rounds. Advertise them on craigslist/eBay. They may fetch a good dollar to the right person. If you get more and want to market it ,I'd leave it in longer lengths. If there was one red maple in that area like that there will be more.I was looking at some opld pictures I had taken of the foliage in that area, some of which were taken almost straight up. N I do see some maple leaves, n even though I can't say they belonged to the actual tree I was asking about, I would be inclined to believe those here on A.S. as it being Red Maple. Y'all have never steered me wrong.
I'm still learning how to identify these trees, so I so know I'm making a lot of mistakes. N this was one of them.
One thing I can say though, it is a tree, n it will eventually burn!
With it being Ambrosia Maple (as per LEES WOODC's post), maybe I should try my hand at carving something out of the bottom part of the trunk!
I've got no idea what it is, but I'd be tempted to set a couple of cookies aside to dry. It would make a real interesting cutting board or clock.
Sure will if you can keep it from checking.
And a long wait.End sealer?
Thanks for the compliment on the hinge (btw, I'm a dudette :msp_smile: )
Some of the wood at the end of one of the large branches was all rotted out. I couldn't say how far it went down since I haven't processed the wood yet.
"With it being Ambrosia Maple (as per LEES WOODC's post), maybe I should try my hand at carving something out of the bottom part of the trunk!"
Chainsaw art, you may have found a new calling in life if you are any good at it. I swear one of those cuts looks like Abe Lincoln.
Neat. But I didn't see the General in there anywhere. I can make square and rectangular things. I have zero artistic talent. :msp_mellow:
Neat. But I didn't see the General in there anywhere. I can make square and rectangular things. I have zero artistic talent. :msp_mellow:
Me too, but I have one heck of an imagination! :biggrinbounce2:
FLHX Storm,
If the tree is a distance from anything and it looks like it on your picture.
Then maybe you have oil or tar on your property and the tree root has found it.
If you do a fresh cut on any of the stained wood and put a piece of paper towel on the cut right away, if it's oil some will go into the towel almost right away.
If nothing happens on that test then it might be just a sulphur or iron deposit in a permanent wet zone one of the roots hit.
High counts of both of them can stain a tree pretty good.
A tree with a very high sulphur amount will smell bad cutting and have blotchy stains.
A tree with a very high iron count will have deep blue stains.
Both have to be in extreme amounts for the tree to move them into the wood though, oil is much easier for a tree to move into the wood.
Curious what the well water is like now
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