Thread: Arkansas Sweetgum

thanks for showing

Nice looking stuff, always good to see what's happening in other parts of the world.

Hello Scott
Good looking timber. Any pictures of your milling set up? Thanks for the pictures thus far, sure is nice to see other timber, apart from our boring old hardwoods like Jarrah and Burl
Sincerely
Willy
Jarrahland

Had one of those trees grow in my front yard at my previous house, except we call it Liquidambar.

The seed pods from those trees are a real (literally) pain. Many a time I broke twisted an ankle on one of those bl**dy seed pods.

Nice timber though, thanks for sharing.

I planted 10 of those "liquidambers" along my front fence about 32 yrs ago. They are big trees now and have often wondered what the timver would look like.
I had heard them referred to as "American Sweetgums" but never "Arkansas Sweetgum". Interesting!!!
Also interesting...........Americans call our "River She Oaks" (casurinas) by the name of "Australian Pine". Logical because of the needle shaped leaves!

Good score on the timber!!

It certainly has interesting grain and we would like to see what becomes of it. Keep us posted.

Sweetgum in America is

Liquidambar styraciflua - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Whether it grows in Arkansas or somewhere else

Sweetgum - Plant of the Week

but then there might be slight regional differences.

Looking good Scott

Originally Posted by SDB777

....some local wood from the side of the pond....not sure if anyone is interested....

Keep the photos coming

Originally Posted by Big Shed

Sweetgum in America is

Liquidambar styraciflua - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Whether it grows in Arkansas or somewhere else

Sweetgum - Plant of the Week

but then there might be slight regional differences.

Very true, should have said in the title "Sweetgum from Arkansas"(or something like that). Just wanted to make in known that the wood was on the other side of the planet for most viewing here.


And a quick photo of my mill:


This photo was taken right after I had put her together(notice the lack of mess..).

Plan to start milling some Red Oak logs. Most likely an over-engineered post barn type set-up that I can run a hoist system on to move my logs inexpensively onto the mill. Figure 8"x8"x10' for the main posts....that should support any of the short logs that come my way?



Thanks for looking, I'll be sure to post more photo's as I get to cutting!
Scott (SDB777) B

Photo of the mess!



Took this the other day, they may be more or less mess now then at that time. But the constant cleanup never ends! And my burn barrel is getting a really good work out with all the bark that has been going in it.






Scott (SDB777) B

Scott,
An "off topic" question..........I was watching an episode of Mythbusters the other night and they continuously referred to a wheeled "Front End Loader" as a "Bulldozer!!!! To my mind, a Bulldozer is normally a tracked machine, although there is a "wheeled dozer" but these are rare and are quite different to a FEL.

Is terminology different in the US?

I expect common ordinary news repoters to get the terminology wrong sometimes but I thought that the "Busters" would have done better!!!!!

btw......nice timber and nice setup!

Rgds.
Bill.