Thread: Sorry more stumps

Only time will tell if it is worthwhile. There has to be some exceptional figure to make it worthwhile as there are all sorts of nasties lurking in stumps just waiting to demolish your chainsaw.

Keep a watchful eye out for rocks caught in the root systems.

Good luck.

Regards
Paul

I was fortunate that the stump i milled up had been growing in sandy loam..i would be very carefull milling a tree stump that had been growing in rocky soil,in fact,i wouldn't attempt it...i reckon i was very,very lucky..the gods were smiling at me through the whole process..that said,wishing you all the success and good fortune..MM

Attacked this cedar stump yesterday, thought it looked interesting.
Unfortunately it was mostly hollow and crappy.
Some of the pieces looked OK for small boxes.
Very dark red colours.
Wish I had got it about 10 or 20 years earlier.
Anyway nothing lost......better luck next time.

Cheers

ps.. Small Timber Millers please keep posting. I for one, get inspired by your posts.

What a shame you couldn't recover more, salvaging can be a little hit and miss sometimes, I just milled up a blue gum head log I thought might be good as a work bench, damn thing split itself to pieces, never mind I need fire wood

I wish it was bigger, it has some beautiful colours and grain in it.
All is not lost. I took some to work today and cut it on the bandsaw.
Still only big enough for boxes but I will get quite a few nice pieces which if I can get some bookmatching happening will be stunning.
I wet some down to have a look and it is a very deep red colour.
Pics when I get home.

Didn't get a lot of spare time today, only got to cut one piece.
Put a little water on it to show the colour.
This piece is about 500x 170 x 35mm.
I might have to go back and get the 2 stumps I left behind. They were a bit bigger.

Andrew!!!! that is gonna come up a treat, already looks fantastic!!!! almost metallic

Started on the mango stump yesterday.
The root system was still packed with clay and no rocks at all, so I thought ....I'll have a go.
Took 3 hours to remove most of the clay with small crow bars.
It's got a bit of spalting going on. Stinks like a bastard.
Had to stand it up and cut it freehand.
It came out pretty good ( within 5 mm ) and no steps, happy with that as I had to cut from both sides.
I started on the punky side and after two cuts at 75mm thick it came good.
Found a few nails or barbed wire in the middle. bugger, at least I got them all in this slab. Next one is clean.
Also found these beetles in the middle chomping away.
The next 3 or 4 slabs should be prime.
The actual roots are very curly indeed, be interesting to see what they look like inside.
Slab pictured is 900 wide at the ends x 1600 long and 75mm thick.
Pics in random order, sorry.
All in all a bit of fun.

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Looks brilliant

Hope for your sake you were wearing a mask that blueing and spalting is dangerous stuff off mango.

Dangerous huh, now you tell me. OOPS next time.
Best I ask....why?

Originally Posted by Barterbuilt

Dangerous huh, now you tell me. OOPS next time.
Best I ask....why?

Spalting from any wood is fungus which for starters isn't good for the lungs when the Blue starts or is present its worse


Here's some more chat on the matter https://www.woodworkforums.com/f8/mango-normal-51023/

http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/wis30.pdf

A dear old bush chippy I knew gave me a little bit of Red Cedar that he had had for many years. I made a frame for a mirror with it and a hall stand to under it. When I was telling him one day what I had used it for he said he had another piece that came from the root of the same tree. It was only small so I turned a saucer sized bowl. The timber in the frame which came out of some limbs was quite a bit lighter than the root bowl.
My first attempt with my Alaskan Mill (inspired by BobL) was to to slice up some river oak. I only managed to get about 350mm down the log when I had to sharpen the chain. feeling quite dissolutioned by the process, and muttering under my beard, I realised that in the brk was fine sand which was a good abrasive for the chain. After I removed the bark with a rotary chisel in a 4½" angle grinder, The fruits of my labour were rewarded by some nice grained planks. BUT (and with me there is always a but) I cut them to 20mm thick so now that they have dried and warped all over I am hoping to recover some boards about 10mm thick (we'll see)
Some white cedar, that I picked up from a mate, I gave a good pressure wash to before slicing. I reckoned that any sand or grit would be washed away before blunting the chain.
With the cedar I sliced it to 30mm. I hope to recover around 20mm by the time I plane it
Its a fun job albeit slow and noisy. The colurs that you see straight off the saw are really stunning, but with the air drying the surface, it doesn't last long before the colours are gone.
When the weather cools down a bit more I have some Camphor Laurel and Silky Oak to slice up for my hoard.
I will take some photos I promise

Sure is addictive alright. And BobL is to blame for it.
I seem to have wood comming out of my backside atm.
Originally I thought I'd cut wood to start drying while I gathered my wood working machinery, but the actual cutting seems to captivating my attention for the moment. There is nothing like making that first cut and then rolling it over to see what it looks like.
I went back and collected the rest of the cedar stumps, so hopefully there will be some more of that red colour. Not that I need any more wood to cut. Also yet to start on the 11 palets of scented rosewood I scored, or the cedar logs, or the blackbutt log, or the scribbly gum log. Fortunately I now live in an area that abounds in nice timber. And once people know what you do for a hobby it gets worse. Someone saw me unloading stumps at work the other day and came over to have a look. The person then told me that a massive tree came down on there property in the recent storms.They called an arborist to come out and cut it. He limbed all the small stuff but refused to cut up the trunk of the white mahogany, said to be more than a mtr dia and 5mtrs to the first limb. Don't know if I'll get my hands on it yet, as they are investigating if it's worth anything.

At the moment I only have a ms390 with a 25" bar so I'm limited to what I can cut. Waiting for new rubbers to turn up for my 17' bandsaw and the ms660 that I thought I bought off the bay ended up being a scam, a gorrilla sized scam. Paypal refunded me so on the lookout again. When I find one and get it up and running a friend has a big brushbox, sally wattle and rosewood for me. Actually looking forward to the brushbox, it's a beauty.

My crystal ball has a green glow in it.
So, a big thanks to all who post here. Excellent forum.
Pics in random order again. One day I'll get it figured out.

Cheers
Andrew

Moved a Blackwood stump for someone the other day.

I'll let the pics do the talking

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