frustratedearthmother
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Do NOT overdo it again, MISTER! (Yes, I am kinda bossy, lol.) Glad you're feeling better today!
CntryBoy777 - The Lazy A** Acres Adventures
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CntryBoy777
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Well @CLSranch , Bruce is going to make some stuff with it, he does woodworking. I'm going to send him a couple of pcs...I'll burn the rest of it. When I was young like you are I did a lot of grilling, but since it is just me and the wife, I don't do near as much....maybe a couple of times a yr, instead of every wknd. 
@frustratedearthmother , naw I'm not pushing it that hard...I remember our "Deal" and I plan on taking full advantage of it, tho it may be this time next yr before I can, but certainly haven't forgot.....
@frustratedearthmother , naw I'm not pushing it that hard...I remember our "Deal" and I plan on taking full advantage of it, tho it may be this time next yr before I can, but certainly haven't forgot.....
Hens and Roos
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Glad to hear you are feeling better!
frustratedearthmother
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I wonder if you could sell that tree? Maybe there are other woodworkers out there who would appreciate it? Just a thought...
Bruce
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Right you are @CntryBoy777
BURNING Black Walnut??
To those of us who do not live where it is common it is a furniture wood, not a heating wood
My original plan was to use some of @CntryBoy777's wood to make natural round cutting boards like this
The light colored piece came from a maple (species unknown) a friend had cut down summer 2015. She gave me the wood to burn (I had to cut up larger pieces and bring them home, small price for free firewood ). I figured she might like a cutting board from her tree. I cut 2 slices (separated only by the width of the chain on the saw), didn't know about Pentacryl at the time. This one cracked a LITTLE in the center, since closed up. The other cracked almost all the way across after about a week. Never having tried anything like this I figured "just my luck one cracked". Turns out to be WHAT COLOSSAL LUCK! one DIDN'T crack. It has sat out in the barn from the fall of 2015 until now, not sanded for finishing until I did the others for my nephew's wedding present (I still have 7 months before I'm late ) 3 weeks ago. The gray splotches are natural (though I don't care for them too much) but it also has a natural dolphin image "swimming" over the lower splotch. It was more defined before final sanding to thickness ). The cambium layer stayed on it and I flaked off the bark. I really like the edge now that it is finished showing where the scales connected.
The other pieces are Sugar Maple. The tree was cut January 2016, the slices made in August. I cut a couple of 8" pieces that cracked halfway through by the next day. Then I found out about Pentacryl. As you can see that even after what I THINK was plenty of Pentacryl, sanding to thickness then for finish AND a coat of Watco Butcher Block oil & finish, the bigger ones cracked
They had been out in the unheated barn workshop until last week. Temps from -10F to 70F. Who knows what the humidity levels were. Brought them into a heated space (70F, probably too dry) because the Watco requires "room temperature, about 70F). The bark and cambium layers popped off all of these very early on and I do not know if having the cambium layer on the other one had some bearing on it not cracking (though it's "twin" similarly had the cambium layer when it cracked). I don't know if I can cut them and piece back together and have them still look fairly natural. Here is a closeup of the biggest one
One of the 3 smaller ones has a small crack on one edge but it was like that before I did the sanding to thickness, hopefully stable now a week later, the others aren't cracked at all.
BURNING Black Walnut??
To those of us who do not live where it is common it is a furniture wood, not a heating wood My original plan was to use some of @CntryBoy777's wood to make natural round cutting boards like this
The light colored piece came from a maple (species unknown) a friend had cut down summer 2015. She gave me the wood to burn (I had to cut up larger pieces and bring them home, small price for free firewood
). I figured she might like a cutting board from her tree. I cut 2 slices (separated only by the width of the chain on the saw), didn't know about Pentacryl at the time. This one cracked a LITTLE in the center, since closed up. The other cracked almost all the way across after about a week. Never having tried anything like this I figured "just my luck one cracked". Turns out to be WHAT COLOSSAL LUCK! one DIDN'T crack. It has sat out in the barn from the fall of 2015 until now, not sanded for finishing until I did the others for my nephew's wedding present (I still have 7 months before I'm late ) 3 weeks ago. The gray splotches are natural (though I don't care for them too much) but it also has a natural dolphin image "swimming" over the lower splotch. It was more defined before final sanding to thickness ). The cambium layer stayed on it and I flaked off the bark. I really like the edge now that it is finished showing where the scales connected. The other pieces are Sugar Maple. The tree was cut January 2016, the slices made in August. I cut a couple of 8" pieces that cracked halfway through by the next day. Then I found out about Pentacryl. As you can see that even after what I THINK was plenty of Pentacryl, sanding to thickness then for finish AND a coat of Watco Butcher Block oil & finish, the bigger ones cracked
They had been out in the unheated barn workshop until last week. Temps from -10F to 70F. Who knows what the humidity levels were. Brought them into a heated space (70F, probably too dry) because the Watco requires "room temperature, about 70F). The bark and cambium layers popped off all of these very early on and I do not know if having the cambium layer on the other one had some bearing on it not cracking (though it's "twin" similarly had the cambium layer when it cracked). I don't know if I can cut them and piece back together and have them still look fairly natural. Here is a closeup of the biggest one
One of the 3 smaller ones has a small crack on one edge but it was like that before I did the sanding to thickness, hopefully stable now a week later, the others aren't cracked at all.
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CntryBoy777
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Good idea FEM, but it seems around here it is plentiful, and I tried to give it and 5 oaks to a man that owns a sawmill, but he never showed to cut them....was giving him the trees and $200ea to get them down....guess it wasn't enough, but since all he had to do is drop 'em and I would handle the clean-up, I wasn't going to pay more. I wanted them down for the fence I'm putting up, but I couldn't keep waiting. The black walnut is only 12-15" in diameter at its widest, so it is basically a small tree. I thought like you, that it would be easy to find someone to drop it for the wood, but it hasn't panned out to be so....that's why I'm sending some northward to Vermont.
Bruce
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And I will send something southward to Mississippi. Might take a while though.
AClark
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Bingo. If you get the right amount of animals, you don't need to mow! The guy who owns my house said he was glad I was putting horses on it, so he doesn't have to get out with the mower every week.
norseofcourse
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Are you sure black walnut would be ok for cutting boards? I know it's got something in it that makes it bad to use for horse bedding - is it ok for things that will be in contact with food?BURNING Black Walnut??
My original plan was to use some of @CntryBoy777's wood to make natural round cutting boards like this
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And yes I'm too lazy to google... but the info would also be good for anyone reading this thread...
Mike CHS
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I had already looked it up because I knew the shavings were toxic to horses.
Here's some info I copied earlier.
Horses can be affected by black walnut if shavings made from the tree are used in bedding. As little as 20% black walnut in shavings or sawdust can cause clinical signs within hours of contact. Effects of exposure primarily affect the lower limb and include stocking up, stiff gait, and reluctance to move. If untreated, toxicosis can progress and cause colic, swelling of the neck and chest, elevated heart and respiratory rate, and even laminitis and founder. Clinical signs usually disappear once the bedding is removed. The best way to prevent problems is to ensure that bedding does not contain black walnut. Black walnut shavings are quite dark and easily contrast against light-colored pine shavings. Other livestock species are not affected.
Here's some info I copied earlier.
Horses can be affected by black walnut if shavings made from the tree are used in bedding. As little as 20% black walnut in shavings or sawdust can cause clinical signs within hours of contact. Effects of exposure primarily affect the lower limb and include stocking up, stiff gait, and reluctance to move. If untreated, toxicosis can progress and cause colic, swelling of the neck and chest, elevated heart and respiratory rate, and even laminitis and founder. Clinical signs usually disappear once the bedding is removed. The best way to prevent problems is to ensure that bedding does not contain black walnut. Black walnut shavings are quite dark and easily contrast against light-colored pine shavings. Other livestock species are not affected.
