Inspiring logs to be milled

These are our future logs to be sawn. Sometimes we mill quickly BUT most of the time we will let them lay around and age or spalt, that also gives us opportunity to look at and mull around our best cutting options.

Saved from a burn pile..4'6" w x 5'8" tulip poplar  03/08/14
A beautiful carving piece!!

Wild white oak stump....standing dead... spalting crotch and some burl 11/30/2013

Left split crotch stump

White oak crotch stump

Right split crotch stump

Prior 09/2013

One 36" side of a Cherry crotch (Sawn 01/16)

The "other" (future) cherry half still standing

Chinquapin Oak

Inside of the split cherry crotch (Sawn 01/16)

Red oak to be split 6 ways ( SAWN 12/12)

Walnut stump

One of the many 36" limb crotches (Sawn 01/16)

Red oak size reference (Sawn 12/12)

Cherry stump ( has been sawn)