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

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Left split crotch stump
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White oak crotch stump
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Right split crotch stump

Prior 09/2013

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One 36" side of a Cherry crotch
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The "other" (future) cherry half still standing
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Chinquapin Oak
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Inside of the split cherry crotch
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Red oak to be split 6 ways (has been SAWN)
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Walnut stump
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One of the many 36" limb crotches
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Red oak size reference
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Cherry stump ( has been sawn)