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Hi there! I just love nature and so with trees Here in our place we got lots of good lumber trees which my grandparents plant during their time. My dad build chest box which he put carvings on it and most of the time people wants their name carved on top of the chest box. My dad make sure that the wood he'll be working with is mature and dried up much, I am not sure if the word keelping is the right term for that. so if it will be hammered, there will be no breaking and twisting of the wood. I just love wood since I have pride of telling my friends that from a piece of wood, my dad can make a beautiful chest box with it, where tourist flock at our shop and order, to be flown to their homeland.
That's why I love wood. How about you?

Jenagirl,
Welcome to the forum.
I rather like wood, too.

My guess is that its a spammer given the poor grammar. I could be wrong, but we shall see.

damagi wrote:My guess is that its a spammer given the poor grammar. I could be wrong, but we shall see.

More than likely it's some one who, English is a second language.

beeg wrote:More than likely it's some one who, English is a second language.

My conclusion also.(and maybe fairly young as well) Let us NOT discourage 'her'!!!!!!!!

Jenaagirl: Welcome. It would be awesome to see some pictures of your father's chests.

beeg wrote:More than likely it's some one who, English is a second language.

Like 'Americans' ... he said, tongue firmly embedded in cheek (or is that 'cheeky'):D

I feel so blessed to live in an area where so many species are available locally. I have put up maple (there is a town called 'Maple Ridge' close by), spruce, walnut, rhododendron (100-year old piece, blew down in a storm a few years back), and so on. A few of us always are on the lookout for trees coming down... there is a local guy with a wood-miser who can be bribed fairly cheaply!

Jenaagirl, what grows in your area? Come to think of it, what grows in anyone's area?

Derek, just outside of Vancouver, B.C.

derekdarling wrote:Like 'Americans' ... he said, tongue firmly embedded in cheek (or is that 'cheeky'):D

I feel so blessed to live in an area where so many species are available locally. I have put up maple (there is a town called 'Maple Ridge' close by), spruce, walnut, rhododendron (100-year old piece, blew down in a storm a few years back), and so on. A few of us always are on the lookout for trees coming down... there is a local guy with a wood-miser who can be bribed fairly cheaply!

Jenaagirl, what grows in your area? Come to think of it, what grows in anyone's area?

Derek, just outside of Vancouver, B.C.

We have a lot of Cottonwood growing around here. Most people think of it as a trash tree but it has a number of good uses. It is a mess to sand, especially if you don't have very good dust collection and it often gives operators of circle sawmills fits to saw. I have never tried to use any of it for furniture and probably will not ever but it is great for horse stalls. They do not care for the taste of it. It can be used as framing as long as it it well protected from weather but it needs to be cut over-sized a bit to compensate for its lesser strength than some common framing lumber. Its big plus is that demand is not high and it quickly grows quite large, usually without a lot of knots and fairly straight.
We have a lot of the common "hardwoods" here in Central and southern Indiana. Oak, ash, poplar, sycamore, black walnut, hickory, elm, hackberry, alders, wild cherry, basswood etc. Several useful and once common species were badly plundered over the years and are now fairly scarce. Stuff like gum, tulip poplar, hedge etc. Other than aromatic cedar most of the pines and spruce etc. in my area were planted trees. Many of the larger plantings were done by the CCC during the great depression.

Here in N. AZ, there are oaks and walnut trees. Very few, tiny and mostly inaccessible. Quite a few tamaraks, which I understand yields decent lumber. Never cut or used any. And, along with the tamaraks, the ubiquitous cottonwood along the rivers (?) In AZ, if any ditch has ever had water or, is ever expected to have water, it's called a river;) .
Lots of juniper, scrub cedar and towering pines. No mesquite this far north.
There are stands of manzanita around, but that's another species I've never worked. Like to though.

In my area (Quebec city, CANADA) many kinds of maple trees, ash trees, Oaks (because we planted some), Yellow birch, wild cherries, spruce, fir, aspen (also called common poplar), white birch, red pine (planted), white pine, white cedar, Beech, Hemlock (planted), Crab apples (planted), Juniper (planted).
I have cut some crab apples a few years ago and some limb, even the trunk is big enough, I kept them in order to turn something next fall.
Are they any good to turn ?

camerio wrote:In my area (Quebec city, CANADA) many kinds of maple trees, ash trees, Oaks (because we planted some), Yellow birch, wild cherries, spruce, fir, aspen (also called common poplar), white birch, red pine (planted), white pine, white cedar, Beech, Hemlock (planted), Crab apples (planted), Juniper (planted).
I have cut some crab apples a few years ago and some limb, even the trunk is big enough, I kept them in order to turn something next fall.
Are they any good to turn ?

Everything is good to turn, some stuff is just gooder...

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