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Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: Puckaway on February 26, 2016, 08:02:38 pm

Title: Todays haul
Post by: Puckaway on February 26, 2016, 08:02:38 pm

Today I cut some ERC.. nice stuff, some elm... No fun splitting and I've still got a log to go because I bout stroked out trying to split it! Also found a mulberry. Not straight at all with a split trunk and some goofy stuff going on, but I got a few staves from it. I sealed the ends in glue and took the bark minus some cambium off the elm. Now the wait begins.

Title: Re: Todays haul
Post by: Puckaway on February 26, 2016, 08:03:36 pm

Shoot forgot the pictures!!

Title: Re: Todays haul
Post by: Red Tailed Hawk on February 26, 2016, 10:24:09 pm

Nice😃. That erc looks great. Nice haul

Title: Re: Todays haul
Post by: osage outlaw on February 26, 2016, 10:26:18 pm

Nice staves.  I can smell the cedar from here. 

Title: Re: Todays haul
Post by: Jim Davis on February 26, 2016, 10:38:50 pm

I split elm with my Stihl 020 AVP  :laugh: 

Jim

Title: Re: Todays haul
Post by: Badger on February 26, 2016, 10:52:12 pm

  Good job Jim, makes my back hurt just looking at that elm.

Title: Re: Todays haul
Post by: ---GUTSHOT---> on February 26, 2016, 10:58:19 pm

Nice

Title: Re: Todays haul
Post by: mwosborn on February 26, 2016, 11:24:36 pm

Nothing like a new patch of wood.  :laugh:  Nice looking erc.

Title: Re: Todays haul
Post by: Jim Davis on February 26, 2016, 11:53:01 pm

Quote from: Badger on February 26, 2016, 10:52:12 pm

  Good job Jim, makes my back hurt just looking at that elm.

Steve, I think I'm getting credit I don't deserve. I was just saying how I split elm. It isn't my stash of staves. :)

I did cut a stash of Osage staves and billets, but a lot of them are too snakey to make a bow out of--looping way outside a centerline. Wish I had a wood stove.

Title: Re: Todays haul
Post by: Puckaway on February 27, 2016, 12:03:12 am

If excited about the ERC. It will be my first attempt working it. Ill back with rawhide or sinew for sure. Actually all three of these woods will be firsts for me.

Title: Re: Todays haul
Post by: BowEd on February 27, 2016, 08:34:14 am

You betcha...Your getting some inventory there.Nice haul.Good luck with that cedar....It does look pretty straight though too.

Title: Re: Todays haul
Post by: Chief RID on February 27, 2016, 10:37:36 am

The best quality of elm is the interlocking grain. The worst quality of elm is the interlocking grain. Bandsaw.

Title: Re: Todays haul
Post by: Dakota Kid on February 27, 2016, 07:52:27 pm

I hand split HHB & American HB for months before I found any elm to cut. At that point, elm seemed like a welcome relief.

Title: Re: Todays haul
Post by: Puckaway on February 27, 2016, 10:02:52 pm

Im going to finish the log with my stihl ms250 and a ripping chain...