Chasing Down Arborists...

[onocoffee]

I think I've made a turn for the "worse."

Spied a team of arborists taking down a neighbor's maple tree (the upper part had rotted and was pretty much dead) and I couldn't help but make my way over and ask what they were going to do with the wood. Garbage - and they agreed to give me a couple of pieces and even Dingo them over to put in my truck. Gave them a bag of coffee as a Muchas Gracias and was on my way to my local sawyer who cut the logs in both 8/4 and 4/4 slabs. After some Armor Seal and stickers, they're now stacked under my deck for the long march to dryness.

Maybe in two years, they'll become chairs.

The arborists told me it is maple. My sawyer thinks it's maple but not sure which maple. If you might have any insight, I'd be interested to learn.

 

[peter halle]

The bark reminds me of silver maple.

 

[squall_line]

After a bot bumped the Acoustic Bracing thread, I re-read a post I made in December, 2022 lamenting how little urban lumber is harvested.

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Post in thread 'Bracing in Acoustic Guitars'

Dec 1, 2022

FWIW...I read that Fender is severely curtailing the use of ash in their solid body guitars, they're reserving it for their premium, upper tier Telecasters.
A combination of the Mississippi Delta flooding and the Emerald ash borer have severely limited the supply of ash.  [sad]

Here's a 1951 ash Telecaster.

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It's a shame that more urban trees can't be harvested for lumber.  EAB has made for plenty of removals; there were over a dozen on my street within the last 2 months besides the 30" DBH ash that I had taken down two years ago after the hurricane.  All of the ashes in the...

• squall_line

Granted, most sawyers won't touch urban lumber without a metal detector and fee for broken bandsaw blades, so there's good reason for it, but it's also still a shame. My neighbors had a beautiful old red oak that had some massive burls on it that they had taken down and shredded.