The beging of my newest Tennessee

[hillbilly1964]

I just Got this really Nice piece of curly Ash.
I am gonna have My old buddy Mike Davis turn into a a 40 caliber Tennessee. http://s1000.photobucket.com/user/ridgerunner1488/media/IMG_20140617_142523.jpg.html?sort=3&o=2

 

[azmntman]

Looks like a swell chunk. I been eyeballing a dead black walnut tree I found hunting. Can't cut em down but hoping the 60 mph winds we had these last few day could help. Gotta get to it before it gets too soft. Been dead 2 years now. Will have to cut with hand saw and haul out as in a NO CUTTING area (you can use hand tools n cut down dead for "firewood" as in camping though :grin: )

 

[Brokennock]

Can't "cut" it down, but if it's dead standing could you "influence" it to come down with, say, a stought rope and block and tackle?

 

[azmntman]

Just need a thick limb so maybe a small set up? Rather get caught with heroin here than poaching wood, the feds and the mexican spotted owl got everybody messed up. Now we cant drive off the road to get wood and 85% of the roads have been "closed" and ya gotta get a map to see which ones and not even the veteran forest service men can read the map and they too cheap and hateful to post the closed roads. But it is fine for them to drive em to see that we dont? Geez I should shut up or be a book soon.

Black walnut may be my next stock and got a gunsmith buddy to "whittle" it down for me!

 

[Turtle Creek]

Woodchucks all of ya.
Is that AZ BLM, State prop or Fed. Park that's so restricted?
Don't seem to have that issue down here but I go horseback most places.
Hillbilly that just looks like a board to me, I suspect you can see the potential but I've never been a wood worker except cutting firewood.

 

[kaintuck]

Get the heart wood as best as you can....walnut works well IF you have dense rings.....otherwise, I find it soft.

Marc

 

[Eric Krewson]

I have found there is permission to be had to cut just about any place if you go about it the right way. I cut so much osage for bows when I was younger I won't have to cut again in my lifetime. All was cut with permission garnered after I simply asked and often showed one of my bows to the land owner. Federal land foresters can write permits and hate to see wood go to waste and rot as much as you do.

One TVA forester told me, after seeing one of my bows, to pick any osage tree on the reservation I wanted and he would write me a permit to cut it.

Never did follow up on this offer but it was on the table.

Stealing bow wood is rampant in the bow making community, I find this aspect of the craft troubling because permission to cut is out there, you just have to do a little leg work and knocking on doors.

 

[azmntman]

Pretty much all or Coconino county (Coconino national forest). They will likely close the forests to public entry here in a week or two per extreme fire danger. Several fires yesterday per wind blowing down power lines, don't know how they stopped em! 70MPH here yesterday.

As for getting a permit for my piece of stock wood from our wonderful federal employees, be easier to get Alden to eat grits!

And ya, if I can get the entire tree I will go for heart wood, hand saw a chunk or two and haul her out (will take me baby boy as a mule, he's 6'3" and stronger than a real mule (just have to tell a lil white lie about the real reason for the specific hike, he can disappear quicker than a monarch bull elk if he senses work :shocked2: )

 

[Bob J]

That looks like it will make one pretty stock.

 

[Col. Batguano]

Lots of curl in it that's for sure. How is the shear strength of ash compared to maple? It looks like there will be a fair amount of grain runout in the wrist.

 

[Drue Rice]

Louisville Slugger baseball bats are made from ash, it's some kind of tough.

The Emerald ash borer has just about wiped out the ash trees in my area (Southern Indiana),the bug was spread by campers transporting firewood.

Just about all states east of the Miss' have banned transporting of firewood into camp sights.

That should make one pretty stock !

 

[hillbilly1964]

Lots of curl in it that's for sure. How is the shear strength of ash compared to maple? It looks like there will be a fair amount of grain runout in the wrist.

I have been told it is as tough as woodpecker lips.

 

[Zonie]

I've also seen a whole lot of ash Louisville Sluggers crack. Many of them end up with most of the bat flying out into the field of play.

 

[Flintfan69]

I've also seen a whole lot of ash Louisville Sluggers crack. Many of them end up with most of the bat flying out into the field of play.

True, but not nearly as many broken ash bats compared to the epidemic of broken maple bats many MLB players started using a few years ago. Both woods have their pro's and con's.

 

[Col. Batguano]

Here you go;
http://www.woodworkweb.com/woodwork-topics/wood/146-wood-strengths.html

 

[Mountain Rifleman]

Mike is a Top Notch Builder. I have one he built me last year and one in the making.

 

[hillbilly1964]

Mike is a Top Notch Builder. I have one he built me last year and one in the making.

Yes He is I just spent the day with him And I watched him Start My New Bean style Rifle.
I must admit I was about to Have a Heart attack watching him Well the Only word I can use IS attack My $200 dollar Super curly Ash Stock with a band saw.
But As the Pictures will attest mike is a true Craftsman. http://s1000.photobucket.com/user/ridgerunner1488/library/?sort=3&page=1

 

[kaintuck]

:shocked2: I don't think I have ever seen that before!
He must have the chain oil turned off in that saw! :surrender:
Some folks do use a chain head for a grinder.......I wouldn't be scared to use on of those on a blank......I'm just scared of the tool!!! :surrender:

I'm to accident prone....
Marc