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Back in the day they used the oak for every thing from railroad ties to furniture . The money is in veneer today but I guess the market is surpressed from what they say . "Old Ironsides " is in fact live oak,not native in these parts . On that subject though,they talk in one of my books of...

I suppose it's just what you get used to . I've only ever dropped maybe half a dozen pine trees in my life but lost count of the big hardwoods . I too wouldn't have a clue what to do with a big Douglas fir on a slope.Take a picture of it I suppose .;)

Locally the few mills here are tight as the bark on a tree,always have been ,always will be . When you figure you only cut a woods maybe every 50 years,they only have to deal with you once . Seems funny though because the last red oak lumber I bought was nearly 3 bucks a board foot .:what...

I've never seen the west coast big timber .They say that historically in the westward expansion the game changed from eastern logging . It was common place for a pair of good axemen to drop a 4 foot oak in part of a day .However when confronted with a Douglas fir or big redwood 4 times that...

White oak is almost impervious to water .It does rot in time though . I have seen split rail fence that was over 100 years old . That little log storage building in the one picture is about 100 years old I've been told . It's all gone now but I salvaged good firewood in the late 1970's from...

I doubt they ever used springboards in the east. It is very rare to get even a 4 footer in an oak which would be the largest species . More times than not the veneer or "peelers " are around 24 to 36 inchs ,which is where the money is . In the area pictured those trees are about 80-90 feet to...

A few more .The first pic is a stump cut in 1936,the second in 1984 . The last is that often told story of the old car in the barn,this story is real .;)

The sandstone for these markers was all quarried from an area less than 1/2 acre .Some are real old,1800's

Forgot the pics,duh .

A lot has been said about the PNW and the big trees etc .Not much has said about the eastern hardwoods . The followings pics are in central Ohio. I have tromped accross this area since I was a boy .Fine qualty hardwoods have been harvested from these slopes since the 1850's . The only place I...