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To have a look at what @Gerald and @lew contributed for our Black Walnut page click on the preceding link.

Might not be the right Pecan project but this is one the two of us worked on yesterday.

 

I learned how beautiful furniture could be made using Pecan wood so our first bedroom suit was pecan and we still sleep in its king size bed every night.  It been with us since 1961 or 2? Nooooo pictures.

On 11/29/2019 at 8:01 AM, Smallpatch said:

Might not be the right Pecan project but this is one the two of us worked on yesterday.

 

I learned how beautiful furniture could be made using Pecan wood so our first bedroom suit was pecan and we still sleep in its king size bed every night.  It been with us since 1961 or 2? Nooooo pictures.

Ever see a woodworker cry. No pictures.

16 minutes ago, steamshovel said:

Ever see a woodworker cry. No pictures.

Ya, I thought folks around here would have worked this wonderful wood, and had plenty of pics for our wiki.

I've got a log about 14" dia and 18" long.  Haven't figured out how to slab it with the SS band saw. Haven't given it a lot of thought, either. Right now, it holds a 16" square piece of granite tile as a patio end table. 

Glad to make something if I had some to work with. 

Shouldn't be too hard to find, Gunny. Isn't GA known for it's pecans? As the trees age, they quit bearing and, get replaced. There's some good wood in them thar old trees.

5 hours ago, Gene Howe said:

houldn't be too hard to find, Gunny. Isn't GA known for it's pecans?

Yes it is, but oddly I have never been given any, or had someone to swap something for it.  Maybe it's time I too a trip to a sawmill?

On 12/10/2019 at 9:56 AM, Gene Howe said:

I've got a log about 14" dia and 18" long.  Haven't figured out how to slab it with the SS band saw. Haven't given it a lot of thought, either. Right now, it holds a 16" square piece of granite tile as a patio end table. 

You will need to use a chainsaw . I would not even think of using a BS.

On 12/10/2019 at 6:44 PM, Woodbutcherbynight said:

Yes it is, but oddly I have never been given any, or had someone to swap something for it.  Maybe it's time I too a trip to a sawmill?

Look for people offering firewood . I have seen a great deal in Mississippi. Or you could come over I have lots due to my offering plate project.

 

@John Morris I have attached more photos .

 

 

7 hours ago, Gerald said:

I have attached more photos .

Thank you Gerald!!!!!!!!

Gene I would argue that fact for the oldest pecan tree or so the sign says in texas is in the bar ditch on 1-20 between Abilene and Fort Worth and it still produces pecans and we stopped there one time and dug up a little sapling sticking up about 8" high and took it to Lubbock and set it out in the front yard of our house. This was about 55 years ago and it is now a producing monster. The highway mowers usually keep things mowed down but from early spring till the weeds get tall enough to be mowed is when the nuts that gets into a little soil grows the most real quick. We were lucky and got there between mowings and dug it up. Lots of Pecan trees just past the deepest part of bar ditches all over Texas with monster pecan trees and folks that live close by usually keeps the area under the trees clean of fresh pecan nuts so now its hard to find any little trees.

Also I read where it takes 7 years for a planted nut to produce any nuts so that might be why the trees keep producing nuts forever when they finally start...

  I think the only native pecan tree in Texas is the Burkett, but not sure and now if a person goes to a nursery most of the trees being sold now will go under indian names...

Jesse, the growers down between Phoenix and Tucson thin the herd every year. Might be the variety they grow??? They're all thin shell but don't know the name. 

Gene, in this area we have a good many pecans.  I can attest to many orchards being planted over 100 years ago and still in production.  Most all of those old orchards have huge trees with short main trunks with large lateral branches.  An old tree shaped like this takes up a lot of real estate.  That was not an issue prior to about the 1960's - pecans were a secondary crop, alternate bearing (a good crop every other year and a poor crop the other year) and the orchards doubled as cattle pasture.  Trees provided shade, cows provided fertiliizer...

Today's cultural practices have done away with the cattle, introduced irrigation which mitigates most of the alternate bearing cycle and uses much larger & heavier equipment to maintain & harvest.  The older orchards are being replaced with trees grown with a central leader.  That tree can be shook with one grab, those older trees require the shaker to grab each of the main lateral branches separately.  I also see that new orchards are planted on pretty close spacing, maybe 20' x 20'.  If the plan is to have a mature orchard on 60 x 60 and it takes 20+ years to get there; trees planted closer will be economically productive sooner - and you have the option to "thin the herd" by either cutting them down or transplanting 10-15 year old trees.

 

I have no idea how long the tree would produce nuts, I suspect as long as it lives.  Getting some pecan lumber would really be a chore.  Those short trunks are massive, and when they are being taken down, generally the farmer wants them gone today - not tomorrow.  A lot of those older orchards were also converted to subdivisions...

@Cal, The guy that sells me mesquite gets a lot of pecan logs from that herd thinning process. I never thought about the mechanical reasons for the thinning. Makes sense, though. 

@Gerald, my short log will likely continue to serve to hold my coffee cup.  

Hey folks, can you do me a favor, when you click on Gerald's turnings in his post above, can you tell me if you see the turnings popout in a box, or is the box empty and black? Thanks

6 minutes ago, John Morris said:

Hey folks, can you do me a favor, when you click on Gerald's turnings in his post above, can you tell me if you see the turnings popout in a box, or is the box empty and black? Thanks

I see an empty black box.   Danl

7 minutes ago, Danl said:

I see an empty black box.   Danl

Thanks Dan, that's what I see too. Hmmm, a bug to work on.

9 minutes ago, Danl said:

I see an empty black box.   Danl

Ditto

1 hour ago, John Morris said:

Thanks Dan, that's what I see too. Hmmm, a bug to work on.

I use Raid, seems to kill them pretty good.