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hawthorn-wood-for-turning-gain Guo R ed. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the gaih domain. ScotO Guest. Phytochemicals found in hawthorn include tanninsflavonoidsoligomeric proanthocyanidinsand phenolic acids. Instead of paying a sawmill to store wood for years, you can take any piece of fresh cut material, even from the hawthorn wood for turning gain pile, and turn it.

So instead of spending time trying to find it I just thought I'd throw it out there and see what you all think. Jon Minister of Fire. Aug 25, 2, Pittsburgh, PA www. No direct experience, but some Google searching suggests it's excellent firewood. Thistle Minister of Fire. Dec 16, 4, Central IA. Closely related to Apple,Pear,Plum,Cherry etc. Thorns on some species can be 2"-3" long.

Reactions: ScotO. Thanks Thistle, guy I know has this property and along one edge of it this small hill was covered with these trees.

A couple years ago the neighbors came and ask if they could cut away what was hanging over their yard. He told them sure and when he came back they had cut all of them down. Maybe of them. All only like 4" trees but lying there and going to go to waste. He thinks they're Hawthorn because of the little thorns covering them.

Can't say I've ever seen this before. I hate to see it go to waste and I love getting wood when it's helping someone else to get rid of it. He also has a pile of 3 year old Ash logs sitting on the property he said I could have. So when I go over and split that I'll cut some of these trees and see how it burns.

I'm not too good with a camera but if I remember I'll take some pics and post to see if you think it's Hawthorn. Butcher Minister of Fire. Nov 2, N. Hawthorn is pretty good wood but those thorns are nothin to take lightly. Wear some good soled boots and some gloves. Reactions: AJS Paulywalnut Minister of Fire. Seasoned wood 4" thick or more is virtually unobtainable The reason is purely economic.

It takes many years to fully air dry a 4" plank of wood or several expensive weeks in a kiln. The high wastage and the cost of the overheads are so high that most sawmills are reluctant to cut anything thicker than 2" for stock.

Thicker timber is available but it is usually sold as "part seasoned" before it has a chance to dry fully. It is a sad fact that many sawmills, even reputable ones, will sell thick wood as "kiln dried" which is only dry on the outside skin. If you turn something out of it - say a bowl - you are asking for trouble. The stresses inside the timber are released when it is turned and it will soon warp or split. You might be lucky and find some timber which has been stored for years for some reason, but normally you can be sure that wood more than 3" thick will be only "part seasoned" and will not be suitable for turning immediately into a finished object.

Using part seasoned wood One of the big advantages of being a woodturner is that you can use green or part seasoned wood without waiting years for it to dry - provided you know what you are doing. Useful sources of supply. Friends with large gardens or woodlands. Firewood merchants Tree surgeons, estate maintenance contractors, farmers etc.

Timber auctions Old furniture Sawmills Offcuts from furniture makers Specialist woodturning shop Green Turning of Bowls A hundred years ago, the woodturner was an important member of the village community - every bit as busy as the village blacksmith and employed to make furniture and household "treen", including lots of wooden bowls for the kitchen and dairy.

The process of making a bowl from green or part seasoned wood is very straightforward. The advantages of this process are many. You can buy the wood cheaper and have a much better choice of material. You can get material as thick as you like for nice deep bowls. Wastage from the log due to end splits etc is eliminated. You can use pieces with wild grain which would not dry properly if left in the plank.

Wet Wood Turning Chisels For Sale 80 wood cuts easier and quicker Less dust is generated so that is healthier for your lungs The disadvantage is you have to look some weeks ahead - you cannot buy wood as you need it, you have to maintain a stock. Storing rough turned bowls Once the bowl is roughed out it has to be stored in such a way that it dries out as quickly as possible without splitting.

Drying can be accelerated by warmth but moisture has to be prevented from evaporating from the surface too fast or the bowl will surely split. With coarse grained quick drying wood such as elm and walnut you can dry a large bowl from green in about 6 weeks. Simply wrap it well in twenty or thirty layers of newspaper open up a whole newspaper and use it to wrap the blank to make a parcel and keep it in a warm room.

Tape it up so that no gaps show. Write on what it is and date it. My father Peter Child use to rough turn hundreds of elm bowls and protect them with "paste wax" before drying them in the airing cupboard.

Paste wax is a kind of cheap floor polish used commercially in factories, hospitals etc. End seal coating such as Mobil "C" would do just as well. The Seasoning Process There is no such thing as a dry piece of wood. Every wood blank or finished turning will lose or absorb moisture from the air until it eventually reaches an equilibrium point with its surroundings.

The equilibrium point in, for example, your living room depends mostly on the average value of the relative humidity from month to month. If the atmosphere is very dry due to the central heating, then all the furniture and wooden objects in the room will lose water to the air until the percentage of water inside the wood drops to the value corresponding to the conditions. I can prove this by using an electronic moisture meter to measure the water content of the oak beams which have been "seasoning" there for years, maybe more.

Wood warps if its water content changes. It shrinks if it loses, and expands if it gains. Hawthorn is frequently used as rootstock in grafting, often used in grafting applications with pear trees. Most importantly, though, hawthorn has several characteristics that make it a suitable candidate for firewood and for building.

It is hard and resistant to rot, prized as a material to make things like fence posts and handles. You can find hawthorn growing all over the world, although the best types for using as firewood will be found in temperate regions of North America.

There are various cultivars and species of this tree, some of which are found in Europe, North Africa and Asia, too. Closely related to plum, apple , pear, and cherry trees, this species is dense and fine-textured.

It has thorns that can grow up to three inches long and is found all over large portions of the midwest and eastern United States. The one downside to using hawthorn as firewood is a minor one While its wood has superior quality, it can be a pain to split because of its uneven lengths as well as its thorns.

This is where a hydraulic wood splitter will come in handy if you have access to one. Latex dipped gloves work great when handling the wood. The latex dip offers great protection from getting stabbed by the thorns Seasoned wood will always burn Hawthorn Wood For Turning 65 better than fresh-cut, or green wood, since it produces more heat with less creosote build-up in your fireplace.

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