Mesquite anyone? Wood Gloat from AZ

[Mike Vickery]

I got a call today from a contact at the city saying he had 3 Mesquites I could get if I wanted. So like any good wood turner I went to scout the location on my lunch and sent e-mails rallying the troops.
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Their were 2 16 inch logs about four feet long, one 18 inch log about 3 feet long and the monster that was 22 inches in dimater at the smallest point and 27 inches in diameter at the biggest and about six feet long.

Good thing one of the guys had a Husky 455 or we would have never been able to cut the big one. This is 1/5 of the haul. Their were 4 of us and we a donating a share to our local wood club to auction at the desert wood turning roundup next month.

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I was glad I got the call my existing wood stash was starting to run pretty low:D .

[Joash Boyton]

Great gloat!! Looks like some nice timber!! What's the yellow timber in photo #3?

Nice;)
Joash

[John Hart]

Great haul Mike!

Mesquite is pure joy....beautiful wood, super stable, and smells like a barbeque!:)

[Keith Burns]

Mike, great haul. Now we must talk about getting some of it to Tennessee as you can't possibly turn all that:D

[TYLER WOOD]

I am in the process of turning some mesuite from AZ. I love the color of it. Very smokey looking in the pice that I have. Good luck on aking each individual log into a masterpiece!

By the way you can ship any excess you want to Texas for me :)

[Steve Schlumpf]

Wow Mike - Great Gloat! Look forward to seeing what you turn out of some of it! Have fun!

[Kevin McPeek]

Quit bragging...LOL
I only get to say that because I got one of the other shares of the haul. And yeah, it was a haul. Even cut up some of these were two man blanks. We don't get a lot big stuff around here so these were specially exciting.

[Mike Vickery]

Great gloat!! Looks like some nice timber!! What's the yellow timber in photo #3?

Nice;)
Joash
I am going to assume you are talking about picture 4. The big hunk of yellow wood on the far right is box elder burl. The half log blank that is stacked on another piece next to it is Mystery wood were my best guess is Arizona Ash.

[Bernie Weishapl]

Great haul Mike. I love turning Mesquite. I just got a couple of blanks off e... It is so stable and as John said smells good.

[Dario Octaviano]

CONGRATS!!!

Looks a like a great haul! On the last pic...the yellow one and the one below it looks like BURL! Is it?

[Mike Vickery]

CONGRATS!!!

Looks a like a great haul! On the last pic...the yellow one and the one below it looks like BURL! Is it?

Yeah the big yellow block on the end is box elder burl. The egg shaped one in front fo it is a small mesquite burl from a different haul.

[Neal Addy]

Congrats on the haul, Mike! Mesquite is a real pleasure to turn!

Look forward to seeing pics of your work.

[Tom Sherman]

Lucky dog, looks like a great haul.