Those of you familiar with tress in south Texas know that Huisache is a major "trash" species--grows everywhere, hard to kill, usually not more than a bush, and very thorny. One of my patients informed me he had taken down a large tree and wondered if I wanted it? Yep!, was happy to take it off his hands. It actually is a very attractive wood when it gets big enough.
I got a ~24 in X 8 ft trunk this time that I cut into ~30 inch sections then slabbed'em. This was a GIANT for this kind of tree.
Due to the way the tree grows, they almost always have multiple trunks that coalesce into a trunk that results in crazy grain patterns, lots of inclusions, and has a nice orange hue to the wood. It's uncommon to get a bowl larger that about 8 inches. Plus the wood is very hard-- even more than my fave-Mesquite.
The slabs are ~4 in thick, left the chainsaw in for scale
I got a ~24 in X 8 ft trunk this time that I cut into ~30 inch sections then slabbed'em. This was a GIANT for this kind of tree.
Due to the way the tree grows, they almost always have multiple trunks that coalesce into a trunk that results in crazy grain patterns, lots of inclusions, and has a nice orange hue to the wood. It's uncommon to get a bowl larger that about 8 inches. Plus the wood is very hard-- even more than my fave-Mesquite.
The slabs are ~4 in thick, left the chainsaw in for scale