Tree down, wood orange, worth keeping?

[Frank Fusco]

If it's Bradfor Pear, a turned item might look like this:
http://www.familywoodworking.org/for...ad.php?p=82585

This hunk was well seasoned and very hard. Now, with time, it has lost the orange color and is not as pleasing to look at.

[Jonathan Shively]

Any turner wanting to make baby toys, pear and apple are not toxic woods for babies to "gum" on.

[Robert Schaubhut]

Shaz,

I'd say cherry...






Hi Greg ,
Your pile looks like my pile. Does that tree put out extremely sharp pointie "I'll be glad to hurt you" needles all over it during most of the year? ...S

Bradford Pear. One fell across the street, last week. they cut up "firewood" and it is perzackerly as discribed and pictured. Loverly white blooms in the spring, exact same leaves as pictured and the wood is fabulous. Now I have to go over and introduce myself to the new neighbor and steal/borrow some of the wood before it starts to check.
Hi Bill ,
That looks like the blossums of my tree "from a far" but my trunk split into major unruly branches at about 4'. Also, does the Bradford pear put up shoots from the roots within a 12" radius of the tree? They were always a problem, like a privet hedge does if you are familiar with that....S




Common Names: Bradford pear, Callery pear, ornamental pear

IMHO

If it's Bradfor Pear, a turned item might look like this:
http://www.familywoodworking.org/for...ad.php?p=82585
Hi Frank ,
Thanks for the photo injection! Very nice and relative, IF infact it is a Bradford Pear!...S

This hunk was well seasoned and very hard. Now, with time, it has lost the orange color and is not as pleasing to look at.

Any turner wanting to make baby toys, pear and apple are not toxic woods for babies to "gum" on.
Hi Jonathan ,
This kind of information is more valuable than to just this thread! Please start a thread and make this information common knowledge in the forum!!
Thanks,...S

I appreciate the help and have had too much on my plate to do anything with it as of yet. If I decide to keep it, even just some of it, what is an easy way to stop the checking, or do I even need worry.
What? ME Worry!
Shaz

[Vaughn McMillan]

Shaz, you might not stop the checking, but you can slow it down by sealing the cut ends of the logs. Most turners use a wax emulsion like Anchor Seal. (Rockler - and I believe Woodcraft - have their own label versions of the same stuff.) If that's not handy, you can use old latex paint...a few coats slopped on thick will help prevent checking.

Here's another example of what that wood can look like:

[Robert Schaubhut]

Shaz, you might not stop the checking, but you can slow it down by sealing the cut ends of the logs. Most turners use a wax emulsion like Anchor Seal. (Rockler - and I believe Woodcraft - have their own label versions of the same stuff.) If that's not handy, you can use old latex paint...a few coats slopped on thick will help prevent checking.

Here's another example of what that wood can look like:

WHOA, in the hand of the Master, a beautiful piece.
Hi Vaughn
Thanks,
Shaz