Do any of the STWoodists possibly identify the type of wood the frames in our cottage consist of?
Currently possiblilities include oak or pitch pine, but we’ve no idea really.

Elm?
All of the original beams in our barn are elm.

Probably oak. Love the pegs!

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Someone’s nicked your roof.

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Judging by the top picture i would say someone is rubbish at darts.

mostly fresh air rather than wood.

The end-grain on your last image says Oak to me.

Sanding back a small section may help with identification but looks like oak to me.

I agree with kayak23 – definitely oak

The grain in that cross-section says oak to me as well.
It’ll be a bugger to stick drawing pins in to hang the Christmas decorations!

Oak with that radial grain structure.

Steve

Pointing needs some work.

Pointing needs some work.

Oooh, can I show off my new pointing?

Extension, soffits and drain pipe getting done Monday, before anyone ‘mentions’ 🙂

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Cheers gents, there is indeed quite a lot of fresh air in some parts of it. In fact it was the pieces with a woodworm destroyed crust leaving an untouched heartwood that made up think it might be oak, unless that effect is common to other hardwoods too?

And as we all enjoy a bit of rennovation p0rn…

The wooden frame has a date of 1592 carved into it…

i’d love a chunk of that for a knife handle…..

What you do with the bits you remove dude? Serious interested if your near Lowestoft Suffolk.

Gotta love a good renovation for that “I did this” feeling when it’s all done.

Looks like oak to me, oak is very expensive as you will find out.

So you’ve got frass, sounds like the little munchers are still bang at it!

It’s a shame that none of us woodists is familiar with Elm. I wouldn’t recognise a piece of elm if it fell from the sky and kit me on the head. Was it a good burner?

no, terrible burner.

…Elm-wood burns like churchyard mould,
E’en the very flames are cold; …

http://www.treeblog.co.uk/viewpost.php?id=349

Burning off cuts of rubbish in the yard fire while building the barn, the elm rarely got going much.

It’s a very hard wood with tight grain.
Cutting old beams wrecked saws too.

Several beams that I removed fetched a good price on eBay – I think I got £100+ each for 3 of them and the buyer paid me to deliver them to a barn conversion he was doing somewhere in Somerset.

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dd just asked what the robot was doing there. 😕

Had to get him to point it out…No.3!! 😀

(has his mother’s creative imagination…)

*regrets allowing self to be so publicly out-housed*

At least I’ve got a roof.

Very disappointed, I was expecting something NSFW.

It’s not Mayope.

chestercopperpot – Member
Looks like oak to me, oak is very expensive as you will find out.
So you’ve got frass, sounds like the little munchers are still bang at it!

There’s been no evidence of anything live, but it’s all getting treated anyway.
Sadly they are in too much of a state to be passed as structural frames, so we are supporting the roof between an apex steel and the wall plates. The wood will be tarted up and kept in-situ as decorative niceness. There’s no way we could afford to replace them!

I do have a nice pile of various bits and lengths to tidy up and make use of. Certainly hoping for some faux door lintels and arcitraves, maybe even a table, although a lot of it is quite nail_y so tidying up will be slow.

Get a boron spray whike you have access.

Not sure about the timber but I am not happy sure that scaffolding temporary roof structure is to TG 20 guidelines, what scaffolding company erected that.

Yah a wise precaution.

I remember some reclaimed pitch pine we had at a yard where I worked, it had been outside uncovered for 15 years and was in the same condition from when it was reclaimed from a school! If you tried to cut it with a disposable saw it would jam about a quarter of the way through completely blunting the teeth.

Proper seasoned timber is a hell of material but prohibitively expensive for most projects, yeah you will do nicely selling it.

Ever seen Lignum Vitae? now thats some dense wood it sinks in water.