That cypress wood reminds me of the time that Tom D and I were re-sawing rough sawn cypress logs on the big band saw we had. That saw, btw, was HUGE, over at Fred B's shop. The spindles were 10" on center, and the wheels were three feet around. That left a HUGE 7 feet from the bottom of the top wheel, to the top of the bottom wheel. IOW, this thing could easily, without even blinking, saw someone in two WHILE THEY WERE STANDING UP! My real fear of that thing was not getting munched, as it was a low speed blade, and fairly low feed speed machine. I think we set the feeder to about... I dunno it depended on the wood... cypress maybe 3/4 inchs a second or so.
Anyway, we were cutting 5/4 planks off these logs and came across a big void in one. Voids in cypress are not unusual, and the cypress we had, was so wet that it flying water spray off the saw. What WAS unusual was the pure white frog that jumped out of the void! It was maybe 2 inches across and 3 long... pure white from no light. Had dark eyes, not albino I guess... just had a sheltered life in a void in the wood. What it ate I have no clue. Maybe the passage it got in there through was letting some stuff crawl in. That void was a good ways into the log too, not right at the surface. Very very freaky to say the least, as Tom and I were working after our day jobs, and had run of the shop at night (roughshod over the prisoners who did night work for the shop).
Ah those was the days....
