Hello. I am relatively new to turning and recently (end of March) I was given some Monkey Puzzle and Beech?? logs from tree felled in my brother's garden. The logs were transported home, cut to reasonable size, end grain sealed with wax and then stored in a dry garage within 3 days of being felled. Some of Monkey Puzzle logs hard the bark removed and / or the logs were rip sawn down the middle, other were stored uncut, with bark. All end grain was wax sealed, including branch end grain.
Today I had reason to move some of the Monkey Puzzle logs and I found that some have fungus growing on them. Some very dark green and "crusty", some light yellow and "fluffy". It appears to be only the logs that have had the bark removed, on the unsealed parts, both on the cut section and on the outside where the bark was. One log, without bark, but not sawn, appears to have spalting marks on the end grain, under the wax, but does not have large fungus growth on the exposed parts. The wood still appears to be sound. I will attach a couple of photographs. The beech and my other wood seems to be unaffected.
The moisture content reads as ~20% in the unsealed areas and ~27% in the areas sealed with wax.
Does anyone have experience of this? Is Monkey Puzzle particularly susceptible to fungal attack?
Should I burn it all or should I rough turn the Monkey Puzzle, dry it quickly (hopefully to kill the fungus by starving it of moisture) and then store again until I can finish turning it.
Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated.
Mike