Don't be sorry! I'm a relative newb so I heed good advice. And btw... the rain in Spain falls mostly in the plain. rofl
that is the coolest thing! i had no idea , milling rocks. how many cuts on a chain before it gets sharpened?
The 30" wide stuff, 2 cuts and I notice it going a bit slow, but I cut 3 slabs. Only required 2 light strokes on each cutter to get it back. The last stuff I posted I did the entire base with one refresh, so about 5.
Excellent work, I am very envious. So many great projects you could make with that. Quick question for those in the know. How are you drying the slabs? I had a 26" white oak trunk that I cut into 3" thick cookies and wanted to try and make some table tops out of them. After I cut them I soaked them with linseed oil and put them in my garage rafters with spacers between them for air flow. I just checked them and all three of them have huge cracks 3-5" in them, pretty much unusable. Maybe the heat and humidity was too high up there over the summer months and they dried out too fast? I would love to get a simple Alaskan mill and mess around with making some lumber but don't want to put in the work just to screw it up again.
I did this for cutting boards from black locust too. Maybe try the mill way and not cut cookies but a couple slabs for butcher block.
Still sitting in the same place, covered with rubber roofing material. I'm sure as dry as they will get by this point. I just found an idea to use the other day on ope. I'm considering a couple of these. If you would want some of it, lmk.
Just read through the whole thread. That was one heck of a tree to mill especially with a chain saw. Buzz-saws mill can take up 18-20" logs.
All ive "made" out of milled wood so far. Cull 4" thick BL slab (center checks) on two BL stump cut offs.
Yes the excessive heat in a garage rafter would be a good reason but white oak always checks when drying and as to all milling messing up is how you learn what to do or not do and wood will always do something different to mess with you JB
