Done that...... To them logs yesterday morning.... Sawed up a bunch more today, & got it all stickered before quitting time...
He likes to be at the mill....only trouble is, being a dog he's gotta lay directly in the way. I'll be walking backwards with the mill after a cut and trip over the bonehead, then he gets his feelings hurt and goes to pout in the sawdust for a while... then we do it all over again.....all day long....lol
Yesterday, we finished up the last of the pine we salvaged back in May.... Started with this.... Now we have this..... 5k bf of it at a customer's cabin project.... Built the roof of the pole building at my sister's place outta the pine also... Right about 20k bf of lumber logged, hauled, sawed, and stacked. No idea how many hours we've got into it, but it was a bunch! Now I just gotta decide what to build with it.... .
We slabbed out the last batch of the smallest logs a few weeks back. These little guys on the right... most of em are between 5" and 7" diameter. It made that many..... About 75% of it after edging.... Made two stacks like this.... about 3,000 bf total.
Milled some NZ grown English Oak over the weekend with my WKWS084. Beautiful grain, but the issue I'm having is that it cracks and splits badly as it dries. Apparently it grows a lot quicker here in the temperate climate of NZ and stores a lot of tension in the wood. Any ideas on how to mitigate this?
Beautiful slabs you have there. Sorry I missed your post and question. Big wide slabs are a real challenge to dry without lots of cracks and warps. My only advice is to keep them out of the direct sunlight, use lots of stickers, and not too much heat, with the goal being a nice slow even drying process. It's a shame they fall apart so badly, but it's pretty typical....unfortunately.
Took a few days off makin sawdust to rebuild this ol barn that was hit by a windstorm back in late July. This is how it landed.... The owners wanted it fixed on the cheap, so we reused the metal and as much lumber as possible.
Was a bit of a challenge to make some of the mangled metal kinda useable again... OSHA approved lift...... And there it is.... They asked me to remove this little honey locust while we were there...
Removed a big dead oak for a neighbor last week....36" & pretty rotten.... and way too close to the house...
The next day another neighbor asked me to take down a dead oak next to his shop... 32" and nice n solid.... still too close to the building...
Well done considering you had to work with the old stuff. I like that continuous 2x6 with hinges attached on each end. Ill remember if i ever have to build a double door or gate.
It turned out pretty okay for a bunch of unedjumakated hillbillies. Yes, that door building method is one of the very few clever things I've ever thunk up.
