This is from the tree that fell last year, that "definitely made a sound" - but only my girlfriend heard it... I think I was in the other room on the computer at the time (probably on FHC) No pics of the woods play as the camera needed to be charged. I'm resawing these 4 center cut pieces into some quartersawn 4x4 and 2x4 stock - more pics to come.
Hot one today! It's days like this when having a sawmill in your basement don't sound so crazy... Here's the results: - 4 QS 4x4 x6'8 - 4 QS 4x4 x5' - 3 2x4 x6'8 - 1 2x4 x5' - 2 1.5x4 x5'
Thanks! I don't really have too many specific plans, just a dream: to make some fine furniture from it someday. Or sell some of it to friends for the same purpose. I guess was thinking of a timber-framed woodworking bench, but I'm not sure yet if these specific pieces will be used. I'm mostly just hoarding. I plan to post some updated stack pics after I get these pieces stickered. This will have to hold you over for now...
Shawn Curry at it again! Man that red color is saweet lookin Do you perform a reference MC check when you slab them up? I forgot to ask that up at Dennis' place...
Thanks! That thought had crossed my mind too... Thanks! No MC check. Actually these posts are about the only record I have of what's in the pile. Hopefully I can remember what species they even are in a few years!
Nope - I'd love to get my hands on some though. I don't own a single one - Im king of the swamp maples over here. Thought about floating a barge over to Splitsnstacks place... I've thought about offering my services in a CL ad too - possibly free of charge if I want it and get 50% of the wood. But I won't have much time for that this year. Might not have much storage left either.
Float on down sir. There is still plenty of it to make into lumber! That stuff has some super tight grain, I counted 133 rings on the biggest one. Sure would have made beautiful lumber.
Yeah, they gotta come down a flight of stairs. But gravity does most of that work - they slide around pretty easy on the flat side, so I just have to act as the brakes. Once they're down there I gotta dead lift them onto my infeed table though. Eventually I want to build a pole barn for my wood shop and lumber storage - then I could finish the basement and actually park my car in the garage again.
I get that ya wanna do a pole barn, (there will prolly be a GTG for this event?) but I spy near the top of the thread - some basement windows.... Could you not make a system to allow you to slide the biggest lumber in that way? May take two peeps to work it, but distributing the wrangling of those slabs/ 4x's plus incorporating a landing/staging area to keep the stock up off the basement floor by the stair method? Just a' ramblin' on out loud, bubba!
You're not the first person to suggest that. I'm open to other ideas too but I think my stair method is tough to beat the way things are set up. I've got a couple locust slabs on the landing that I've been meaning to saw into pallet skids. So I brought one of them downstairs for a photo shoot.
2 things- 1) whatever works 2) adding a reclaimed "this" mid-run of the steps..... Just trying to help keep yer back from doing like mine, ya know?
I hear ya brother. Bringing it down the stairs is actually the easiest part of the whole operation. In the 2nd pic, I was standing on the 2nd to last stair balancing the slab with my left hand. Once I tip it past 45 degrees, it wants to start coming down; then I just slow it down and set it down on the stairs, and by that point there's only a couple more to go. What I need is a tractor if I'm going to save my back. In the woods, after I cut the log to 5' and 6'8" lengths, I lifted each section up onto firewood blocks to get some clearance to mill them. That was heavy.
