Red Maple - still my favorite

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'

 

Nice looking red.
What's the intended use of the new dimensional lumber?

 

Nice work Shawn , nice lookin lumber

 

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...

 

He's got the "sickness".

Farmhouse table. Nice stock Shawn.

 

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!

 

That looks great. Have you ever milled shagbark hickory?

 

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.

 

Very nice as usual Shawn. Do you have to lug those slabs down stairs or is your basement a walk out?

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.