Poplar there. I don't know if I'll take it to the kiln or just stack it. The finish is rough with the chisel chain. I need to plane it down a little before sealing. Most of this in going to be raised garden beds.
Nice job mdavlee, how thick are the boards you milled? I have some milling to do this spring or summer, a nice size bigtooth aspen that Mother Nature ripped the top off.
Got 4 more cut today. I squared the log up with the mini mill and the 088. It worked good til it came loose and hit the mini mill with the chain. Did get 4 nice poplar boards out of it and semi skip square filed worked great.
For your info the 046 standard out put oiler barely keeps the 24" oiled milling. I'm getting the HO oiler for it soon. I forgot about it until I killed my chain for the short bar to fit the 088.
Very nice work. Certainly beats going to Home Depot and buying all that wood. I should consider this for when I build my wood shed this summer. My buddy dries his by keeping the planks or slabs off the ground in his woods covered with a tarp. He separates them but they are left in a shady moist environment for about a year per inch of thickness. They seem to be drying slowly enough to avoid checking or splits. If your wood is for garden beds it may not matter as much?
Yeah I'm enjoying it more than any other part of the saw hobby stuff. I sealed a lot of the stuff I milled last fall with stain and it hasn't checked yet. They're already made and the wife liked them without planing for some reason so it saved me some work. I don't think they'll have a problem being garden beds. I figure if those rot too quick I'll go to locust or red oak.
Plus the rough sawn stuff will last a bit longer outdoors than planed stock,all things being equal.Sheds water better.
Thanks for posting your pics. I was just looking at YouTube at different milling setups. Not that I need any more projects to do but I could pick something worse than milling my own planks. Nice job on the planks of wood.
