Demoed a small deck today. Most of the old screws backed out intact so a good portion of the deck boards can be reused. Some 2x8's and 4x4's too. Im thinking this will be a big pallet build at my new wood storage location. I had put the nicest ones aside at storage already. These were from the built in bench.
Brad sure has a good nose for boards. Maybe he can take my pile of free wood I have on FB. Wood ya like some? Did I mention it's freer than a bird? This dude and family is moving.
Guess this fits here. Was at my favorite restaurant with my favorite waitress and she brought me a gift. It had been delivered to her house with her address but somebody else’s name. She couldn’t find anyone by that name and told the carrier to pick it up. It sat on her porch for a month and they never came. She opened it up, did some googling and figured out what it was. She decided to give it to the only guy she knows with fetish for wood I’ll owe her a charcuterie board or something LOL. From my googling it’s a Chinese knockoff 14”-48” mill. There is not a single manufacturer or model number on anything.
Holy smokes you must be living right! And here I thought I was lucky grabbing a 10" vertical band saw off the curb earlier today...
Nothing wrong with a bandsaw. Does it work? Many years ago I paid $10 for an old Craftsmen bandsaw. It’s still running.
I'll try it out tomorrow. It was put out to the curb with all sorts of garage items. I left with about 100 feet of extension cords, the bandsaw, some shop lights, and a come along.
Nope, and never really planned on it either. Seems like a lot of work and beating on the saws for minimal return. I think the market in Ct for air dried lumber is small. Live edge may be better but that’s pretty saturated, lots of guys selling that stuff already. And personally I used to do woodworking years ago but gave that hobby up. Biggest saw is a 462 which is capable of doing some small milling. It did get injured a couple years ago from a falling tree, had to epoxy a new bar stud in a damaged case. So far it’s holding but I’d be worried about the extra heat of milling melting that epoxy fix. Another option is a 661 Chinese clone saw. I’ll try the 462 sometime on some small project, see what I think of the whole ordeal before committing further.
I think a honey locust round I have left. When I split up the others I saved the biggest and longest just in case I ever wanted to mill it up. It’ll be a short log LOL
Great score. I could’ve used the extension cords, just opened a box from Amazon with my new extension cord in it. Couple days prior I forgot I had my trailer battery plugged in and drove away LOL Brain fart.
At least get your feet wet. Id rather mess up a short log than a good one with nice color/grain. It does seem like a lot of work though. I've never tried it myself.
If you buy a 661 I’ll let you come up and play LOL Only thing I really need milled are crossties for my pallet pens. I can’t see milling small boards like that with a chainsaw mill tho. There is one funky maple tree out in the woods that would make some interesting live edge boards. Even still if I were to cut that down I think I’d rather mill it up on a bandsaw, less waste.
I still have some left. Still have a few of the red oak milled too. And when I empty the pens this year I’ll get more back. Not exactly sure how many boards I have. I left them on pallets and the weeds/grass has grown up around them, my bad. In snake season I’m not wading into that tiny jungle for an accurate count LOL. That’s why I’m going to start cleaning things up. Take the time and do it neater. Start from the edges and clean inwards. Everything should be 8 feet from now on. All the different experiments are over, I have a system now. Can’t wait to use the new pallets, they’re gonna be sweet. Heavy but sweet.
It is for sure a lot of work. Then, after you get done, more work to get it all sticker stacked and then years of drying. Let me tell you from experience, honey locust is a birch to mill!! It’s the hardest, most dense wood I’ve done.
I almost forgot: my curbside free bandsaw from a couple weeks ago works sweet! It’s a perfect match to the free Craftsman radial arm saw I got a few years ago too.
