Can of whoop ash and a mill =

P.S. Whenever/if you need help let me know.

 

This^^^. I'm definitely after the most crotch figure I can get.

 

haha, he said crotch

 

Wow looks good wolverine! have any closeups of the grain? Thanks for the pics.

 

I don't. We had snow on the way and I kinda hurried to get done what I did. We got about 5" or so but now we're in a deep freeze (low tonight 8 degrees). Not sure when I'll get back at it. When I sticker the stack, I'll get some pics.

 

I hear ya. Stay warm!

 

get on that!


Don't know if anyone has suggested it yet and you may well know it anyway, but,
I think you should have the layers stacked using "stickers" as it will aid in the drying process.

 

You and I are a little late to this party Dave, but I was gonna' say the same thing until I read post #25.
Don't forget to weight it down or strap it.

 

As you can see, my reading skills have not yet improved!!!

Thanks!

Yeah, late to this party is right...just not fashionably late! Always a bridesmaid, never a bride! (In this case, that's just fine)

 

Finished up the ash tree today. Glad it's finally done!
I did end up cutting it in 1/2. Here's some more pics.

It was just too heavy to rotate in any direction. So away I went.


In the crotch of the tree had some large black ants in it.

 

@ this point I was left with the base. Decided to try out my aluminum ladder for the first time, and failed miserably. I definitely wasn't screwed down good enough. I only had 3" drywall screws so I need to get better fasteners.

My next more was to mount my 2x and straighten up the top.



After this cut, I was good to go. Had to trim a little bark to fit the mill. I was @ a full 30" and a little more than 2" thick. damm heavy slabs!

 

After these, I decided to use the high lift jack and roll the log. I really didn't need such gigantic heavy slabs! I was pleasantly surprised with some light reddish color.

 

And I had 2 pieces of pine laying around and decided to slab them and throw them on the pile. They've been sitting in log form for almost a year now.

 

Beautiful work!

 

Wow, you've been busy.

 

Thanks for thinking of all us "arm chair millers" and posting the pics!

 

It's a ton of work. I have a soon to be 16 year old son to help me. He has the chainsaw bug like his pop. I just bought him a JRed 2150, so he's workin' off the debt I still have all the clean up to do. We did all the heavy lifting so I can do the light stuff while he's at school.

 

That's great that at 16 he still wants to help out.

 

My hats off to you sir. A fine looking pile of material. Just a hint for you on the rapid drying of the end grain.....because the end grain of lumber in a stack is pretty much totally exposed, it will dry much quicker than the rest of the material down the center. The result of that rapid dry could be some healthy splits. So when stickering, place stickers as close as possible to the ends of the stack and the stickers will slow the rapid drying and help minimize the end split.

I applaud your tenacity of spirit in slabbing this big ol' bad boy with an Alaskan mill. By the way, the rest of the stickering is great. Nothing worse than lumber dried with stickers stuck improperly though. If you ever get stuck with a bad sticker job, you too will become a stickler on sticking stickers.....

Sorry....