A Friend that I met through a former job sent me a pic of what appears to be a double live edge slab table today James and I were (he still is) “Flex Drivers” for Ryder, we weren’t assigned to dedicated accounts, but were sent to various accounts that were short handed. about 2 years ago we were both working the Advance Auto Parts account, and became good friends. He is actually from Florida, but for various reasons we had a surplus of work, and a shortage of drivers in the PNW, and James went where the work was, here in the Cesspool, I mean Portland. He actually enjoyed traveling for work. We haven’t worked together in about a year and a half, but we still talk every so often, he evidently remembered me talking about chainsaw milling. Today, I was leaving Prosser, WA when I got an attachment in a text message, just a pic with no text about it When I called to ask him about it, when he answered, he just said that they were in a “quiet zone” and that he would call me later, I haven’t heard back from him yet, but I am Dayum curious to know where he saw this table, and what the dimensions and story are about it. I will add more information about it, when I get it Naturally I thought about FHC, and I seem to remember sumthin about at FHC We LIKES PICTURES, so I thought I would share this with you, I would love to see that amazing table in person Doug
I haven’t heard from James, but to my eye, I’m guessing that table is about 7’ wide, probably close to 40’ long, maybe 35’, but my guess is around 40’ and probably about 4”, maybe a little bit thicker No MONEY Prize, but what are your guesses? I am assuming that he is somewhere near his home in FL, but I’m not familiar with the trees in that area, though it is possible that slab was transported some distance, my gut instinct says that it was likely cut and milled relatively locally Anybody have any guesses what kind of wood that might be Again, I don’t know how old it is (as a Table, or Tree) anyone want to make any guesses about that? Tell me what you think, and Hopefully James will be able to give me more information about the history of this table. It is Definitely a “One of a Kind “ Doug
Thanks for sharing. If I had to guess, that's a very old cypress from the swamps somewhere in northern Florida. I know to this day a few people still pull up old logs that sank during the heyday of cypress logging.
Something many of us here at FHC can appreciate. One of my wood customers took me to his neighbor up the street to show me some of his work and lumber. He had a live edge slab of beech that was 20' long and 4-6" thick maybe 3-4' wide. It wasn't being used for anything, but quite the sight as its very rare to see a beech/slab that size. Thanks for sharing Doug.
My guess is redwood as what other tree 100 years ago was 7 foot wide for 40’ feet straight without visible branch on it.
I did hear back from James, that table is at the McKee Botanical Garden in Vero Beach, FL, he guessed that it was about 6’ wide, and that he agreed it is probably about 40’ long and 5” thick, but he didn’t see anything giving details about it. They joined the botanical garden so they can go back whenever they want, he said that he would try to find out more about it the next time they visit, but yeah, he immediately thought of me when he saw it It had been awhile since we had caught up with each other, so we had a lot of other things to catch up on, but I will share any details as I get them Doug
