(A proud member of The Firewood Hoarder’s Club, LTD) There can be different levels of addiction, lets discuss. 100 to 300 bdft = social sawyer 300 to 600 bdft = log-a-holic 600 to 1000 bdft = lumber-hoarder 1000 to 1500 bdft = BDFT possesor 1500 to 2000 bdft = SLA (saw log addict) 2000 to 3000 bdft = FTSJ (full time sawmill jockey) 3000 - 5000 bdft = stickering PSYCHO. 5000 - 10000 bdft = Goodbye HOME DEPOT 10000 bdft - up = Sawmill KING Welcome to The Lumber Hoarder’s Club! Any claims to membership title must of course be accompanied by pics, or it didn’t happen. Show us your stacks!!!
Here’s my hoard - around 3000 bdft I figure. I tried to get all of it in this pic. Everything in my garage anyway. I haven’t been able to park in there for over 2 years now. 16 footers - some black locust 4x6 on the bottom, 4/4 ash, and 8/4 pine on top of that. The unstickered stuff on top is ash 8 and 10 footers. I need to shuffle those in to a couple of the other stacks. 10’s and 12’s, 6/4 maple, 4/4 cherry and ash, 8/4 tulip poplar. 8’s and 6’s, maple, cherry, and ash again. Tucked in behind that is my CSM’d lumber, mostly 4x4s and 8/4 live edge slabs. The tall stack of shorty slabs against the wall is some amazing curly English walnut from a tree at my sister’s house. She also had a 4’ diameter black walnut taken down and I got a ton of lumber out of it.
For those of us, like me, who have no clue. Definition of board foot: a unit of quantity for lumber equal to the volume of a board 12 × 12 × 1 inches —abbreviation bd ft
We have been burning mostly lumber as spring just won't spring around here. The pallet place put out a whole pallet full of 1x6 droppoff that were about 14 inches long. Makes for purrfect buring, and our wood ring is full meow. Meow.
So that’s around .5 bdft apiece... 36” pallet? You could get 9 bdft per inch height... 2’ high stack would be around 216 bdft... That should put you around “social sawyer” to “log a holic”. Welcome to the club! Just one thing tho....
I got another pallet out in the garage that still needs chopped, so I guess I am firmly in the log-a-holic category. I can't live without logahol.
Black Walnut.. 34 boards .75" x 84" of various widths. Not sure how many bdf is there. Plus a couple of center cut pulp planks.
Shawn Curry Picked up a few more today. Had to put outside garage is full. I now have 212 of the 12 inch wide and 174 of the 14 inch wide. All slats are 3” wide and 1/2” 5 slats per pallet. The 12” are 72” long and the 14” are 75” long how many board feet is that?
I drug these beauties out yesterday and thought it would just be a shame to cut them into firewood. Free to any of you millers out there. Just like HD studs.
In all seriousness, there's a nice burl in another (standing) w birch, I'm wondering if it would be something that a "turner" might be interested in. I just don't know if birch has any desirable characteristics.
Now that is one thing I'd like to try before I'm too buggered up to move. I've been liking and looking at portable sawmills for a few years now. I really can't justify having one though. So, until then.....
Here's a couple. I lost a lot of lumber picts to the evil photobucket. Some tulip poplar and chestnut oak.
