Beautiful furniture! I was planning to QS it but I wasn't sure because it wasn't the greatest looking tree. It had some cracks and knots. Then, once I bucked it into logs today, the tree made the decision for me.
Here is some old growth Doug Fir I scrounged when I lived in So. Cal. I had friends who bought a house, had it torn down, and built their dream home on the lot. I ended up scrounging about 5 times this much. I ran some through my Rockwell Invicta planer. And am using them as ceiling beams in the house I'm building:
Here's what a ported MS461 sounds like with a 32" bar and full-comp square filed chain buried to the hilt in dead white oak.
dgeesaman (thank a million for the help and the photography) and I dropped this chestnut oak today, 29" at the stump and 26.5" dbh. I got a 16', 12' and a 9' log out of it. Probably quartersaw at least some of it. Loads of firewood in the top too. It was a dominant tree that had grown above the others and spread out it's canopy. Dave had already limbed out the crown before he took this picture. I'm getting closer to having a full day's work to justify getting a portable miller out here. A couple more and I'll be there.
I've finally figure out what to build with all of my lumber... an ARK! It has rained continuously all week, Now I just have to figure out the conversion from feet to cubits.
Just found this thread, I will have to take some photos and post later. I have about 6,500 board feet in my garage, another 2,500 board feet in my shed, about a thousand in a couple stacks next to the driveway, and another thousand in my basement in the actual wood shop. Mostly native + local ash, cherry, pine and maple, although I probably have 30+ species represented if you count single boards and slabs and things I bought (not milling goncalo alves or yellowheart anyways). So I'm approaching the "sawmill king" level even though I haven't owned a mill in about 8 years. I'll have to post a few pics of my old mill too - 1984 Wood-Mizer LT-30 manual mill. I cut over 40,000 board feet of lumber with it, to build my house and shed. I put a second floor on my garage just for the lumber storage, it's my plan to buy a new mill (probably a Woodland HM-126) and build furniture when I retire.