I posted earlier about the white oaks I took down this winter to make way for more sheep pasture. Today I picked up the freshly sawn green lumber. Most of the logs were quartersawn, and the sawyer said it came out even better than the batch he did for me last year. BTW, anyone want to come over tomorrow and help me stack it onto stickers? The board are at least 8' long so we can "social distance" while working. ;-) I'll get some pictures of the boards and grain and hopefully a tally, soon.
Great load of lumber and it fits on that trailer very well! My back is tingling just looking at that load. What a load of possible projects just waiting for the carpenter!!
I have no plans currently. I'm lucky enough to have more lumber than time right now. May wind up selling it once I get it air and kiln dried.
Looks like a pretty good load of wood. If it is all quarter sawn that should get some wood workers out there anxious to get their hands on it. You should do well.
Yes, more than I expected. I usually don't qs below 24" and I knew several of the logs were closer to 12-16". I'm very pleased and looking forward to unloading it and stacking it on stickers so I can see everything.
Unloaded, stacked and stickered. I wound up with ~600 bf of very clear, mostly quartersawn boards with really awesome rays, some nice clear flat sawn, five 4x4's 8-12' long and some fun 2-3" thick x 36" long slabs from the butt of the biggests log. I'm super pleased. Some or all of it will be for sale in the future, so let me know if you are interested. The blue arrow is the new oak. There is some older, longer poplar on the bottom of the pile.
Here's the slabs. This tree started life as a double trunker, but one died off and left only a swell at the lowest couple feet. I trimmed that off and had it sawn separately.
Thanks! I knew the two best white oaks would make good lumber. They were very straight and tall with basically no branches for 25+ feet. I threw in a couple smaller chestnut oaks, too since I had to drop them anyways. The guy who has been milling for me lately really does an awesome job. He actually uses the "reverse roll" method when quartersawing, so every board is perfectly radial. It's super fussy and time consuming (read expensive), but this way every board has the very best ray patterning. Traditional qs is faster, cheaper and wastes less, but you wind up with a mixture of radial boards with good fleck and rift boards with straight grain but no fleck.
