Sunday’s task, cedar… An older couple I know had this come over in one of their fields. I cleaned it up for the wood, surprisingly there is no center rot.
You will need to bring the moisture content down before the lumber can be used. If air drying you need to allow 1 year for every inch of thickness. If you fail to properly dry you will likely end up with splitting and cupping.
Today’s task was hickory. I do not normally mill it and only do so if it is fresh cut due to its hardness. Got it cut up and most of it stacked and stickered. I milled it in 4/4, 5/4, 6/4 and 8/4 thicknesses.
The top had snapped out of this walnut so I decided to drop it and salvage the lumber. It is smaller than what I would normally harvest, about 22” at the base.
Finally had time to post. Sealed all the ends and milled up 2 of the big sections. There was a lot of tension in one log and it blew apart. Also got most of the limbs milled up. Cleaning out another old house to stack wood in.
Got the walnut down… I was able to get a strap around the dangling branch and pull it down. When I dragged it out of the woods the grapevines pulled down the other branch. Should be some interesting color in the broken top.
I had noticed this walnut over the summer with the top broken out. Decided to investigate, pulled out a branch that had come down and will drop the tree tomorrow. It measures about 22” at the base, smaller than I would normally harvest but I need to mill it before the top starts to rot. By the...
Today was sawdust cleanup day. I had been putting this off for a couple of months and the sawdust was up to the rails of my mill and packed around the wheels and axles. I loaded a trailer full for a coworker and will give him another load shortly.
My next door neighbor dropped this 12’ red oak on my mill last weekend. To say it is heavy is an understatement, it took 3 of us to turn the log. I milled some 4/4 and 8/4 slabs and finally had enough and pulled the last 4” slab off. I am getting buried by sawdust but I have a coworker who says...
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