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Started making bent hardwood trees straight
Have straight ones in spruce for the horizontal members.
Posts is what I am making this week from sassafrass but only squaring up two sides with the big chain and the straight edge. Cutting them six inches thick and debating on square post or lumber. Lumber for perins or braces should be ok I would think. I don't believe they will make good beams, rafters or joists.
Next up is spruce and Douglas fir. The spruce has tight small knots and will make fine beams. Saved three clear 16"x17' spruce trees for the best stuff. Nice straight sticks. Most of the fir is over 14" most is closer to 20" across from 8.5 to 14'0 long. A few super fat base sections 3ftx8ft. Also have two sections of hundred year old white pine at my house. The sections are 13 and 11'. 26" to 36" on the big end. Large knotty tree trunks. Little clear wood.
What to do with it now the sap has stopped moving after three months?
Then there is the red cedar and plenty of it to. 6-20' 4"-32"
Slabbed a tree foot by half a foot just to get that good smell on the trailer and it was very dry dusty wood to mill. The fat sections should be wetter. The old figured wood I stored wet on the ground in the shade. Was checking out the new stuff from last months fresh pile.
Slabbed up a few large colored spalted white maple Ys to 32"x 32". They look nice. How much do half rounds of bowl blanks bring?
I have rounds up to 24". Have a lot of spalted maple to get through this summer.
Then this log of white cedar pops up. 14 and 19' sections. Not sure what to do with it. Averages 14" round.
Maybe cut straight edges for the big mill to take with me? Ideas?
The flitches will get used for new bait cars, old school style, from the bay-men of the past.
Have straight ones in spruce for the horizontal members.
Posts is what I am making this week from sassafrass but only squaring up two sides with the big chain and the straight edge. Cutting them six inches thick and debating on square post or lumber. Lumber for perins or braces should be ok I would think. I don't believe they will make good beams, rafters or joists.
Next up is spruce and Douglas fir. The spruce has tight small knots and will make fine beams. Saved three clear 16"x17' spruce trees for the best stuff. Nice straight sticks. Most of the fir is over 14" most is closer to 20" across from 8.5 to 14'0 long. A few super fat base sections 3ftx8ft. Also have two sections of hundred year old white pine at my house. The sections are 13 and 11'. 26" to 36" on the big end. Large knotty tree trunks. Little clear wood.
What to do with it now the sap has stopped moving after three months?
Then there is the red cedar and plenty of it to. 6-20' 4"-32"
Slabbed a tree foot by half a foot just to get that good smell on the trailer and it was very dry dusty wood to mill. The fat sections should be wetter. The old figured wood I stored wet on the ground in the shade. Was checking out the new stuff from last months fresh pile.
Slabbed up a few large colored spalted white maple Ys to 32"x 32". They look nice. How much do half rounds of bowl blanks bring?
I have rounds up to 24". Have a lot of spalted maple to get through this summer.
Then this log of white cedar pops up. 14 and 19' sections. Not sure what to do with it. Averages 14" round.
Maybe cut straight edges for the big mill to take with me? Ideas?
The flitches will get used for new bait cars, old school style, from the bay-men of the past.