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40 years ago at S. Umpqua River's Milo Academy (7th-day Adventist) they used locally-sourced alder for their furniture factory; it was very nice stuff.

40 years ago at S. Umpqua River's Milo Academy (7th-day Adventist) they used locally-sourced alder for their furniture factory; it was very nice stuff.

My Grampa was US Forest Service 1908-1948 in several southern Idaho National Forests; one of his stories had to do with the Government harvesting Black Locust seeds from mature stands, then disbursing those seeds to all of the field stations with the mandate to plant them so that new stands of...

Here's my latest; home-harvested and CSM-slabbed Claro walnut dried three years; planed using bridged router then corrected small faults with epoxy resin then many sandings and finished with Minwax Helmsman spray-on; goes in my daughter's new back-patio (down by the creek).

10 degree implement from Timberline I'm pleased with the 25-degree first edition; seems to have cleaned up the errors I made using grinding-wheel and Dremel burrs. A recent email from Timberline says v/v the 10-degree mod: "It is in the works but we don't have the 10˚ available yet"

I have killed powder-post beetles in maple and walnut slabs by wrapping them in black visqueen and placing them out in the blazing sun, turn every few hours to raise the temperature to 140 degrees F for several hours; no more beetles. I don't know about your "woodworms", but my method might...

better slow down -- find a mentor; $2k is not peanuts a 3120 is a lotta saw for a beginner, will eat yer breakfast; once ya slab that oak there's a couple of years of drying before you plane it off and have the material for the table; (unless ya can access a kiln) ; read all of this forum --...

I tried it. Got a 4-ft bole from a neighbor's "red gum" tree-removal; end-painted because it was very wet; within a week the ends were checking badly; went ahead and slabbed it anyway; end-painted each and stickered and bound them to a steel bed. Another two weeks and the slabs were riven by...

I am trying Smith's Clear Penetrating Epoxy Sealer on years-dried Big Leaf Maple and Claro Walnut; followed by multiple coats of Epifanes spar varnish -- intent is to get tough, UV-resistant coat on the beautiful wood. Am waiting for the test of time (out in the sun for several hours per...

If you're talking about two-part pour-on resin, I tried it on a partially-dry red oak slab for a quickie bar-top; it lasted for the party but began to blister when out in the sun and was soon a mess; hadda belt-sand it away to let the slab dry for another two years -- then it was dry enuf to...

Wait a while I cut a California Walnut out of our creek and CSMed it into 3-inch slabs 12-to-14 ft long (very heavy); dried it with stickers under tin roof for 3 years to make "Claro" out of it. Then used 13-inch surface planer to remove chainsaw washboard marks from a 10x3x75-inch portion of...

I have successfully milled California Red Oak, Bigleaf Maple and Hind’s Walnut (Claro), mostly at 10/4 and air-dried under tin roofing for 2-3 years; then router-planed (if wider than 12”) or thickness-planed (if less than 13” wide) to produce flat stock at 8/4-or better. Then went after...

look at homemade logosol on post about milling large logs

another idea: make the saw-on-a-jack stationary and next to a trackway (maybe even bolted/welded to the edge of the gorilla rack; put the log on trollies on the track to be pulled onto the saw (instead of putting the saw on the trolly)

take a look, maybe you can build it?

K.I.S.S.

I made a "horse" to support my Alaska mill over short chunks of walnut to make cheeseboards; cut on diagonal to avoid the splitting that happens with cookies.

yes, olyman, my grandson did the countersinking for the flange bolts and the handles; this rig has seen several mods -- up-sized to take a 36-inch bar and has a nose-guard; next project is to slab a cedar log for a bench along the Chetco River

there are as many ways as there are craftspersons; my take in the pics

A bit more on Will Reading of Will Malloff's passing prompted me to look further (a Russian-named British Columbian hinted "Doukabor" to me); sure enough, he was one of the Spirit Wrestlers -- read more at http://www.spirit-wrestlers.com/excerpts/Inquirer/People/Malloff_Will.html; and...