Found Some Old Doug Fir
I was talking to my neighbor a few weeks back about my mini-mill revision I had been working on, when he asked me if I would be interested in some Douglas Fir boards. So I'm thinking he's got a few 2x6's maybe 2x8's that he wanted to get rid of. Then he said they were slabs, now my ears perk up. He says, 'they are about 9' long, 28" or so wide and 2-1/4" thick. Now he has all of my attention. He says I can have them or he's going to cut them up for fire wood.
So we head to his house and in his backyard covered up is nine slabs of Doug Fir that he was given 30 years ago and has has stored in his backyard. The person he got the slabs from parents, had passed away and he wanted to get them out of the yard. The story goes, his Dad had them milled ten years prior to his death to use as a floor in a barn to park his tractor on and they were never used. So we are pretty sure the slabs are at least forty years old. I have lived next to this neighbor for 25 years and never knew he had this wood.
Another member here, Bluerider is in need of some Doug Fir for building doors for his 80+ year old house. We have made arrangements to swap this Doug Fir for some Black Walnut the member has in trade. I'm going to keep one slab to build a bench, so Bluerider will get the remainder of the slabs and my neighbor will be getting some Black Walnut for him to make gun stocks, pistol grips and knife handles.
I cannot believe how good this wood looks knowing it was milled 40 years ago. Here are some pictures.
jerry-
The long slab in this picture is 13'6" long and the short wide board is 9' long and 38" wide. The slabs were pressure washed to clean the dust/dirt. Dry now.
Slabs after pressure washing yesterday.
Closeup of the grain.
View of slabs laid out drying.
Look at that color.
You just never know what you'll find in your neighbors back yard...:hmm3grin2orange:
I was talking to my neighbor a few weeks back about my mini-mill revision I had been working on, when he asked me if I would be interested in some Douglas Fir boards. So I'm thinking he's got a few 2x6's maybe 2x8's that he wanted to get rid of. Then he said they were slabs, now my ears perk up. He says, 'they are about 9' long, 28" or so wide and 2-1/4" thick. Now he has all of my attention. He says I can have them or he's going to cut them up for fire wood.
So we head to his house and in his backyard covered up is nine slabs of Doug Fir that he was given 30 years ago and has has stored in his backyard. The person he got the slabs from parents, had passed away and he wanted to get them out of the yard. The story goes, his Dad had them milled ten years prior to his death to use as a floor in a barn to park his tractor on and they were never used. So we are pretty sure the slabs are at least forty years old. I have lived next to this neighbor for 25 years and never knew he had this wood.
Another member here, Bluerider is in need of some Doug Fir for building doors for his 80+ year old house. We have made arrangements to swap this Doug Fir for some Black Walnut the member has in trade. I'm going to keep one slab to build a bench, so Bluerider will get the remainder of the slabs and my neighbor will be getting some Black Walnut for him to make gun stocks, pistol grips and knife handles.
I cannot believe how good this wood looks knowing it was milled 40 years ago. Here are some pictures.
jerry-
The long slab in this picture is 13'6" long and the short wide board is 9' long and 38" wide. The slabs were pressure washed to clean the dust/dirt. Dry now.
Slabs after pressure washing yesterday.
Closeup of the grain.
View of slabs laid out drying.
Look at that color.
You just never know what you'll find in your neighbors back yard...:hmm3grin2orange:
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umpkin2:
