I've already got some of them, don't want more lol! 6 bucks isn't bad though. I prefer these, thicker steel in the rachets. But they aren't on sale
Nice, I really like the stake box on that old Chevy!
We used Ash at a friend’s house for flooring came out real nice ,he used it as decking on the covered porch also
Yeah that's an issue in my drying racks, the HL sapwood from a big yard tree that fell over is FULL of powder post holes. I'm rethinking having all my (30ish cords) wood in a big continuous U shaped rack....
The brother of the guy I worked for had Ash boards arranged diagonally on on wall on the inside of his house. Simply beautiful.
I like your live edge stuff. How did you mount that shelf unit to the wall? Screws though the 2x4s into studs?
I hung the shelves from a couple rings I screws into the back of the risers. The pillory is for when my wife gets out of line. JK, made for a Halloween decoration.
Would buy some Timbor and spray them all. https://www.amazon.com/Tim-bor-Professional-Insecticide-Fungicide-1-5/dp/B09M2GHBBC Mostly I've found they've favored edge slabs, I've never had much problem with them trying to invade everything even when edge slabs have been riddled with them.
If it's a 24" mill then you'll only be getting about 18" max width cut out of a 24" bar so not too much worry about overtaxing it on an occasional basis. I did a bunch of my milling with my 64cc Makita w a 36" lo pro bar, and it's still fine. Yeah, everything is annoyingly specific to lo pro setups. You need an .050 bar with a 3/8LP nose sprocket - a lo pro bar - and a 3/8LP drive sprocket. But the real inconvenience is next to nothing is available in the US. Chainsawbars.co.uk has the greatest selection of lo pro gear in the world and free shipping to the US over $180 orders - and gets here super fast - but you have to not mind ordering from England. This is the proper whole kit - 25" GB 3/8LP bar, rim sprocket, and two Panther lo pro chains. https://www.chainsawbars.co.uk/product/snhds25-50wr-kit-2563cm-gb-lo-pro-milling-bar-kit/ It's more expensive than regular 3/8 but it's kind of niche stuff not produced on nearly the same scale is why. And if you only have one saw you want to do everything with, it's a small hassle switching out sprockets every time you want to go back to standard 3/8 gear. The other approach if you're not doing this a lot is just get 3/8LP ripping chain made up in the right links for your 24" bar - I could probably make up some to sell you - and run it on your regular 3/8 .050 sprocket and bar. It's the same link spacing, just different shaped drive links so it steadily wears out nose sprockets on a bar and drive sprockets by the slight mismatch. But takes awhile, and if it's just for the odd cant here and there, you could likely get away with it without much wear. You would not believe how fast you'll cut cants with it, that's the neat things about 3/8LP on a 60cc saw.
Thanks for your in depth reply. My current 20" and 24" bars are 0.063 just because that's what the saw came with. I have a Stihl 046 that I'm going to fix and mainly use for noodling and mini-milling. I was going to buy a 0.050 28" bar for that and use it on the mill without switching B&C. So Lo-Pro is out for now unless I really get into milling.
my neighbor borrowed my mill to cut some dead ash to make garden boxes. These things are huge and heavy.
Powder Post Beetles. They love Hickory, Pecan and Ash. Will attach sapwood on other species like Honey Locust and Walnut.
Gotcha, I figured it was probably them. Reading about them, I thought they were a little bigger than that but they look the same. Maybe they just emerged from something else I brought home. Who knows. I think (hope) it's under control now lol
So what thickness is good for cookies? The ones I cut ranged from 36" x 22" to 28" x 25" and I cut them 12/4. Could I go thinner?
