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Milled some stuff for a customer and he installed it in his horse barn. Finished it with used motor oil. Looks pretty good! Free finish, and recycled to boot.

Few things I’ve puttered around with: Some oak 2x8s for a future deck: Barn doors for a customer. Bench for my FIL. Box elder. First piece of wood I milled on my Woodmizer. Dad helped pay for it, so I named it after him. 👍😊

Ok, so I slabbed one log into 10/4, and did another at 8” wide, 1 3/8” thick, quartersawn as much as I could. I will stack it, strap it, and weigh it down as well and let it sit for a few years. We’ll see what happens!

So I have a few large/huge pecan logs. I slabbed up one into 10/4 thickness, but don’t know what to do with the rest. Thinner boards, more slabs, or firewood? Pecan is hard to dry straight, so I wonder if it’s better to dry thinner boards vs thicker slabs.

Necrothreadiac! 17 year old thread! I wonder what the OP ended up doing and how it turned out? I’m actually kinda wondering what I should do with a bunch of pecan logs. I’ve considered flooring boards. Would pecan be easier to keep straight while drying in thicker slabs or thinner boards? I...

Barn doors are finished and installed. Customer is a timber framer who said he didn’t mind if I built them with green wood. The shrinkage is already noticeable in the gaps, but I used lap joints to make up for that. Hopefully it won’t shrink too much more!

Pecan is pretty high on the Jenka hardness charts. Not many American species are harder. I've never milled Mesquite, though. How big does that get? I thought it was pretty small stuff. I mill mostly pin oak, silver maple, ash, cherry, and walnut, but have also milled white oak (as much as I...

I'm surprised anyone would say 'not bad' for pecan. I've milled it and regretted most of it. It tends to warp and twist fairly badly unless you have a LOT of weight on it. It's hard on tools and dulls things quickly, and is not easy to work with. Still, it can be pretty stuff, and may be...

Finished assembling this today for my Father in Law. Oak. Not fully dry. Will seal it next year

Walnut junk boards with a hickory branch. Poly on everything.

Good point. I did some work on a bit of wood that was a bit punky. In fact, my next post will show something that I normally would have used Rubio on, but went with poly because it would soak in and harden everything up. Epoxy would be even better, I would think.

GeneralKayoss - I'm pretty sure that's Silver Maple you have. The earlier stuff you milled looks a bit too far gone - lots of punky stuff there, but the later stuff looks great!

Barn doors are finished. I think he plans on painting them.

Finishing up a barn door for a friend. Showed him this pic and he then tells me doesn’t want a single 10’ wide door but two 5’ doors. Actually it’s not a problem. Most of the boards on the front aren’t fastened in yet.

Did one locust tree. Was not impressed. Every board had cup shake in it so bad I stopped milling and cut it all for firewood. But I would give it a try again if I get a log.

My daughter wanted to make these bookends for her sister, so we whipped these out in a day. Walnut with Rubio monocoat.

Tornado damaged trees are trouble! Assume the worst in everything. I have also received OSHA -approved training in disaster situations, and have a little card that says I am certified. That training was a joke. More harmful than helpful. A few hours of class on how to operate a chainsaw, and...

Wowza. $1,500 for a raw slab.

Hey, at least he’s honest about it being a clone!

You’ll never regret paying/waiting for quality. Get the SuperSplit.