Let's see if I can do this, from post 22 in the "Mulberry" thread:
"I can't provide any pictures, but my father has a grandfather-style clock that his uncle made for him out of mulberry over 30 years ago. My great-uncle has been dead about that long. The wood is a golden yellow, as they say, rather like hedge. I have no idea what may have been used as a finish on it. It may have yellowed over the years.
My great-uncle had a circle saw mill and built a series of those clocks out of various types of wood grown on his farm and locally. All of the 2 x 12 floor joists in my parents' house were cut there from one cottonwood tree. As I remember, my dad had to split the log with a chainsaw (McCulloch, and heavy) to get it to fit through the mill.The sawmill was a sideline to farming, mostly wintertime, I think.
The mill got sold at his estate auction; I have no idea where it went, except that it went some distance. Now my dad is to where he either wants to buy a sawmill, probably a band mill, or get someone to come in with one. He is taking out some trees that we planted ~40+/- years ago. Black walnut and some pines. I'm going to start a new thread."
This is a shelterbelt that may have been a fence row once upon a time, but was widened and planted with the above-mentioned trees. There could be somewhere between 40 and two hundred trees, maybe, to come out. I really don't know. The forester recommended giving them another 20 years, but after a dry year, he has decided to remove them to let a center-pivot run freely through there. I haven't seen the trees for a few years, or that end of the farm either. It's just not the same as when I grew up there, These trees are about all that is left of the way it used to be.
My dad has always wanted a sawmill. He turns 88 this month. He says his mother always told him there were two things he should stay away from: carneys (carnival workers) and sawmills. He would not take any advice or suggestions from me; that's one thing I have learned over the years. My son and I, when we went up to visit last year for their 65th wedding anniversary, took an Alaskan and sawmill and offered to demonstrate chainsawmilling, and to invite my uncle and some other people who might be interested to see it. He wasn't real interested in the demo and didn't invite anyone over. We did it, but didn't really expect it would be something he should start doing, just thought some folks would be interested in watching it.
I know he doesn't need to buy a sawmill and start milling at his age; I'm not sure he would accept that idea. When I told my son that Grandpa was thinking about getting a sawmill, he said, "I could go up and help." Grandpa is in northwestern Illinois, we are in northwestern Georgia. Enough already. Post this thing.
"I can't provide any pictures, but my father has a grandfather-style clock that his uncle made for him out of mulberry over 30 years ago. My great-uncle has been dead about that long. The wood is a golden yellow, as they say, rather like hedge. I have no idea what may have been used as a finish on it. It may have yellowed over the years.
My great-uncle had a circle saw mill and built a series of those clocks out of various types of wood grown on his farm and locally. All of the 2 x 12 floor joists in my parents' house were cut there from one cottonwood tree. As I remember, my dad had to split the log with a chainsaw (McCulloch, and heavy) to get it to fit through the mill.The sawmill was a sideline to farming, mostly wintertime, I think.
The mill got sold at his estate auction; I have no idea where it went, except that it went some distance. Now my dad is to where he either wants to buy a sawmill, probably a band mill, or get someone to come in with one. He is taking out some trees that we planted ~40+/- years ago. Black walnut and some pines. I'm going to start a new thread."
This is a shelterbelt that may have been a fence row once upon a time, but was widened and planted with the above-mentioned trees. There could be somewhere between 40 and two hundred trees, maybe, to come out. I really don't know. The forester recommended giving them another 20 years, but after a dry year, he has decided to remove them to let a center-pivot run freely through there. I haven't seen the trees for a few years, or that end of the farm either. It's just not the same as when I grew up there, These trees are about all that is left of the way it used to be.
My dad has always wanted a sawmill. He turns 88 this month. He says his mother always told him there were two things he should stay away from: carneys (carnival workers) and sawmills. He would not take any advice or suggestions from me; that's one thing I have learned over the years. My son and I, when we went up to visit last year for their 65th wedding anniversary, took an Alaskan and sawmill and offered to demonstrate chainsawmilling, and to invite my uncle and some other people who might be interested to see it. He wasn't real interested in the demo and didn't invite anyone over. We did it, but didn't really expect it would be something he should start doing, just thought some folks would be interested in watching it.
I know he doesn't need to buy a sawmill and start milling at his age; I'm not sure he would accept that idea. When I told my son that Grandpa was thinking about getting a sawmill, he said, "I could go up and help." Grandpa is in northwestern Illinois, we are in northwestern Georgia. Enough already. Post this thing.
