What are you building with your milled wood? merged

[teatersroad]

Yes, this area is a mix of prairie, forest, and canyons. Wildfires and a harsh climate make it difficult for trees to establish except on the shady north slopes.

Livestock will stomp and eat pine seedlings, so few trees will grow unless you fence out the livestock. The ranchers constantly bulldoze small trees and shrubs to make room for more grass.

I've planted over a thousand tree seedlings on my property, but it'll be another decade before they show up in the photos.

I may have already posted these pics ?

A neighbor's back yard, looking across the head of Getta canyon

View from my back yard. The trees on the horizon are the forest where I go woodcutting.

Nice timber frame and nice landscape. Traditional for there and here. I know the Imnaha country pretty well, The Cat's Back and the Divide, Zumwalt, probably spotted you from Buckhorn even. Got's blood on that land, and I miss it.

 

[Timberframed]

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White Ash table top.

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It's flat..very flat. Like a girl I...no never mind..you get the picture. Army of vintage sanders.

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I would have been done long before this but the hired help?

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Out of Ice cream Dad? Get someone else! I'manna take another nap!

 

[mtngun]

Beautiful table top, Timberframed. Is the table for your own use, or for a paying job ?

I'm still plodding along on the woodshed. 2nd floor will be stick built but since I had a few 6x6 posts laying around, I figured I might as well incorporate them into the project.

These were the very first posts I'd ever milled, and some of them are a little banana shaped, but I'll make them work.

BTW, my woodshed was inspired by free barn plans that I found on the North Dakato State University Website.

 

[Timberframed]

Paying job! Long boring tree story behind me now. Mtngun, ya'll going to need some rafters here before the snow starts flying. Wish I could help but you're way out over there. Frame looks good and never mind those bananas, the whole world is full of curves. Unlike a girl I...well you know what I mean.

 

[BobL]

Nice work guys . . . . . good to see someone is being productive.

TF: That table top is looking good, are you able to lift in on your own?

Mtngun: that barn sure looks like a fun project.

 

[Timberframed]

BobL, It weighs somewhere around 350 lbs. I can handle them alone. Have 17 more about this size. Just have to be careful and smart about it. You know. Doing it the hard way with double fisted 11.5 amp 60 grit belts with one of the smaller slabs.

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[BobL]

I presume you are going to dock the end of that slab otherwise you'll be there a while getting rid of that cup?

Or maybe you woods are soft enough to do it with the 60 grit alone?

 

[Timberframed]

Actually the couple I'm doing the work for want the cup and irregularities. I'm just grinding off what the saw chain left behind. And yes I'll be cutting 18" off the end you see getting past a split. I'm glad for that. I need all the firewood I can get. Or make!

 

[BIG JAKE]

Looks good Mtngun-nice and square..strong too. I too, would like to help if I was closer. Hope we get treated to one of your analytical quantifications of how much money you actually saved/made, by milling your own lumber(with this project). The time will come when you'll be able to stand back and say "I made this out of wood that would have otherwise rotted away, and turned it into something beautiful". Hard work, sweat, but it's paying off! Work sure and carefully up there off the ground and stay safe!

Beautiful table top, Timberframed. Is the table for your own use, or for a paying job ?

I'm still plodding along on the woodshed. 2nd floor will be stick built but since I had a few 6x6 posts laying around, I figured I might as well incorporate them into the project.

These were the very first posts I'd ever milled, and some of them are a little banana shaped, but I'll make them work.

BTW, my woodshed was inspired by free barn plans that I found on the North Dakato State University Website.

 

[mtngun]

Hope we get treated to one of your analytical quantifications of how much money you actually saved/made, by milling your own lumber(with this project).

I figure the woodshed alone paid for the CSM and milling saw. If I had built the woodshed with storebought lumber, the cost of lumber would have been easily over $1000, maybe several thousand. It would have been smaller and it would have used a lot of OSB. Just not the same as using big timbers and sturdy rough cut lumber.

 

[Grey]

Oak flooring

Ice storm knocked down 2 beautiful red oaks in my woods. These were up off the ground for about 2 yrs. Then we bucked and milled them into 1255 bf 4/4, stacked, stickered, air-dried 3 mo, kiln dried 1 mo, milled into random width (3",4",6") T&G, ripped out crappy carpet, laid in 750 sq. ft. (3 rooms + 2 hallways) of flooring with about 200 bf of rough-sawn 4/4 left over.

 

[sachsmo]

WOW nice stuff there.Is that a Morton pole barn?

 

[Grey]

I don't know. The barn was built by the former owner. We sure love it, though. It's 24x32 with a poured concrete floor!

 

[sachsmo]

Did you tongue and groove that? You do nice work Welcome to the site 2 years 2 posts. Guess you have found a better way to spend your time.

 

[Grey]

I had a local custom millwork shop do the T&G and another local mill do the kiln-drying. Thanks again for the complements. My wife and I were really proud of how this came out. She actually did at least 1/2 of the installation with me.

Yeah, I've got way too many hobbies, so I don't spend much time on this site. I just came across this thread by accident this morning and I read all the posts, start-to-finish. I love wood and woodworking!

 

[DRB]

Nice to see a log start to finish.

Nice floor to.

 

[Grey]

Thank you. I wish I would have taken pix of the logs as they lay in the woods, before we bucked and dragged them out. It's the only thing I forgot to document. So be it...

 

[curlybirtch]

Beams and Braces

Built a barn out of mine. Cut the trees down on the land, got everything I needed to build the barn except the plywood and shingles from the roof and the cement for the floor. Mortise and Tenon......fun project.

 

[curlybirtch]

one more almost finished pic

Almost there

 

[mtngun]

Excellent craftsmanship, CurlyBirtch.