00juice
ArboristSite Operative
A little more info, and an additional pic or two. This was a really nice day of milling. Perfect weather. Good people. It was me, paul, my brother jim, Paul's brother Al and Paul's friend Ken. The butternut was a week or so away from being burned to make way for the a new sewer line. So, we figured we'd better get it taken care of. We cut a total of 8 slabs, 2" thick by 8 feet long. We also cut four short 4" thick slabs from a piece that was only about 30" long. There was a 3 way crotch that was cut to a slab 7" thick. It is about 6 feet long. It will definately be made into a single table for the cabin. And we had (2) 6' 14" diameter crotch pieces that were each cut to give us a total of (6) 2" slabs. The three way crotch is really nice. Although, it was a pain in the butt. The 36" alaska CSM was not big enough to cut it all the way through. So, we started from the butt, and cut as far as possible. Then we came at it from the the left side of the top end. Then we came at it from the right side of the top end. Finally, we took a Chainsaw freehand to it to clean up what we couldn't reach with the CSM. It really turned out pretty well. the grooves in it from freehanding are not any deeper then 3/16" at the worst. When it's dry, nothing a big old hand plane won't take care of. We coated all the ends with anchorseal, and stickered to dry. It seemed the anchorseal we put on some other logs about three weeks ago, really seemed to soak in. We went back and coated again. I can't wait to get a chance to start using this stuff for some furniture projects. The grain in all of these logs is nothing short of absolutely beautiful. The pictures do not show it justice. There are some short (6-7')cherry logs lying around in the 12" diameter range that we will try to get to soon. My auxillary oiler worked ok, but it was difficult to get it to flow because of the viscosity of the stihl bar oil. Any suggestions to improve the flow of the auxillary oiler? Do you guys think it would be ok to take these larger slabs (2"-7") thick to a kiln in the spring, or do they need more time to dry outside? Thanks for reading.
Brian
Brian