A new purpose for my Saw

[Jere39]

Today, I took a break from my firewood splitting, hauling, and stacking to help out a friend of my Son's. He is about to get married, and his future wife sent him off to get 42 12" round 1" thick wood disks. She wanted a rough bark, and a smooth grain. Can't think of much to do with Tulip Poplar, now I know of a perfectly good use for it:



Looks like my assistant, and future groom is just not quite into the importance and solemn duty he assumed for this mission into the woods:



On inspection, it looks like a perfect fit:



Just when you think you've maxed out the firewood cutting business, I found a new line of business. I understand the Wedding Planners set the price at $5/disk. Should net out to a little over $185/cord eh?

 

[zogger]

Interesting and fun! Cookie sales!

 

[Woodchucker Ron]

Quite the baker. Nice job. Looks like the poor young fellow doesn't know what he's in for.

 

[pennsywoodburnr]

I'm liking that woodlot of yours. What were those big trees behind you, ash? walnut? Like Ron above said, let him enjoy now before reality sets in. What part of PA are you in?

 

[Jere39]

I'm liking that woodlot of yours. What were those big trees behind you, ash? walnut? Like Ron above said, let him enjoy now before reality sets in. What part of PA are you in?

The big trees are all Oak, 90% are Red Oak, there is one dead White Oak way in the background with a red survey tape around it marked for near future felling. The smooth bark small tree right behind me is a Beech, there are plenty of them in my woods, still a vast minority of the trees though. Otherwise, there are Black Birch, but they never get as big as the Oaks.

Me, and my woods are on a hill top in the northern tip of Chester County. Looks like this from the air in the late Summer:

 

[cantoo]

Jere, I was given the same task by my now daughter in law. My tree of choice was wind blown down poplar. We cut about 30 cookies from a 16" tree and set them in the shade to dry. 1 week later every single one had split all to crap and were unusable for her. The splits were from 1/4" to 1 1/2" all the way across. I ended up making center pieces from 10x 10 old barn beams. Drilled 4 holes at 2" and set glass candle holders in them and a 4" square in the middle for a flower arrangement. I also built the barnboard backdrop.

 

[Jere39]

Jere, I was given the same task by my now daughter in law. My tree of choice was wind blown down poplar. We cut about 30 cookies from a 16" tree and set them in the shade to dry. 1 week later every single one had split all to crap and were unusable for her. The splits were from 1/4" to 1 1/2" all the way across. I ended up making center pieces from 10x 10 old barn beams. Drilled 4 holes at 2" View attachment 324728 and set glass candle holders in them and a 4" square in the middle for a flower arrangement. I also built the barnboard backdrop.

Ouch, that doesn't sound good. Your Barn beams look good on the table though. I'm sure I'll get an update on the state of the cookies. The poplar cuts easy. I'll make an update here either way. Thanks for the heads up.

 

[betterbuilt]

A local mill around here makes things like that from Basswood. They don't seem to crack.

 

[Jere39]

I made some for my Daughter from Cherry more than 10 years ago for a school art project, and they still look great. I'll just have to wait to see how these hold up.

Thanks for the tips.

 

[ash man]

And I thought cutting cookies was just to see how the saws running.

 

[pennsywoodburnr]

The big trees are all Oak, 90% are Red Oak, there is one dead White Oak way in the background with a red survey tape around it marked for near future felling. The smooth bark small tree right behind me is a Beech, there are plenty of them in my woods, still a vast minority of the trees though. Otherwise, there are Black Birch, but they never get as big as the Oaks.

Me, and my woods are on a hill top in the northern tip of Chester County. Looks like this from the air in the late Summer:

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I'm not sure where Chester county is, but it sounds way west of where I'm at in Munroe. Forgive my horrible tree diagnosis there, the bark looked ash-like to me, but I'm bad with photos. I ran into some black birch early this year when a friend of mine was clearing out some land for a horse pasture. I had no idea what it was at the time, but I found it in my tree book eventually. I burnt through the last of that about 2 weeks ago. It throws out some nice heat! Dries quick too.

 

[Jere39]

Chester is South Eastern PA with a little bit of Md border, directly east of Lancaster County where I grew up. Touches on Delaware County, Montgomery County, and Berks County too.

 

[autoimage]

hey jere name is chris from Collegeville....if you ever need any help in those woods let me know

 

[Jere39]

Thanks Chis. I have a 30 year old, 6'4" 200lb son who trains for Adventure Triathalon and Mountain Biking. The kind of help I need is for some one to call him and suggest he go home occasionally and help his Dad. Otherwise, I am good. But thanks for the offer.

 

[Whiskey_Bravo]

I did the same thing for my wedding 3 months ago. My wife to be wanted red oak cookies for the tables with lanterns, flowers, candles, etc... We cut down an 18" diameter red oak, cut about 30 cookies that were close to 2" thick, dried them for 2 weeks, sanded them, and then applied 3 coats of polyurethane to the best looking 20. Everyone wanted to take them home after the wedding. We were left with almost all of the flowers and centerpieces, except for the slabs. I am just now getting reports of cracking.

 

[ash man]

Jered. Just tell your son cutting, splitting and stacking wood is the best exercise ever.

 

[cantoo]

Whiskey_bravo, don't you go posting in here near so much. I spent 2 hours "studying" Australian actresses the last time I seen your avatar. All I can say is if that gal was on my farm I wouldn't be scared to put 3 calves on her.