stihl_lyfe
ArboristSite Lurker
Hey guys, so am stepping up the sawmilling game, took delivery of a new bandsaw mill today.
This is after chainsaw milling 75+ slabs and wanting to make the job a bit easier, and also that the slabs sell pretty easy so won't take too long to pay the bandsaw mill back. Especially when a forester mate made me aware of a heap of thinned walnuts that could be had for extraction costs only. Here's one I chainsaw milled
And here are 50 more trimmed to length (~3m) stacked and ready to be picked up by self loading truck next week
Going to slab the lot to air dry and subsequently kiln dry in the solar kiln, so question - any suggestions on slabbing dimensions to allow max future versatility for making and selling dimensioned timber? Thinking commonly sought after dimensions for furniture making or other uses that will make selling easy, maybe ~65mm slabs for tabletops that could also be resawn to 25mm finished dimension floorboards but what do people think? This is not a pure commercial enterprise, primary motivation is to make some amazing timber for our own use/woodworking but obviously hobby has got a little out of control and at this volume some opportunity to sell a fair bit and make some $ also.
This is after chainsaw milling 75+ slabs and wanting to make the job a bit easier, and also that the slabs sell pretty easy so won't take too long to pay the bandsaw mill back. Especially when a forester mate made me aware of a heap of thinned walnuts that could be had for extraction costs only. Here's one I chainsaw milled
And here are 50 more trimmed to length (~3m) stacked and ready to be picked up by self loading truck next week
Going to slab the lot to air dry and subsequently kiln dry in the solar kiln, so question - any suggestions on slabbing dimensions to allow max future versatility for making and selling dimensioned timber? Thinking commonly sought after dimensions for furniture making or other uses that will make selling easy, maybe ~65mm slabs for tabletops that could also be resawn to 25mm finished dimension floorboards but what do people think? This is not a pure commercial enterprise, primary motivation is to make some amazing timber for our own use/woodworking but obviously hobby has got a little out of control and at this volume some opportunity to sell a fair bit and make some $ also.