Milled some more Cedar today.

[dustytools]

I finished the yard chores early today and decided to mill up a cedar that I took down a while back. This log was 11 ft. long and 14 inches wide at the widest end. I milled it two inches thick. View attachment 51919

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[carvinmark]

I just love that red cedar.

 

[woodshop]

That's a nice looking cedar log... most of the cedar I get around here when I do, is smaller diameter, and often is not as strait and solid as that log. I did mill up some cedar in Jan, and it is dry now, in a pile in my garage, and walking even near the garage you get a good whiff of the stuff, I love it. Running through the saws and planers in the woodshop (my basement) smells up the whole house. Nobody complains.

 

[dustytools]

I agree Woodshop, The smell of Cedar at the mill or in the shop is very pleasing.

 

[oldsaw]

Hey Dusty, is that a 455 on that mill.... No, wait a minute, okay, sorry, I'm mistaken there. Carry on...

Mark

 

[dustytools]

Hey Dusty, is that a 455 on that mill.... No, wait a minute, okay, sorry, I'm mistaken there. Carry on...

Mark

No Mark, Sappy wasnt around today when I was milling this log.:greenchainsaw:

 

[zopi]

I think I will go buy a granby small log saw tomorrow...you have inspired me...I'd say my wife will be pissed, but I brought in a scavenged pile of still wet red oak last night fire the stove, and she was pissed because I couldn't get the trunk intact...:jawdrop:

she is right tho'...it had a pretty figure for red oak...


plus i know where there is some big blow down cedar...:greenchainsaw:

 

[OZDOG]

that's some very nice timber you got there thanks for the pics

 

[Adkpk]

Ummm, cedar. Nice pics.

 

[aggiewoodbutchr]

Hey Dusty, is that a 455 on that mill.... No, wait a minute, okay, sorry, I'm mistaken there. Carry on...

Mark

Them thar be fightin' words!:sword:


Nice work, dustyT

 

[tribalwind]

aromatic cedars my favorite softwood,!
and thats a really nice one. same goes for me regarding size, theyre kinda small form what i see around here.. ive found big white cedar though,

i recently started using soem cedar i salvaged for making woodturnings. i use to jsut use it for flutes but wow what a nice wood it is to turn. i made red cedar wine goblets ,bowls and magic wands at a craft fair i just did(took my mini-lathe) the demonstrations were a big hit,gotta do that again.

hey i love that guard-rail trailer ya got , genius
i see another piece up against a tree.what do you use that for?

also pretty cool that just those spring clamps on the L-bar on the log are enough to keep the ladder there,im surprised

nice stuff

 

[dustytools]

aromatic cedars my favorite softwood,!
and thats a really nice one. same goes for me regarding size, theyre kinda small form what i see around here.. ive found big white cedar though,

i recently started using soem cedar i salvaged for making woodturnings. i use to jsut use it for flutes but wow what a nice wood it is to turn. i made red cedar wine goblets ,bowls and magic wands at a craft fair i just did(took my mini-lathe) the demonstrations were a big hit,gotta do that again.

hey i love that guard-rail trailer ya got , genius
i see another piece up against a tree.what do you use that for?

also pretty cool that just those spring clamps on the L-bar on the log are enough to keep the ladder there,im surprised

nice stuff

The extra piece of guard rail is used to make a ramp up onto the trailer so that I can use a come-a-long to winch the log onto the trailer. I have to admit that the blue spring clamps were pretty weak and had to be readjusted a couple times during the cut. On the other end were some smaller spring clamps that held very well. Thanks for the replies everyone.

 

[dustytools]

Tribalwind, I would love to see some pictures of your turnings if you could post a few. Thanks.

 

[Semi-Hex]

It's amazing how many different types of trees can be milled into such beautiful lumber. Great job.

 

[BC_Logger]

I like working with cedar smells good too

 

[dustytools]

I had a smaller Cedar log left in the pile that I decided to mill up today. It was about 9 inches on the small end and about 12 on the wider end. I ended up getting three 2 inch thick planks from it. The last picture is the total score from the last 2 weekends of milling. View attachment 52286

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[Haywire Haywood]

Nice pics. The cedar around here that I've seen is small too, mostly 6" stuff and the bigger examples I've eyeballed have 2 small trunks instead of one main. I'm all out of bullets for ya Dusty... someone tag him for me.

Ian

 

[dustytools]

Thanks Ian. Ive got a few more good sized ones still standing. Maybe when your new 372 is ready we can drop one or two and mill them up.

 

[woodshop]

That cedar will dry quickly this time of year. Even 8/4 stuff won't take all summer. Not so with hardwoods like oak/maple/cherry... but cedar, most pine and also poplar I found do dry pretty quickly stickered like that out in the open in spring/summer. My 5/4 poplar I stickered last spring was dry enough to work with in 6 weeks. 5/4 redcedar like yours I stickered about a month ago is already down to less than 20%.

 

[dustytools]

That cedar will dry quickly this time of year. Even 8/4 stuff won't take all summer. Not so with hardwoods like oak/maple/cherry... but cedar, most pine and also poplar I found do dry pretty quickly stickered like that out in the open in spring/summer. My 5/4 poplar I stickered last spring was dry enough to work with in 6 weeks. 5/4 redcedar like yours I stickered about a month ago is already down to less than 20%.

One other thing that I have noticed about cedar is that it stays flat after it has dried and has minimal checking even when the ends arent sealed.