woodshop said:
yes interesting... how do you get the log up onto the table? Do you have some way of holding the log stable, like a dog here or there, or does the guide kinda keep it steady?
Nice redcedar. My whole house smells of that stuff as we speak, as I was in woodshop working with it all eve. Curious how much it goes for out there. It's about $2.50 a bd ft here in PA, but hard to get good quality clear stuff.
Woodshop, Most of my ceder logs taper after 3 to 4' allot, So I'm going
to be doing allot of short logs and load them by hand. I'm going to buy
or make something like a beam machine that will run on it's own set
of rails. where I can slab the log, turn it and slab the next side and so on.
I'm thinking about using deck screws, run up through the bottoms of
the 2x4 cross pieces of the table to hold the logs in place.
A good friend of mine owns the local hardware/lumber yard, So I have
less than $35.00 in the table. The I-Beam are 12' long and where returned
form a job that ordered the wrong size. Another one of my BIG IDEAS
is to get 4 more of them and make a carriage type mill, with a angle iron
track for when I start mill the bigger stuff. I have allot of White oak
, Walnut & Cherry but thats down the road.
Back to the ceder do you mill your own ceder (Eastern Red).
If so how long should it dry?
Does it dry faster than say White Oak?
Your cracker holders (which I really like) What do you use (finish) on
the ceder, since it is used for food stuff?
Thanks, Gary