Sawyer Rob
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I'm going to pour an approach in front of the man door on my shop one of these days, so i thought i'd make some stakes for the forms as i'm about out of them.
Every time i saw a log, there's always a board under the slab with a lot of wayne on it, so i started sawing out those boards at about 5/8" thick to make stakes out of.
First i rolled a red oak onto the mill and sawed the first slab off..
Once i had the slab off, i took one "stake" board off and turned the log.
With the log turned, i started over and took another slab off and also another board for stakes off.
You can see the stake boards have a lot of wayne on them, but sometimes like this one they can be pretty good quality and if good enough i put them aside for some other use.
Rolling the logs is very easy useing my mills "log loader/turner".
Check out the wood "rays" on this quarter sawn board!!
Here's what i got out of that log, you can see the stake boards on the left in the picture.
Now to make the stakes. First i used a curcular saw to saw all the boards to 40" length Once that was done i could take them in the shop and saw them again to 20" boards, and start edgeing them. Once edged, i ripped them into two boards and then split them again on an angle corner to corner.
Before you yell SAFETY to me, i took the guards off so i could get better pictures for you...
Here some of them ready to use! Hope you enjoyed the picts..
Rob
Every time i saw a log, there's always a board under the slab with a lot of wayne on it, so i started sawing out those boards at about 5/8" thick to make stakes out of.
First i rolled a red oak onto the mill and sawed the first slab off..
Once i had the slab off, i took one "stake" board off and turned the log.
With the log turned, i started over and took another slab off and also another board for stakes off.
You can see the stake boards have a lot of wayne on them, but sometimes like this one they can be pretty good quality and if good enough i put them aside for some other use.
Rolling the logs is very easy useing my mills "log loader/turner".
Check out the wood "rays" on this quarter sawn board!!
Here's what i got out of that log, you can see the stake boards on the left in the picture.
Now to make the stakes. First i used a curcular saw to saw all the boards to 40" length Once that was done i could take them in the shop and saw them again to 20" boards, and start edgeing them. Once edged, i ripped them into two boards and then split them again on an angle corner to corner.
Before you yell SAFETY to me, i took the guards off so i could get better pictures for you...
Here some of them ready to use! Hope you enjoyed the picts..
Rob