You’re going to want to do more than 1” because it’ll twist, warp, crook, kink, and bow. By the time it’s flattened there won’t be anything useable left. If you live in a place with eastern white pine. You can make seat blanks approximately 18x22” and get $100 each that’s probably the most lucrative thing to mill.
Interesting on the seat blanks. Is that a big market though? What type of wood do they use?
Today I mostly milled 2x4 and 2x6, yea I see what you mean about 1" but my oak isn't twisting too bad. I mostly just have hard woods and I mostly use 1, 1.5 and 2" for my projects. One of my neighbors says he just Mills everything in 2x6s so he can cut off anything if he needs something smaller.
I barely have much pine here, some but it grows tall and then falls over before it can get very big diameter. I wish I had more cedar and I'm hording what cedar I do have. It's mostly oak, black walnut but they are small and massive birch and some maple...
I have some really big oaks but they were all strung with barbed wire at some point so I can only use the top parts unless I want to tangle with metal.... This one I cut was one such log. Nice 24" diameter oak....
The seat blanket situation is a nieche but supply is low, I would pay $140 for good quality. But it sounds like you haven’t experienced enough failure quite yet. If I had a mill I would only cut 2.25 slabs or bigger. The wood movement might not happen until it leaves the state but it will happen eventually. For softwood I would cut 6x6 or bigger lumber and turn the corner pieces into firewood (less work more money) win win. The preferred wood for seats is white pine it’s eastern lumber.
Today I mostly milled 2x4 and 2x6, yea I see what you mean about 1" but my oak isn't twisting too bad. I mostly just have hard woods and I mostly use 1, 1.5 and 2" for my projects. One of my neighbors says he just Mills everything in 2x6s so he can cut off anything if he needs something smaller.
I barely have much pine here, some but it grows tall and then falls over before it can get very big diameter. I wish I had more cedar and I'm hording what cedar I do have. It's mostly oak, black walnut but they are small and massive birch and some maple...
I have some really big oaks but they were all strung with barbed wire at some point so I can only use the top parts unless I want to tangle with metal.... This one I cut was one such log. Nice 24" diameter oak....