> Your universe has no meaning to them [niggers]. They will not try to understand. They ... will make a fire with your beautiful oak door...
Jean Raspail, "The Camp of the Saints"
Jean Raspail, "The Camp of the Saints"
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I have noticed that spicy literature, if available on Amazon, has exorbitant pricing - this book is >$450 there and $16 elsewhere. A calculated effort, no doubt.
1/4 saw that oak. You’ll get better quality lumber and slicing through the medullary rays produces better figure. $$
Just not at that level yet. I've mostly been cutting it to 1 or 2" thickness then cleaning it up on my table saw.
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....
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.
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I was using a chain saw mill and that was easy to setup, but each cut took FOREVER. Like 15 minutes per side. And you had to sharpen the chain every few cuts. Took forever...
The band saw mill is the total opposite. A lot of setup, making sure the track is straight and level, making sure the blade is aligned right. Moving the log around on this platform, etc... but each cut takes just a few minutes. Once you get faster at this you can cut up a log in under an hour.
> The hurricane dropped a ton of pine on my property
Seems like you have about a year max to start cutting it before it might start rotting. Oak can sit for a long time but pine you want to cut pretty soon. Or at least cut the ends of the tree and maybe paint the ends so it will last longer without splitting much.
Get one man, you wont regret it...
I am using a log arch with a winch and another winch to get it on the platform. Peavey for turns. No tractor in my setup yet... and I think with the winches I can handle some pretty big logs...