Got wood?

[RoadKingLarry]

I posted about a smallish red oak I felled a few days ago.
https://armedpolitesociety.com/index.php?topic=68122.0



Yesterday I managed to get it sawn up into lumber with my Granberg Alaskan chainsaw mill. Chainsaw is a Stihl MS362 C-M with a 20" bar running Oregon ripping chain.
boards were slabbed out to a full 1" thickness
After getting it slabbed up I edged the boards with a circular saw to get the most useable wood out of them. A couple were left the full 8' length but due to the taper of the log a few of them I cut down to give me wider boards instead of edging the whole length to the width of the narrow end.
Got some nice medullary ray fleck on the quarter sawn pieces.
Got it stacked and stickered in my shed where it will be left to dry for 8-10 months before it will be suitable for use.

First cut


Slabbed up


Edged


zoomed in


Pile of sawdust


Nothing gets wasted. The top and bottom slabs and the pieces I edged off will eventually go inthe wood stove and the sawdust will be used in the garden.

[RocketMan]

Nice looking wood.  Do you have any projects in mind for it yet?

[K Frame]

Nice looking wood.  Do you have any projects in mind for it yet?

My guess is he's gonna give that wood to the wife...

[charby]

That's some killer ray flecks.

[K Frame]

That's some killer ray flecks.

I think I saw them in concert in... 1986?

[RoadKingLarry]

Nice looking wood.  Do you have any projects in mind for it yet?

Nothing specific. It'll be at least 8-10 months till it's dry enough to use.
I've got a bunch of Ash, White Oak and Cherry that is now a couple of years old that I need to use. Some of the White Oak and Cherry will be used on my sailboat for reworking some of the interior cabinetry this Spring.

After getting the shoulders fixed in 2020 I've been too busy playing catch-up to do much wood working
A few years ago I made up a handful of simple little folding tables like this out of some Southern Yellow Pine that my uncle had milled up for me.
This one isn't finished but it shows the design. All the screws were counter sunk and flush capped with dowels and the hinge parts were all made of oak dowels.

I gave a few away and sold a few at the farmers market I set up at.
I need to rework my prototype/design a little and make up some more out of Ash and Oak.

[Nick1911]

Man, that's real nice.  Great job saving that from firewood and spinning into a very usable commodity. 

Those Alaskan mills do get a little tiresome to run - but probably wasn't too bad on a cool day?

[cordex]

Those Alaskan mills do get a little tiresome to run - but probably wasn't too bad on a cool day?

I know a lot of people run winches of various types for their mills, but I saw a guy who used a couple of pullies to set up a gravity drag for his chainsaw mill.  Takes a lot of the work out of it.

[RoadKingLarry]

Granberg offers a winch kit add-on for their mills. I need to take a closer look at it and see if I can fab up something as functional and a lot cheaper.
With a fresh sharpened chain the saw will pretty much pull it through for you. On the hard woods I cut, even green, I get about 3 passes before it's time to sharpen.

[bedlamite]

Granberg offers a winch kit add-on for their mills. I need to take a closer look at it and see if I can fab up something as functional and a lot cheaper.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzjZ0qla_to

[RoadKingLarry]

I like Izzy's videos. He makes some neat stuff but I sometimes have to wonder if he is related to Rube Goldberg.
https://www.rubegoldberg.org/

[bedlamite]

I like Izzy's videos. He makes some neat stuff but I sometimes have to wonder if he is related to Rube Goldberg.
https://www.rubegoldberg.org/

Hey, everybody needs a cordless drill powered walking dinosaur skeleton!