I got an email from my new buddy Jim yesterday. He has some red oak that just came out of the kiln and has been planed. I went out this morning with my Nissan Altima, rear seats pre-folded down.
Jim cuts his own trees on a 17 acre spread, or has tree services drop them off. He has a mill in his front yard, one of those $60.000 units.
I left with 8 boards, 5 of them measuring about 10 foot by 8 to 15 inches wide and 15/16 thick. three of the boards are under 6 foot but they are magnificent. The longer boards have some holes, the knots loosened in the kiln.
Whole thing cost me $66.
Its now in the basement next to the walnut I got from him a couple weeks ago.
Thank you Jim. I don’t know what I’d do without you.
He has more walnut coming out of the kiln in a couple weeks. I think I’ll try and be first out there so I can get my pick.
-- Failure does not stop me, it makes me try harder..... because I'm crazy.
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pintodeluxe
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#1 posted 405 days ago
buy more at that price!
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ssnvet
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#2 posted 405 days ago
You mean you actually know someone who makes their own wood?
How do they do that?
;^)
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Had one on sight and tended for the guy years ago when I built my house and it was a lot of fun. Hot, heavy work… but fun!
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RussellAP
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#3 posted 405 days ago
pintodeluxe- I would if I had a place to keep it. I need to get off my butt and put up that shed I have sitting in the box in my driveway. lol
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RussellAP
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#4 posted 405 days ago
ssnvet- His place isn’t pretty, he has the mill out in the front yard, and a converted garage filled with the biggest tools I’ve ever seen. There is a kiln in the corner that looks to be about 15 foot long by 5 foot high and about 7 foot wide. His planer has got to be 3 foot wide, and an electric feed sander that could take a 4 ft sheet of wood.
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David Craig
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#5 posted 405 days ago
Can’t beat that price for kiln dried and planed. I can get good prices on air dried and rough if I buy 100-200 BF from a sawyer not far from me. As far as pretty goes, I have seen some unbelievable work come out of some very crude houses. I met one guy on a business trip to Baton Rouge. He had a beam in the middle of the living room holding up a sagging ceiling. He would craft beds and adorn them with sand casted medallions and finials. The work was incredible but I didn’t like staying in his house for long. Not because it was dirty, I was just worried that the upstairs would turn into the downstairs on top of me. :)
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patcollins
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#6 posted 404 days ago
LOL @ David, best mechanic I know has car parts strung all through his house. His wife left him because of this, he went to make me up a bill and had to move some pistons from his kitchen table LOL
derosa
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#7 posted 404 days ago
Really nice price for kiln, I get that on air dried and I still have to do the drying.
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a1Jim
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#8 posted 404 days ago
hey Russ
What’s the moisture content of the oak you bought?
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RussellAP
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#9 posted 404 days ago
It was dried to 15% or lower. Of course what ever the ambient humidity is at the moment as well. It rained all day yesterday.
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