Fantastic wood. They call it wood porn
This web site Talarico Hardwoods was on an e-mail that I got today. It’s a sawmill in Pennsylvania. Enjoy and drool.
The cutting of #391
You might be asking what is #391. It was referred to in You know you are a LumberJock by Yorkshire Stewart and it was item #391 The blog is here It was a Cherry Burl Log that was dropped off at my house. Today I went to a sawmill to get it cut up. All loaded in the back of the van. Sitting on the mill. The first piece cut off. A couple of cuts later. And a little later. At home. and another. Close Up of a piece. Stacked on the sawhorse. The pile ...
Portable Sawmills Thrive Across Nation
Across North America, small sawmill operators continue to grow in size. Larger mills are suffering from the current slump in the housing market and instead of increasing production as in the recent past they are cutting back affecting the industry as a whole. Timber demand and harvesting has dropped creating opportunities for the expansion of the smaller portable sawmill operations. These mills, most of which are new small business start ups grown of woodworkers and tradesmen are growing at s...
SAWMILL LOCATER: Find a Sawmill Near You
I have been building a database of sawmills and put it together as a Sawmill Locater where you can search by state to find sawmills that provide custom cutting services and sell specialty lumber. Locate a mill near you or many will ship lumber if you find they have access to exotic or hard to find species you might be interested in. Please follow this link to search by state: http://portablesawmill.biz/concrete
This week in urban logging #12: It's been awhile since my last report (but I came back with pictures)
I like crotches. I like milling them, I like making things with them. Some one dropped off this “crotchy” elm the other day. The butt log is kinda a big devil. So I cut one off to mill. I was a little bummed because I see 2 hearts, which usually means less figure/ more bark inclusion… I had to trim it abit to get it to fit the mill for width (more on that later) First slab looks decent. 28” wide…not bad for a bandmill that is advertise...
This week in urban logging #1: Storm damaged tree milling (picture heavy)
I have not milled all the trees that were dropped off here after the severe weather we have been having the last couple weeks (some days I cannot mill because of heavy rain). I thought I would start a blog series about what goes on around here at the mill. I will add to it as notable urban logs come in. All these pictures are stuff I have milled in the last 7 days, weather permitting. Just a few shots of the pieces I found interesting/different. Unusual white oak, very colorful grain and ...
This week in urban logging #11: Fruits of my labor
I showed a pile of walnut logs in my last blog. Now I will show the pile of lumber that came from it. This is the FAS pile. I have another pile that is lower grade. There is 750 bft of just gorgeous lumber here, almost “perfect”. 8”-12” wide and 8’-10’ long boards. I grade sawed all this out. I am not exaggerating when I say if I cut all the “defect” (any small knots or sapwood) out of this whole pile it would all fit in a 5 gallon bucket !!
This week in urban logging #4: Milling others yard trees (custom sawmilling)
I am so far behind right now I am not milling others logs, I have too many of my own to do. I am just politely turning down the work and hoping not to offend with the explanation I do not have time. I may be all summer getting caught up. I did mill a notable one (4 actually) this morning for an old friend. His father had to remove this cedar tree that was too close to the house and they are planning an addition. The tree had to go. It came here and I milled it for my buddy. He was hoping to &...
This week in urban logging #13: Still milling, just not blogging much...
But I thought I would take the time to show a couple pictures. I got a call from a buddy of mine who takes care of a local cemetery asking if I wanted an ugly log they had been pushing around in the mud for a month doing an expansion. I asked what is it. He said “It’s just an old elm, but it has alot of forks like you like (crotches) and bumps all over it that look like big strawberries with twigs growing out of them (burls)” So maybe my buddies don’t know the terminol...
This week in urban logging #6: 2 blogs in one week (big log, be careful what you wish for)
Here is a follow up from earlier in the week. I started milling some of the logs from that blog. I currently have others I am getting backed up on (too many oaks and honeylocust) but am low on cherry so I decided to mill some of it. Turned out very nice, small but nice.!!One 12 foot log milled and ready to be moved to the drying stacks I really got a great stack of almost perfect cherry boards. I am pleased. (400 bft ? and did not mill them all yet) The walnut like I said was a little s...
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