Just signed up on here and it looks like a great forum.
Unfortunately, I have as close to zero wood skills as a person can get.
However, I do have a whole bunch of large logs from a monster redwood my wife had cut down a few years back at her property in Mill Valley, CA but never did anything with the wood. I’ve been told that they are 100 to 115 year old second growth logs. 8 to 12 foot long. Wood from 800-1000 year old, old growth redwood tree.
Her father passed away about 4 years ago, and left her a little cabin in the woods. It’s a beautiful little property, but it had this enormous 200 foot tall tree looking like it was going to fall, so she had it taken down. But now we have all this beautiful wood and no skills to utilize it.
Because this property was her fathers and is where she and him used to spend their summers together all through her childhood, it is a very special place to her. So I wanted to somehow find a way to give her a memory of the place.
I would happily give away the wood to one of you talented folk, in exchange for a bit of furniture or something similar made from the tree in return. I don’t know if this is a good deal, but we were told that the logs we have would be worth tens of thousands of dollars. However, we don’t have the money to mill it or anything like that, so this is my offer.
I hope someone is interested in this, or if not, could point me in the right direction as to what to do with these beautiful logs.
Tim … first off welcome to LJ’s … i might humbly request that you put up your point of origin in the headline. Im assuming youre on the west coast, you may want to contact Greg from Oregon Burls. Hes got the gear to cut stuff like that and from the interactions here, a good guy to boot. Somethings screwy with my computer but if you search oregonburls here im sure his name will pop up .. hes a member.
Good Luck!
-- "there aren’t many hand tools as awe-inspiring as the #8 jointer. I mean, it just reeks of cast iron heft and hubris" - Smitty
Im sure your will find a sawyer for your redwood. You never know, theres a lot of people that would really really enjoy a slice of that lumber. I was watching a chainsaw carving show on the history channel or something and they were carving old growth redwood, apparently its well revered in that type of work. If i remember correctly the piece sold for 150k.
Some other ways to find sawyers is woodfinder.com You can input your zipcode and select sawyer from the list of options.
-- "there aren’t many hand tools as awe-inspiring as the #8 jointer. I mean, it just reeks of cast iron heft and hubris" - Smitty
Hi Tim, and first of all welcome to LumberJocks. Great source here! If you would like to give me a call I would be glad to talk to you about it. 541-450-9499 greg@oregonburls.com Thanks Greg
-- Greg, Southern Oregon, www.oregonburls.com What can I say but God Is Good!
I know there are a couple of people with small or portable mills out in West Marin, when I lived in Lagunitas there was a guy who was by the general store there regularly when I walked down for coffee.
I’m up in Petaluma, and if I had the equipment to mill this I’d jump on a “take my wood, give me some furniture” chance, but I lack both that and the place to store the lumber while it dries (I think the ballpark for air drying is a year per inch).
Redwood, If you head up US 1 to Dogtown just before the Bolinas turnoff, there’s a sawyer Robert Buckenmeyer, who cuts urban timbers. I’ve seen Robert mill 4’ wide, 4” thick slabs more than 12’ long. He’s also a very talented artist and woodworker.
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