MMMMmmmmmmmm.
Milling was one of those 'romantic' thoughts I had growing up. As a teen I attempted to make a set of skis out of a cedar log on a table saw. After burning the motor out, I let that thought rest a few years.
A few years became a couple decades and as an Arborist, this stuff became more reasonable a thought.
Now, years later, I am buried in the wood I so wished for through my earlier years, I have no more room to stack it, and I have 11 more logs ready to mill, sitting on someone elses property.
The other day I was looking at the logs, thinking 'Lucas Mill', even though Woodmizer has their world headquarters about 20 Km from my house and my sawyer is an engineer at woodmizer and does custom sawing on the weekends for a (bargain) $60 an hour with his LT40 super hydraulic.
Still, I had a Lucas demo'd to me 8 or 9 years ago and am still exceedingly impressed to this day.
Here's a couple pics, I was blocking up a cherry, got to feeling guilty once I'd gotten past the extensive base decay, the wood got solid, and then I approached the crotch. My 'woodworker past' headlocked my 'firewood maker present' and won. I sunk a plunge into the log with the three-foot bar and prepped myself for a whole lot of extra time, sweat and sawdust.
I was extracting the table top for Elizabeth earlier this week, her Birthday coming up soon. Unfortunately, she was wanting a coffee table, not a 300 pound dinner table. It was politely rejected. Now it's MY coffee table.
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