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Milling your own lumber
Posted on 3/20/22 at 9:51 pm
Posted on 3/20/22 at 9:51 pm
Have a bunch of water oaks and bald cypress that got knocked down after Ida that still look to be pretty solid. Anybody have any experience with an alaskan saw mill? Would like to try one out to do some furniture and other projects. The portable saw mills (woodmizer etc.) are really neat but also pricey. Is there any decent literature on these types of mills as well as south LA tree species?
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Posted on 3/20/22 at 10:54 pm to Pouldo26
All well and good to use your lumber from your damaged trees, but do you have the room to store them to dry?
Air drying lumber stick stacked is a long process, especially in our climate of high humidity.
Then once it's dried, do you have the tools to mill this wood true, and planes big enough to finish the boards and turn it into useable lumber for finished projects?
Oh, and if you do decide to do this, be sure to paint the end grain of each slab when you stack it to dry to help limit splitting as the wood dries.
Air drying lumber stick stacked is a long process, especially in our climate of high humidity.
Then once it's dried, do you have the tools to mill this wood true, and planes big enough to finish the boards and turn it into useable lumber for finished projects?
Oh, and if you do decide to do this, be sure to paint the end grain of each slab when you stack it to dry to help limit splitting as the wood dries.
Posted on 3/20/22 at 11:09 pm to Pouldo26
My father had an Alaskan…. Drove him nuts trying to make decent cuts. He sold it and bought a Woodmizer.
He hasn’t had much better luck with that. LOL
He hasn’t had much better luck with that. LOL
Posted on 3/21/22 at 8:51 am to Pouldo26
Look up router sled on youtube to plane larger pieces of lumber.
Posted on 3/21/22 at 11:02 am to Pouldo26
I paid a guy with a portable saw mill to come cut up some live oaks after Michael. It was money well spent.
Posted on 3/21/22 at 1:09 pm to Pouldo26
Drying depends on where your going to use it? outdoors or in a climate controlled interior.
Posted on 3/21/22 at 3:07 pm to Pouldo26
I bought the harbor freight one and had good luck with it. Pretty fun hobby actually.
Posted on 3/22/22 at 9:26 pm to Pouldo26
Wow we are doing some wood stacking in Natchez. I moved here 4.5 years and just put together a small dehumidification kiln. I have dried about 2000 bd ft and I think I can really make decent lumber. So far I have had someone with a portable sawmill cut for me. He charges only.35 a board foot. Buuut I ordered and am waiting on stihl’s largest saw 881. I am getting a granberg mill in both the 48 inch and the 70 inch model. I will give an update when I get this put together. I have possible 60 plus inch cypress stumps and a huge 60 inch diameter white oak to mill. I will let you know how it goes. For logs 30 inch and under I will call Craig Forman to slice and dice. Much cheaper and I know better quality for dimensional lumber. You need a real saw for a real Alaskan mill I feel. I have access to a lot of different wood doing it this way. Drying as stated above is the key to real lumber
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