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New house - using wood from cut down tree
Posted on 6/19/16 at 1:27 pm
Posted on 6/19/16 at 1:27 pm
We're remodeling our house and will have to take down a big laurel oak to make room. We love the tree so we'd like to use the wood from the tree in some way in the house to remember it. It's big, 60-70 ft tall, 3-4 ft diameter.
Any ideas? Kitchen/dining table, chairs, accent wall covering, coffee table? Don't need a mantle.
Any ideas? Kitchen/dining table, chairs, accent wall covering, coffee table? Don't need a mantle.
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Posted on 6/19/16 at 1:33 pm to Sigma
Have you already got someone hired to cut it and a sawmill to cut it up for you?
Posted on 6/19/16 at 1:37 pm to Team Alpha Beast
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Have you already got someone hired to cut it and a sawmill to cut it up for you?
Yes, more or less. Anything I should pay attention to?
Posted on 6/19/16 at 1:42 pm to Sigma
It's going It's going to have to dry for 6-8 months. Then after its cut it will have to dry some more.
3'-4' diameter would make a nice bar/table top.
Lookup Matt Cremona on youtube, he cuts logs and make stuff out of them. Maybe you can get some ideas from him.
3'-4' diameter would make a nice bar/table top.
Lookup Matt Cremona on youtube, he cuts logs and make stuff out of them. Maybe you can get some ideas from him.
Posted on 6/19/16 at 1:45 pm to Sigma
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Yes, more or less. Anything I should pay attention to?
No, I like the idea just seems like it would be expensive to have someone cut one tree.
My parent's house is built completely (minus the roof) from trees cut and milled by my dad, grandpa, and cousin.
Every room is a different kind of tree. He has always taken a lot of pride in it.
Posted on 6/19/16 at 2:02 pm to Team Alpha Beast
Yeah, that sounds incredible.
We've got to take down two other large sweet gums, so this wouldn't be the only one. Cost is only somewhat of a concern. If we make a kitchen/dining room table it would last forever and be a conversation piece.
Besides, I've seen the prices for related things my wife has shown me...we may be saving money this way!
We've got to take down two other large sweet gums, so this wouldn't be the only one. Cost is only somewhat of a concern. If we make a kitchen/dining room table it would last forever and be a conversation piece.
Besides, I've seen the prices for related things my wife has shown me...we may be saving money this way!
Posted on 6/19/16 at 2:02 pm to Team Alpha Beast
All depends on what you looking for, but a tree that size will have about 600 bf of lumber in it.
If and when you fell it, make sure you paint the ends. That helps keeping log check under control. Also, try to get it off the ground ASAP. A 10' section of the butt log weights around 5K fresh fell.
Going price to saw per BF is about .60 or $60 an hour with a set X amount of hours.
Try to find someone with a portable mill.
Here is a link that might help you find a sawer.
LINK
If and when you fell it, make sure you paint the ends. That helps keeping log check under control. Also, try to get it off the ground ASAP. A 10' section of the butt log weights around 5K fresh fell.
Going price to saw per BF is about .60 or $60 an hour with a set X amount of hours.
Try to find someone with a portable mill.
Here is a link that might help you find a sawer.
LINK
Posted on 6/19/16 at 2:10 pm to Sigma
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We've got to take down two other large sweet gums
Don't waste your money. Gum is big time crap and almost impossible to get a straight board out of them.
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Besides, I've seen the prices for related things my wife has shown me...we may be saving money this way!
If just sawing, yes, you will pay less then 60 cents a BF. Throw in the cost to have them plan, which you can buy a planner for $300. Air drying, one inch boards take about a year.
Oh, I would have it quarter sawed.
This post was edited on 6/19/16 at 2:20 pm
Posted on 6/19/16 at 2:34 pm to Sigma
Make a kitchen or coffee tables. Make sure it is as dry as the inside of your house, or you'll end up with some gaps
Posted on 6/19/16 at 3:21 pm to Sigma
To dry properly it takes An inch a year make sure this is done properly or the wood will be shite don't try and dry it too fast wood will be shite if it's not stacked and stickered it will be shite
Posted on 6/19/16 at 3:55 pm to Hammertime
yes I would have it cut to make a table or better yet a bar as long as it doesn't have voids or hollow spots. I have quite a few huge laurel oaks and the two I've taken down both were pretty hollow but they were very old
I would also find or sprout a sapling of it and plant it in another spot
I would also find or sprout a sapling of it and plant it in another spot
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