Portable sawmill

Carl Racca 337-526-5506 He has done some work for me, and some other folks around the area.

I has some trees milled a couple of years.

I wish had specified the boards to be cut to consistent widths and thickness--perhaps even planed and ripped to size.

It was tough building a shed with that rough lumber but it does look good.

The boards came from some very large slash pines and the wood would bend nails as we nailed it up.

I had mine kiln dried. On the big boards there were some real differences. Sometimes a quarter of inch in thickness and a half in width.

I didn't do any small boards like 2x4s. I would suggest you cut no smaller than 2x6 or 1 x 6 and no bigger than 2x10.

I got a lot of big boards left. I had a bunch of 2x12 and they weigh a ton compared to modern lumber BUT I bet you my shed will out last me and my kids. It is so hard.

I sprayed it with Timbor and then put on a clear stain from Sherwin Williams with a 5 year warranty.

Those trees were old, old and had very dense grain. Bent nails when we built our shed from it. Shed is not square because of dimensional variances. It is hell to build with rough lumber.

Maybe rip to size and plane one side to adjust thickness?? You would still have one rough side.