Drew Pavlak
08-19-2010, 12:29 PM
Hello all,
The last 5 weeks have been rather good to me for logs. My dad, brother and I talked to a local farmer in the area and he let us take a good sized Black Walnut from a wooded lot that had falled in a wind storm a couple of years ago. The tree was still alive, but layed over on it's side. Then power company came through and clear cut some stuff down the road as well. Needless to say we have some logs to saw up into lumber.
A friend of my Uncle has a Norwood Lumbermate 2000 that needed some work, so my dad is working on that and then we get to use it to saw up the logs for free, maybe the price of a couple of blades. Here are the pics of the logs we have currently.
For the oak logs what would be the best use of the lumber? I am getting mixed responses when reading on the internet. Some swear by QS, others just flat sawn, because you get some QS and some FS and some RS. Seeing how I will be doing the sawing myself the only thing I will be out is time. Should I QS the whole thing?
For the walnut I have heard just Flat Saw it. I am fine with that. The next questions I would have would be on Dimensions and from what part of the log. If you want som 8/4 lumber, should it come from the middle of the log as you are sawing it or doesn't it matter.
I realize I got pretty lucky here and I would like to make the most of the lumber. Any advice anyone would like to offer would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Drew.
PS. The two models in the pics are my daughters Live(6) and Sam(3). Livi is about 45 inches tall.
The last 5 weeks have been rather good to me for logs. My dad, brother and I talked to a local farmer in the area and he let us take a good sized Black Walnut from a wooded lot that had falled in a wind storm a couple of years ago. The tree was still alive, but layed over on it's side. Then power company came through and clear cut some stuff down the road as well. Needless to say we have some logs to saw up into lumber.
A friend of my Uncle has a Norwood Lumbermate 2000 that needed some work, so my dad is working on that and then we get to use it to saw up the logs for free, maybe the price of a couple of blades. Here are the pics of the logs we have currently.
For the oak logs what would be the best use of the lumber? I am getting mixed responses when reading on the internet. Some swear by QS, others just flat sawn, because you get some QS and some FS and some RS. Seeing how I will be doing the sawing myself the only thing I will be out is time. Should I QS the whole thing?
For the walnut I have heard just Flat Saw it. I am fine with that. The next questions I would have would be on Dimensions and from what part of the log. If you want som 8/4 lumber, should it come from the middle of the log as you are sawing it or doesn't it matter.
I realize I got pretty lucky here and I would like to make the most of the lumber. Any advice anyone would like to offer would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Drew.
PS. The two models in the pics are my daughters Live(6) and Sam(3). Livi is about 45 inches tall.