Bill Brush
03-15-2011, 8:02 PM
In the time honored SMC tradition I'm posting a wood gloat, if only a little one. I found a local guy through Craigslist who logs mature trees around Nebraska and has them milled. He has too much to ever use so he's selling off his excess for tool money.
Anyway I bought just about 40 bd/ft of 40 year old air dried walnut for a mere $100. I literally could have filled my pickup 2-3 times over with what he had ready to use. Too bad I can just use my mortgage payment on wood.
186947
The nice thing is that the 4 big pieces are all milled from the same tree on successive cuts, so they match perfectly. I couldn't believe he was guesstimating the footage and "about $3.50/bd ft" but I wasn't going to complain when a single one of those big boards would go for about $80 at the wood store.
Anyway I bought just about 40 bd/ft of 40 year old air dried walnut for a mere $100. I literally could have filled my pickup 2-3 times over with what he had ready to use. Too bad I can just use my mortgage payment on wood.
186947
The nice thing is that the 4 big pieces are all milled from the same tree on successive cuts, so they match perfectly. I couldn't believe he was guesstimating the footage and "about $3.50/bd ft" but I wasn't going to complain when a single one of those big boards would go for about $80 at the wood store.