ROBERT ELLIS
08-16-2012, 8:32 PM
239282239283My neighbor teased me about 6 weeks ago...he caught me loading my truck for arts/crafts festival and asked me if I would be interested in a Ambrosia Maple tree he had just logged. The second picture was the cutoff from the end of the log he was trying to sell me. As you can see it will probably be very streaked. Obviously I was interested so he let me take the cutoff to the show (I now use it at festivals as a conversation starter). I sometimes get more interest in the end cutoff than I do in my products! Anyway, I was originally just buying the first log but he kept finding more in the patch of woods he's logging, so finally he wound up with 981 feet total. The picture of the logs on the truck don't really show it but he said every log on the truck is just as streaked as the original.
The log yard where he took them my daughter's boyfriend (?) owns a woodmizer and will be sawing them for me.
From here on out it's going to be a love hate relationship. I can't wait to use them someday, in the meantime I'm dreading handling all the lumber, stickering, literally sweeping off each board (removing sawdust) to keep the mold down. If I can remember I'll try to take a few pics of the boards...
Thanks for reading,
Robert
The log yard where he took them my daughter's boyfriend (?) owns a woodmizer and will be sawing them for me.
From here on out it's going to be a love hate relationship. I can't wait to use them someday, in the meantime I'm dreading handling all the lumber, stickering, literally sweeping off each board (removing sawdust) to keep the mold down. If I can remember I'll try to take a few pics of the boards...
Thanks for reading,
Robert