Tom Bussey
11-13-2022, 6:54 PM
The wood is Ash, the thickness is 1 1/16, and the width is 19". And I like building workbenches. The log was just over 17 foot. I gave the other half to the sawyer for his work. We loaded it on his trailer and took it to his mill about 3 miles away.
489773 489774
The next two are proceeds of a dead ash tree, which is not at the sawyers, yet to be cut up. We haven't worked out the details as of yet. The person sawing off the crotch isn't me. I will have to square the log the old fashioned way. I will have to saw to lines and then use wedges and a big sludge hammer because I do not have a broad ax. The old term is hueing to a line I believe. The diameter is 9 inches larger than his mill will cut. The split is only in the bark which we pealed of the tree
489775 489776
And the last two are of me and my wife not wasting any part of the tree. She is 76 and I am 77 and we split 100 % of what you see. People like to post pictures of their projects, and this is just a different slant on the long fall project. I will admit I like working wood but the last part did get a little old.
489777 489779
489773 489774
The next two are proceeds of a dead ash tree, which is not at the sawyers, yet to be cut up. We haven't worked out the details as of yet. The person sawing off the crotch isn't me. I will have to square the log the old fashioned way. I will have to saw to lines and then use wedges and a big sludge hammer because I do not have a broad ax. The old term is hueing to a line I believe. The diameter is 9 inches larger than his mill will cut. The split is only in the bark which we pealed of the tree
489775 489776
And the last two are of me and my wife not wasting any part of the tree. She is 76 and I am 77 and we split 100 % of what you see. People like to post pictures of their projects, and this is just a different slant on the long fall project. I will admit I like working wood but the last part did get a little old.
489777 489779