Eric Porter
09-04-2006, 11:07 PM
I hope everyone had a wonderful Labor Day Holiday. I can tell you I sure did. My family and I traveled to my folks house in Knoxville, TN and had a wonderful visit. On Sunday afternoon I noticed an ad in the local paper offering cherry lumber for sale. I called the number and spoke with a farmer who had a local sawyer cut up some logs he cleared for pasture land. As far as dimensions, he said it was "pretty long", "mostly 4/4 but some thicker", and "some as wide as 10 inches".
Below are the pictures of what I found and brought home. The reason for the title of the post is that my wife is willing to let me bring home as much lumber as I want as long as I can still fit the kids and our luggage in the van. She's is wonderful, but prefers to call me a tool collector rather than a wood worker, and with this trip she's also begun referring to me as a wood collector.
As you can see our Honda Odyssey is more than up to the task of hauling a load of lumber home while still allowing plenty of room for our stuff.
First pic is of the three cherry boards that I picked up. They were too long to fit in the van so I lashed them to the luggage rack. Two are 12 inches wide and one is 10 1/2. All heart wood, the differing colors are due to the rain.
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This is a pic of the other lumber packed in the van. Is that cherry...? Nope, he just happened to have some walnut as well.
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There was a hidden gloat in the bottom right of the last picture. This is a pic of the inside of the Dewalt case. My brother who lives in a rough part of town found this case stashed in his landscaping one night. We assumed it was stolen but discarded because it was missing the batteries. It just so happens that I have several 18v Dewalt tools so I will be putting these to work.
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This is a picture of the walnut that I picked up. Two 12 inch planks, one 10 inch plank, and one 8 inch plank.
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The final pic is the one I am most excited about. It is 12 inches wide, 4 inch es thick and almost 9 feet long. More than enough for a mantle or several monster table legs.
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Thanks for looking.
Below are the pictures of what I found and brought home. The reason for the title of the post is that my wife is willing to let me bring home as much lumber as I want as long as I can still fit the kids and our luggage in the van. She's is wonderful, but prefers to call me a tool collector rather than a wood worker, and with this trip she's also begun referring to me as a wood collector.
As you can see our Honda Odyssey is more than up to the task of hauling a load of lumber home while still allowing plenty of room for our stuff.
First pic is of the three cherry boards that I picked up. They were too long to fit in the van so I lashed them to the luggage rack. Two are 12 inches wide and one is 10 1/2. All heart wood, the differing colors are due to the rain.
46184
This is a pic of the other lumber packed in the van. Is that cherry...? Nope, he just happened to have some walnut as well.
46185
There was a hidden gloat in the bottom right of the last picture. This is a pic of the inside of the Dewalt case. My brother who lives in a rough part of town found this case stashed in his landscaping one night. We assumed it was stolen but discarded because it was missing the batteries. It just so happens that I have several 18v Dewalt tools so I will be putting these to work.
46189
This is a picture of the walnut that I picked up. Two 12 inch planks, one 10 inch plank, and one 8 inch plank.
46186
The final pic is the one I am most excited about. It is 12 inches wide, 4 inch es thick and almost 9 feet long. More than enough for a mantle or several monster table legs.
46188
Thanks for looking.