Josh Holden
09-16-2008, 5:57 PM
Found a huge Ash trunk -- 4+ foot in diameter. Wasted a tank of gas in my 16" chain saw stabbing at it with nothing to show for it. Then found a disc someone with a much bigger saw had cut off, about 16" thick by about 5 feet across.
The tree services usually split most of the 2' and smaller trunks into firewood for sale, so the town ends up mostly with these huge ones. I have to admit, I get frustrated when I come across these giant logs, free for the taking, and can't even start to process them. (SWMBO draws the line at buying a sawmill, and the portable ones cant handle a 4' tree anyway.)
But this is a gloat, so onto the happy pictures :D
This picture is the top 1/3 of the disc, with my saw for scale:
97001
And after an afternoon of processing:
9700297003
These will be the first blanks I feed to the new 3520B... (one has already been turned, but since there's no pic yet, I can still use future tense :))
With a log this big, near the bark the "rings" look like straight lines. I had some minor panics when band-sawing, 'cause it looked like I had the grain in the wrong orientation on all the bowls until I figured it out.
Josh
The tree services usually split most of the 2' and smaller trunks into firewood for sale, so the town ends up mostly with these huge ones. I have to admit, I get frustrated when I come across these giant logs, free for the taking, and can't even start to process them. (SWMBO draws the line at buying a sawmill, and the portable ones cant handle a 4' tree anyway.)
But this is a gloat, so onto the happy pictures :D
This picture is the top 1/3 of the disc, with my saw for scale:
97001
And after an afternoon of processing:
9700297003
These will be the first blanks I feed to the new 3520B... (one has already been turned, but since there's no pic yet, I can still use future tense :))
With a log this big, near the bark the "rings" look like straight lines. I had some minor panics when band-sawing, 'cause it looked like I had the grain in the wrong orientation on all the bowls until I figured it out.
Josh