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I bought this lot of walnut, about 400BF in total. The guy who sold them to me was a log cutter and pulpwooder. He cut this tree down, had a local sawyer process it, and he air dried for about 15 years. About 230 BF are these slabs in the photos. They are in such good shape, I mean they would finish square over their 12 feet and still be close to 4 inches thick. I was pleasantly surprised to see what I had when I cut the ends off of them yesterday. No wonder they have hardly moved! These were flitch cut from the core to 16/4 thickness, so the whole beam is quartersawn grain. I dont have to capacity to resaw, not my bandsaw nor my back. I have a sawyer friend who will cut them with me on his woodmizer. I just dont want to cut all of them at once to only find that I actually need more 8/4 than 6/4, and I didnt make enough legs, etc. I have some ideas of what I am going to do to economize this wood. But I would like to hear what the sawyers and fellow woodworkers would do for their projects?