You Know You Love Wood When....

[Ga_Boy]

You glue your logs back together so they are long enough to mill.....

One of my customers found some Cedar along side the road.  It seems the power company guys cut it before he came along.

I was able to mill one of the logs, it was about 4 feet, but the other two were jut too short.

Well, being determined, he glued the two shorts back together and brought them back.....


Here is the  picture I was sent to see if I could mill it.




Here is the log bunked and ready to mill




Here is the log opened up




Here is a close up of the opened log




Here is one of the three 8/4 slabs we got out of this one








Mark

[Part_Timer]

I've glued up a lot of small pieces of lumber to make a project but I've never glued up firewood to make lumber :D

Good on ya for cutting it for him.


Tom

[getoverit]

I think I've seen it all now  :D Gluing up firewood to make logs  :D

Man, thats really wanting some cedar, aint it?

I know, I know..... after all that effort, ya just HAD to cut it up  _grin

[Fred]

How bout some oak walnut maple log? Looks like he did a good job gluing it togather..
                        Fred

[GF]

First time I have seen or heard of that.

[Todd]

And I thought I was having a hard time getting logs... ;)

[Snag]

I think the same principal would work around these parts.  Only difference is, we use duct tape.....

[jpgreen]

I thought that was just a west coast thang..  ???

[treecyclers]

You know you love wood when...
...You live in the desert and the cactus start looking pretty good for milling!
...You see a tree on the golf course with a burl on it, and start scheming........
...You see the local firewood hoggers with a load of larger stuff and your trigger finger starts ta itchin!
...A tree over 24" at the base makes you drool!
...a tree company in Phoenix calls with a 36" eucalyptus in July...and you SERIOUSLY consider it!
...Your girlfriend breaks up with you because "logs are more important to you than I am!"
...You'd rather have a 24" log on the mill than pancakes for breakfast!

Now, I KNOW that y'all have other good ones!
Care to share?
8)

[Tom]

I'm interested in hearing about that spiffy Timber king you have. 

[getoverit]

Or when a good friend in Indiana says he has some HUGE osage orange trees for free, and all you have to do is come cut them up and haul them off??

I dont even know what osage orange is, but I gotta admit that I was tempted to go cut a few and haul them home to Florida just to find out  :D :D

[JimBuis]

If you'd gone to Kirk's place in Indiana, you'd have been looking awhile..................he's in Illinois.

Osage Orange or hedge as we call it in that neck of the woods is some of the hardest stuff around.  I've seen hedge fence posts just four inches around that were stuck in the ground over 50 years ago still holding a fencing staple with pieces of fence still hanging there long after the fence had turned to dust!!   And that was with no creosote or any of that chemical stuff.

I wish I had been there.

Jim

[TexasTimbers]

 :D :D :D

Y'all beat me to it. After I stared reading the thread I thought to myself "well this is a no-brainer for me to say ... ' You know you love wood when you leave Texas full of Bois' D Arc to drive to Iliinois to cut Bois D' Arc!' "  :D  :D  :D