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General Forestry => Sawmills and Milling => Topic started by: POSTON WIDEHEAD on December 04, 2017, 11:53:17 AM

Title: What’s the Answer?
Post by: POSTON WIDEHEAD on December 04, 2017, 11:53:17 AM
A guy called me just now.....
He wants me to get a dry log out of my yard.
He wants a 6x6x8 Pine to make 2 table legs.
He wants to get out as cheap as he can.
He just wants a straight 6x6x8 post from a dry log.
Since he's tryin to get out as cheap as he can he does not want
anything fancy or spectacular.

What does a straight, fancy, spectacular 6x6x8 look like from a dry log?  say_what
Title: Re: What’s the Answer?
Post by: Savannahdan on December 04, 2017, 12:07:23 PM
Surely you told him that he'd need at least 2 of those since most tables have 4 legs. :laugh:
Title: Re: What’s the Answer?
Post by: goose63 on December 04, 2017, 12:29:51 PM
have you been giveing him purple drank???????????  :D
Title: Re: What’s the Answer?
Post by: paul case on December 04, 2017, 12:45:18 PM
You should tell him that ''Tha Goat Aint Got Nuttin That Is Straight!''

PC
Title: Re: What’s the Answer?
Post by: Darrel on December 04, 2017, 12:46:19 PM
Just get that old log that the goats have been climbing on and tell him it's the best you have.

:D ;D :D :laugh:
Title: Re: What’s the Answer?
Post by: Chop Shop on December 04, 2017, 12:48:46 PM
Quote from: POSTONLT40HD on December 04, 2017, 11:53:17 AM

What does a straight, fancy, spectacular 6x6x8 look like from a dry log?  say_what

Looks like $300, don't it?
Title: Re: What’s the Answer?
Post by: Resonator on December 04, 2017, 12:56:12 PM
Give one of the sticks you stack lumber on. That shouldn't be to fancy or spectacular. :)
Title: Re: What’s the Answer?
Post by: terrifictimbersllc on December 04, 2017, 01:44:19 PM
Tell him you don't dry out logs because the ratio of tangential to radial shrinkage isn't pi.   :snowball:
Title: Re: What’s the Answer?
Post by: WDH on December 04, 2017, 04:00:06 PM
The answer is that it is a waste of time  :D. 
Title: Re: What’s the Answer?
Post by: drobertson on December 04, 2017, 05:55:25 PM
I don't know, I've dealt with similar in the past, and there are some older dryer logs tucked back.  Its amazing what a 10" log can produce in regards to a 6x6.  It sounds like he is either going against a wall and just needs two, or, he is making a heavy duty coffee table kinda thing,, either way, sounds like a quick wack and hack job, at least to me, I reckon this old goat eats more briars than the Carolina goat,  Oh, I forgot,  sorry, you are a Clemson goat, ;D
Title: Re: What’s the Answer?
Post by: Peter Drouin on December 04, 2017, 06:34:20 PM
I would just grab the first log in the pile make his 6x6 and sell it for what you get for a 6x6x8.
Title: Re: What’s the Answer?
Post by: POSTON WIDEHEAD on December 04, 2017, 06:40:34 PM
On his table one side is connected to a wall.

Says he gonna turn 2 legs out of the 6x6.

I did exactly what Peter said and charged him $30 and went back to catching up my orders.

All in all a Spectacular day.  :D :D :D
Title: Re: What’s the Answer?
Post by: Peter Drouin on December 04, 2017, 07:08:30 PM
 smiley_thumbsup :D :D
Title: Re: What’s the Answer?
Post by: barbender on December 04, 2017, 07:42:24 PM
Is that figure missing a zero?😁
Title: Re: What’s the Answer?
Post by: 4x4American on December 04, 2017, 07:49:59 PM
Some ppl... I sold a lady two 16' pine bartops 1 live edge.  I guess she figures that a live edge means the bark is still attached.  I splained it to her that the bark usually falls off esp on a summer cut log...live edge just means its not ripped straight in da edger..  I told her to try and staple or nail the bark on...  Well shes missing the bark in a few places so she emailed me asking if she could come over and get a bag of bark lol..I said sure theres plenty of bark lying around maybe you can find what you're looking for.  If she asks me to cut the bark to fit the 3" bartop I'm gonna have to do all I can to contain myself lol
Title: Re: What’s the Answer?
Post by: barbender on December 04, 2017, 07:53:31 PM
 :D :D The bark whisperer ;D
Title: Re: What’s the Answer?
Post by: Peter Drouin on December 04, 2017, 10:01:51 PM
4x4 I tell the customer I have only sell live edge, not natural edge.
Live has no bark
Natural has bark. I don't sell Natural.  ;D
Title: Re: What’s the Answer?
Post by: Percy on December 04, 2017, 10:48:28 PM
Quote from: 4x4American on December 04, 2017, 07:49:59 PM
Some ppl... I sold a lady two 16' pine bartops 1 live edge.  I guess she figures that a live edge means the bark is still attached.  I splained it to her that the bark usually falls off esp on a summer cut log...live edge just means its not ripped straight in da edger..  I told her to try and staple or nail the bark on...  Well shes missing the bark in a few places so she emailed me asking if she could come over and get a bag of bark lol..I said sure theres plenty of bark lying around maybe you can find what you're looking for.  If she asks me to cut the bark to fit the 3" bartop I'm gonna have to do all I can to contain myself lol
Lol@bag of bark  :D :D :D :D


Oh man Im dyin here  :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

Bags of bark for sale......or just callem Barkbags hahahahahahahahahahahhahaha
Title: Re: What’s the Answer?
Post by: Kbeitz on December 04, 2017, 11:07:30 PM
You need to invest in a bark-O-matic machine.
Title: Re: What’s the Answer?
Post by: Southside on December 05, 2017, 12:39:19 AM
I would tell her that only dogwood still has the bark.....
Title: Re: What’s the Answer?
Post by: WDH on December 05, 2017, 07:12:17 AM
Is the bark-o-matic like the bass-o-matic? Remember that one?
Title: Re: What’s the Answer?
Post by: petefrom bearswamp on December 05, 2017, 08:36:28 AM
Bassomatic oh  yeah that's good bass
Title: Re: What’s the Answer?
Post by: Magicman on December 05, 2017, 08:48:07 AM
There is something fishy about that because it would be Basswood.   :o
Title: Re: What’s the Answer?
Post by: Resonator on December 05, 2017, 09:33:43 AM
Yes the days of scaling, cutting and gutting are over! (Dan Akroyd, Saturday Night Live, Bass-O-Matic76).
Title: Re: What’s the Answer?
Post by: Ga Mtn Man on December 05, 2017, 10:49:08 AM
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Title: Re: What’s the Answer?
Post by: mad murdock on December 05, 2017, 11:31:55 AM
I thought anything "goat made" was $300.  ???
Title: Re: What’s the Answer?
Post by: Jim_Rogers on December 05, 2017, 11:44:36 AM
Quote from: Peter Drouin on December 04, 2017, 10:01:51 PM
4x4 I tell the customer I have only sell live edge, not natural edge.
Live has no bark
Natural has bark. I don't sell Natural.  ;D

Good definitions of live vs natural

Jim Rogers
Title: Re: What’s the Answer?
Post by: POSTON WIDEHEAD on December 05, 2017, 05:53:14 PM
Quote from: mad murdock on December 05, 2017, 11:31:55 AM
I thought anything "goat made" was $300.  ???

I'm paying attention here... :P......Bags of Bark $300.
Title: Re: What’s the Answer?
Post by: 4x4American on December 05, 2017, 07:30:38 PM
Quote from: Jim_Rogers on December 05, 2017, 11:44:36 AM
Quote from: Peter Drouin on December 04, 2017, 10:01:51 PM
4x4 I tell the customer I have only sell live edge, not natural edge.
Live has no bark
Natural has bark. I don't sell Natural.  ;D

Good definitions of live vs natural

Jim Rogers


x2 I like that, makes perfect sense