Ash Picnic Table

[DWyatt]

My latest quick project is done. A 7' long Ash picnic table and a strong recommendation for it to be an inside the barn picnic table so it doesn't turn to mush in 2 years. Two coats of General Finishes Outdoor Oil for the finish. It will nicely match the 12' one I built the customer's dad last summer. They are loggers and the ash was a log they kept and had milled by someone else 6 years ago and it has been on sticks drying ever since. The person who milled it must've had a hell of a time because it had 3/8" waves in it when I planed it down and all cleaned up at ~1 1/4" :




 



 



 

[alan gage]

Looks great! Glad I don't have to move it.

Alan

[WDH]

Ash is such beautiful wood. 

[firefighter ontheside]

Really nice.  It looks a mile long in that second pic.

[DWyatt]

Really nice.  It looks a mile long in that second pic.

12' long felt a mile long when I had to move the dang thing in the shop by myself! 

[Brad_bb]

Now you can build one from SYP for outside  ;D

[samandothers]

The grain in that first picture sure looks good!  Does the table have finish on it in all 3 pictures?  The first one looks as if it has finish but I was not sure about the others.  

As Danny stated it is beautiful wood.

[SwampDonkey]

A dandy rugged picnic table. I notice you boys south of the line like stuff big and rugged. ;D

Maybe it's because you guys didn't grow up loading rail cars with potato sacks, and that would have been the 3rd time by then that the sacks was sacked. :D :D ;)

[WDH]

No, but loading square bales of hay onto a wagon and stacking them in the barn accomplishes the exact same thing. 

[SwampDonkey]

Yes, indeed. Done that to. In between sack'n spuds. :D

[DWyatt]

The grain in that first picture sure looks good!  Does the table have finish on it in all 3 pictures?  The first one looks as if it has finish but I was not sure about the others.  

As Danny stated it is beautiful wood.

Yes, all 3 pictures have finish. The first two are the 7' table and the last is the 12' table. The lights in my shop make it hard to see that it's finished.

[Old Greenhorn]

Both are beautiful tables. I'll bet if you put 3 coats of oil polyurethane on the they would hold up just fine in the weather. Just set the 4 legs on patio blocks to keep them out of the soil. 
 Pretty tables, yes sir.