Been into wood working a long time, just recently broke down and bought an ez boardwalk Jr with track extension. It's sawn over 1000 bf of cherry from one tree and enough cedar/ hackberry/ sycamore/ white oak/ hickory/ and locust to build itself a home. I'll upload pics when I get to one of those new fangled computing devices. I'm using my phone at the moment.
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sawshed progress
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16' hickory 6x10 mounted on 6x8 locust posts with 1/4 dimond plate brackets and 5" lag bolts
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sycamore lad
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me standing next to trial run with router lathe
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cedar mounted in router lathe
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buddy standing next to cherry butt log
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cherry adirondak chairs
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brother milling up sycamore log
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ambrosia sycamore grain
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halved sycamore butt log
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half on mill
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my ez boardwalk jr.
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walnut bedroom table
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another view
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with lid up. used wooden hindge for prop
(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/25938/3512/17.jpg)cedar and white oak tree stand
Welcome Hackberry Jake! That rolls off the tongue real well and must have a story behind it. Tell us some more about yourself. We are a curious bunch. (Is that another way of saying nosy?)
Good morning hackberry jake, and Welcome to the Forestry Forum. It will be interesting to hear more about you and your experiences.
Welcome Jake. Looking forward to the pictures and stories.
Welcome to the Forestry Forum Jake, this is a good place to hang out when you can't be sawing!
Quote from: Cedarman on May 27, 2011, 06:23:05 AM
We are a curious bunch. (Is that another way of saying nosy?)
Could be Cedarman, but it could have another meaning :D :D :D :D
Welcome Jake :)
welcome to FF, good to haveyou.
welcome here jake. where is here for you? (sorry my english aint that good. i been out cutting trees in the hot too long)
congratulations on the new mill purchase.
where you located at?
pc
I live bout thirty miles east of fayetteville. By the little town of saint Paul, Arkansas. Never knew how much is enjoy my mill til I got it. I figured up prices on what the lumber was worth just to build my sawshed and the mill has saved me over $1000 just from one building. I figured treated posts and the rest untreated. My shed is a 32x18 with 12 6x6 cedar posts, 2 6x8 locust posts holding up a 6x10 hickory beam for the main opening. The hickory beam/opening is 16' and the high side of The building is 12' with the low side at 9'. The rafters and braces are mainly sycamore. There's also some hackberry, ash, and white oak mixed in. All the lad boards are 2x4 sycamore. And all the rafters are 2x6 with the longest span 10'. Just now to the installing sheet metal part... hard to do by yourself with 4x20 sheets.
Oh. Just so you don't have to look up general area, its northwest Arkansas. I also just recently came across a brewco sharpener for an awesome deal. Can't find anything about them online tho so finding parts might be troublesome. I'll cross that.bridge when I get to it tho. It's working great at the moment.
Hope you enjoy your mill. It is amazing what the jr. model can cut. Especially for the price. How well did the sycamore work for rafters. I have alot of that on my farm and was thinking the same uses for it. Check out EZ boardwalks new website. Jeff has done an excellent job of putting it together. Welcome.
It worked great. I think its very comparable to pine. Watch out for knots, they have very little strength. I cut it and put in in an old chickenhouse sickened for about 3 months before I used it. It seemed very dry when cutting it for final use. There was water coming out of it when I milled it. Me and my brother tested it by putting a 2x4 that was 4' long on supports on the ends. Jumped up and down on it. It finally broke, but it wasn't easy. We are both around 230lbs.
And that's 1.5x3.5 for you "curious" folks
Their new site is way better than their last one. It is amazing what that dude will cut. I have numerous boards of cherry and sycamore over 24"wide! Very impressed
i bet that was supposed to be ''stickered'' . i have been sickened by some of my tries at using sycamore too but that was before i got my ez boardwalk! ;D
pc
Good to have you on Forestryforum.com Jake! 8) Welcome here.
By being "curious" I found out the sycamore is a lot stronger than I thought it was. Just didn't think of using it for rafters.
Yes,we do like pictures. Have fun with your new mill. You can save alot of money using your own lumber. You say wood working,what are you making? How are you getting trees? On your own land?
Congratulations on the new mill!
got the pics posted with descriptions... finally. theyre all cell phone pics, but not bad quality really. i have many more finished woodworking projects, but just need to get around to taking pics of them and posting. hope you guys enjoy ;D
Welcome hackberry jake to the FF. You say west of Fayettville and I looked on google and I see St. Paul as being east on hwy 16. Am I lost? I lived in Benton Co. for 35 yrs. Like your photos. What are you using the cedar poles for? bg
I can see you're going to fit in real well around here Jake. Great pictures. Can we see more of the router lathe and how that's laid out/works. That walnut table is awesome. Looks great.
Welcome, Jake, and nice work on the walnut especially- sure wish I had some of that to make lumber and stuff out of. Hope you like it here. :)
Lj
Nice pictures! I'm interested in hearing more about the router lathe as well.
Jake, you're doing exactly what I plan to do. Is that on your own property?
Welcome! Good to see another Arkie in the group...
Great pics.... I'm also curious about the router lathe.
Thanks for the pictures. Your cell phone does a nice job. I love that table!!!
Keep sawing and posting pics. Welcome here and good luck.
One Jake to another welcome to the forum.
Welcome, nice to see some of you guys getting started young rather than getting started somewhere around 100 years old like me. Steve
yes the building is on my land. most of the lumber i saw comes from blown over trees or ones that are just in the way. they come mainly from my fathers and grandfathers land. neighbors give me quite a bit as well. there is always a tree that someone wants out of the way. i get a few from the river. the floods bring me a new batch every year. there is currently a problem with trees shading our garden too much so this winter i am going to take down dozens from around the garden. I think there is no "trash wood". every species has a use. I will post some more pics of the router lathe prolly tomorrow some time. It spins the stock really slow while a router runs down the side taking off material. I saw it on craigslist and bought it for a steal. it wasnt working at the moment and came with everthing to get it running... on three phase... i dont have three phase so i converted everything over to run on single phase. There are still a few tweaks i would like to make to it, but overall i am really pleased with the final product. Thanks so much for all the welcomings!
welcome Jake,
love the ambrosia sycamore, I hope that didn't get cut into 2x4's :D nice job on the walnut table....looks like you are living the dream....nice to have you here on the site with the rest of us wood addicts
Steve
Hey Jake I know where St. Paul is. Lots of logging, sawmills, and the best canoe rivers in the whole USA start there. 8) 8) 8) I live just down the mountain a bit, cross the creek in Nob Hill on Beaver Lake.
Welcome to the FF...I think you will like it here.