Faux Cordwood Wall

WmFritz · April 25, 2016, 12:05:26 PM

I wonder how your cedar cookies will compare with the rough sawn cedar on my house. Every two to three years, I spray a bleach/water mix on it and power wash. After a day to dry, I hit it with Thompsons. Most of the color comes back.

Jeff · April 25, 2016, 01:04:34 PM

I'm thinking an inch and a half thick cedar cookie could probably get split apart with a pressure washer. Sometimes silvered looking wood can look good. Ive seen some beach front places on northern Lake Huron where they just let the cedar go grey/silver, and they really look pretty good. That is what I had planned on doing in the U.P. with a vertical log cabin if they would have let me build it.

I'm thinking now I'm going to build a pole barn in that spot one day in the hole I have there. ;D 12 foot side walls and the first 4 foot sided with 1" t@g treated plywood. Backfill it. I can side it with what ever I want, and what I may want is to infill between the posts with VERTICAL LOGS. It'll be for storage. Just simple storage. nothing more Once its up and inspected as a storage pole barn, I'll go in and put a wood floor in it at 4ft and start storing beds and refrigerators and kitchen tables and hunting cloths and stuff like that in it. Maybe an occasional warm body or two as well. ;D ;D

WmFritz · April 25, 2016, 02:20:50 PM

Boss, that's pretty much the same story I told the Cheboygan County building inspector about my ''garage.'' ;)

POSTON WIDEHEAD · April 25, 2016, 05:04:41 PM

Tell me if I'm wrong.....spraying your wall with an oil base spray IS NOT sealing it and the wood will still air dry.
The oil spray will keep most moisture out.
I always thought when someone says SEAL....I think about Poly or a wax, etc.

Ox · April 25, 2016, 08:59:46 PM

There's been more than a few garages and barns that magically ended up being houses and homes around here, too. After the inspection passes for the former, it's fair game what you want to do after that. Nobody ever seems to say anything. We call it po-boyin' it.

I like the silver/gray look, too. It just seems that my untreated wood ends up an ugly brownish turd looking color with spots of sick gray mixed in. Like something dead tossed its cookies. I wonder if sea air has something to do with it? The salts and minerals blown in off the water?

Anyway, I hope your wall turns out like you're hoping.

fishpharmer · April 25, 2016, 09:58:14 PM

Jeff, great idea! 8) I can think of several places I could use something like that (maybe ERC).

Texas Ranger · April 26, 2016, 08:04:09 AM

Need an old foggy bench in front of it for those morning coffee's.

Jeff · April 29, 2016, 04:21:46 PM

Completed another step in my new entry project. I'm pretty happy with the sawing out of the log technique I used to saw out the wall ledge. Now I'm off to the cabin to try and find the perfect log to clad the corner.

tule peak timber · April 29, 2016, 04:23:12 PM

VERY nice !

Magicman · April 29, 2016, 04:55:06 PM

Looks nice.

Do you want me to send you an Armadillo to go on top?? ???

Jeff · April 29, 2016, 05:07:13 PM

Sure! :D

Magicman · April 29, 2016, 05:10:08 PM

My bluff has been called. Now what do I do?? ???

POSTON WIDEHEAD · April 29, 2016, 05:10:31 PM

Unreal Boss!

tule peak timber · April 29, 2016, 05:32:32 PM

1 - 800 ARMADILLO.....

Ox · April 29, 2016, 08:53:56 PM

I could send you a woodchuck or turkey buzzard...

:D

Your project looks awesome. Lots of attention to detail beaming to my untrained eye.

thecfarm · April 29, 2016, 08:55:37 PM

Armadillo would look better than a goat. :

;D

That wall fits right in there.

Jeff · April 29, 2016, 09:04:39 PM

Now if I can just get Lou to give up this tree. So far he won't let me have it. He has the property for sale now, so maybe its time to ask again. ;D

Corley5 · April 29, 2016, 10:45:53 PM

Is it tamarack or spruce ???

isawlogs · April 29, 2016, 11:34:54 PM

Ça c'est beau!!!! Nice job, Jeff I would not put anything on the cookies. I beleive they will weather fine and look awsome when silver coloured!!!!

Magicman · April 30, 2016, 08:23:33 AM

That burl looks kraft'y.

Jeff · May 04, 2016, 10:50:13 PM

The adventure continues on this project. This time off to the woods with my friend Mike in search for a tree to use to clad my post. I found a cedar at the cabin that was highly decorated by a Pileated woodpecker and in tough shape. It was an adventure getting it out. We never would have done it without a logrite arch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn68NVoul54

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwWdvWSsoUc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBeXgbwfLC8

WDH · May 05, 2016, 07:22:55 AM

Nature is the original artist.

Jeff · May 05, 2016, 07:29:51 AM

I was initially worried about the bark. After we drug it out, I tested it and it was on tight. I knew that dragging it home on a trailer 200 miles would probably dry it out and set the bark until decay loosened it instead of spring. Late in the day after cutting it and the day before I had to come home, it was warm and sunny. I tested the bark again and found it had loosened. Mike and I were able to strip the entire tree in a couple hours by getting pieces started with a screwdriver and them simply pulling it off. It was getting towards evening when we finished and the bark started to set up again in the cooler temps. I was lucky to get it all off.

Ox · May 05, 2016, 08:13:50 AM

Ma nature wanted you to put that cedar up so others can appreciate the beauty as well, didn't she? It seems she allowed things to happen just right to get the bark off. Cool.

Jeff · May 08, 2016, 08:59:40 PM

My new entryway project is nearing completion. To think, this cedar tree I used, I didn't even really know existed only a week ago, now it is part of our home forever. Thanks to my Wood-Mizer, my Logrite tools and lots of help from Tammy and my friend Mike Foster