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finally got caught up on things that didn't get done during the extended arctic winter we had.  Cutting red oak for fence wood and for some trailer decking when I made these passes to resize a few pieces.  mind you they were made with whatever blade was on the mill at the time, all of which have many sharpens and board feet on them.

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Sheesh, you hardwood guys must have the nicest fences :)...and trailer decks 8) anywhere. The only Red Oak we have up here in Northern B.C. is in the building supply stores for a small fortune. By the way, pretty strait cutting. What kind of mill??

woodmizer HD40.  Yes nice fences when the 16' log is a first cut and the first 8 passes around it give clear lumber.  My customer is a local fence company and they have been happy with the product I cut for them.  They were paying $1.50/bd ft and getting #2 or less that was at 7/8".  I give them 4/4 at around 1 1/16 but they are taking the whole tree at $1.25.  I harvest the trees, mostly culls that are being shaded by others or multiple trunks.  I also get the benifit of lots of nice clear first and second pass lumber that is less than 6" wide or 8' long since that is the lower limit.  As I said the blades that made those thin pieces have lots of use, and I sharpen and set on woodmizer equipment and they are .045" standard double hard. IMHO you can't go wrong with
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  Yes thats it.  I could not read the dial so how thin is it.  I have some that are 0.028 out of white oak.  I had some that were thinner butt Granny wiped her nose with them and threw them in the burn barrel.  >:(
   I am sure if You Northern boys seen what we put in trailer decks and fences here out of oak would make you cry.
ARKANSAWYER

Here is a close up of his dial.  Looks like .034
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that was the thinest piece that was uniform across width and along length.  I had one at .025" but it was tapered slightly to .040" across the length.  I just sold some full 8/4 red oak that was 2 1/4" thick and 11" wide.  this was to a construction company.  they requested the 11" width to fit an aplication on a low bed trailer.  It was 50% FAS with even some of the center cuts looking almost like #2, but they paid $1.50/bd ft so they got the very good with the lower grade.  they are a reletively new customer and seem happy with my lumber.