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Nice photos, Sparkey. Are you going to buy that machine?

Boy am I tired. Ran all the lumber that was in the kiln through the planer. It was 2X4X8 and 2X6X8s. Finished the last board at dark. Of course up here dark is at 4:30 pm. Now have the kiln ready for the oak. Wanted to put the oak boards on the bottom then stack green Douglas fir planks on top. The ...

Haven't been keeping up with all the new camera stuff. Afraid if I did would buy something. The old D3 and D200 is still doing a good job and haven't had any trouble with my speed lite. Only replaced the batteries once. Probably wouldn't hurt to change them out though.

Thanks Sparkey----Just noticed this is my M post. Took awhile to get here

Sure do. Left over from my last go around at milling logs. Now thinking of building an edger. Have been doing it on the mill but it would be nice to have a dedicated edger next to the kiln. Regardless how accurate a cut is, when it comes out of the kiln, it need a little trimming to take out the pro...

The old guys around here keeps telling me to buy one but I am still holding out. I just like to see the nails going in the boards. Besides I have tried to pull some of those nails. Almost impossible. I like the screw idea better. Can take apart something real fast that way. I do use a electric screw...

Sparkey wrote:You could always make me a shed for my bike.

Don't think Oak would work to good. Would hate to try to drive nails though the boards. Probably have to drill each hole. Oak is like driving nail through iron.

Jon, I need some ideas on how thick and wide I should cut this log. I can get several 16 inch wide boards out of it. If you were going to build something and you could have whatever thickness you wanted what thickness would you be looking for? Hate to just cut it into one inch boards. Am thinking of...

I have supplied him with so much lumber, he really don't have any use for any more. He is in business removing trees so I get quite a few trees from him. By the way those log dogs on the side of the log in the photo are one foot tall so that kind of gives you a idea how large the log is.

A friend came over today with this large Oak log. Will be able to get lots of solid boards out of it. We don't have that many Oaks in Western Washington and most are small with the center being hollow. To get one this large and solid to boot is very unusual. Don't know what I am going to do with the...