White Oak

Yellowbeard · Jul 11, 2014

I'll be cutting this up soon, hopefully - for someone else but we haven't talked about price yet - maybe I'll come home with some of the wood. Though if I can defray some of the cost of the new bar I'll have to buy to mill it then that might be good too. And before anyone says anything about hinges and such: I didn't cut this one down. Didn't even take these pictures. I've never seen it in person. So if something was done wrong in the felling, while I'd be happy to hear advice on what not to do, I didn't do this one.

Any advice on how to tackle this monster is appreciated. It's about 6 feet long and 38-42" wide. Thinking I should probably start across the wide section of photo 3 and run down the middle and go from there, but any advice is welcome. The big problem with that approach is getting the top half off. Again - advice appreciated.

Also, going to probably just jump up from my 3' oregon bar to a 5' bar. Anyone have other suggestions? I thought about going mid-range with a 4 footer but that just seems like lots more chains to have around. Besides which, I don't think I can tackle this thing with just a 4 foot bar because of loss to the Alaskan.

In other news: was helping a friend move some red oak and sycamore we plan to mill later and ran across this girl:

To give you some scale, the piece of sycamore she's on in the 3rd picture is about 8" in diameter.

Yellowbeard · Jul 11, 2014

As for Bars:

This: http://www.baileysonline.com/Chains...72-Drive-Links.axd?PartFinderType=BarSelector

OR

This: http://leftcoastsupplies.com/product/60-gb-extra-long-titanium-bar/

I could also possibly just get a 50" bar.... quite a bit cheaper. And I know I could do this log with it.

Grey · Jul 13, 2014

I'd cut that for firewood. Too many crotches. Will be a nightmare to dry. Lots of wastage. Good luck and share some pictures when you are done.

Yellowbeard · Jul 13, 2014

The crotches look like a pain - no doubt about it. However, as I said, it's for someone else and they will be footing the bill (hopefully to the tune of: enough to buy the 50" bar it will take to cut it up).

Yellowbeard · Jun 5, 2015

Client for whom I milled this thing asked me to come back and help him make a coffee table from what had been the top of it. We set up some 2x6 guide rails and I tried to sort of free-hand it level. Didn't turn out perfectly, but he seemed pretty happy. He's going to have some serious sanding ahead. The first cut came up a little bit and so I tried to go back and level it off which is why there's so much wash-board on one of the tops. Regardless, he seemed to like it. Going to go back again and make some other cuts for him on one of the slabs I had cut originally. Guess he must be pretty happy or he wouldn't keep calling me back. Any advice on better ways to do this in the future?

JohnWayne · Jun 5, 2015

Only tried something like that once, I chalked a line for the top and cut to the line. Then flipped it over to check for "flat" and cut the excess from the bottom.

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