Back in the saddle again...hunting white oak

IanB22 · Oct 19, 2014

Sought out some white oak, made up my own version of the Grandberg rails out of a ladder and was looking for 16/4 white oak cut quarter sawn.

It will be a door one day at the house, and cut from a tree I played around and cut wood near when my grandfather was alive.

I think he would have like the door that it will eventually become.

Oh yeah...52 degrees, wind ALWAYS blowing away from me as the chips flew, went through two gallons of fuel and 32oz of oil and she never broke down once. Amazing day, and I'd like to think that's because he was looking out for me.

SDB777 · Oct 24, 2014

That is going to be one serious door.......16/4!!!!

How did you move those 'chunks' out of the woods, or were you closer to a road then it looks? My guess is too heavy to toss on the shoulder and carry...
White Oak is some schaweet timber! I actually like turning it on my wood lathe(sort of strange that way).

Scott (the forgotten timber like me) B

czbigoaks · Oct 24, 2014

How does the 394 do with the 42" bar? I got the same saw and sawmill, but with a 36" husque bar. I thought about the 42 but wasnt sure if it would to much for the saw, especially rip cutting.

IanB22 · Oct 24, 2014

I run full-comp chain, full 42" with depth setting at 22thousands....never skips a beat, runs like a champ. I have about 145 compression. I would say go for it and don't worry at all. I do find semi chisel cuts 'smoother' than full chisel when milling. Cross cutting the full chisel is nice, but milling the semi is better.

IanB22 · Oct 25, 2014

SDB777 said:
That is going to be one serious door.......16/4!!!!

How did you move those 'chunks' out of the woods, or were you closer to a road then it looks? My guess is too heavy to toss on the shoulder and carry...
White Oak is some schaweet timber! I actually like turning it on my wood lathe(sort of strange that way).

Scott (the forgotten timber like me) B

I had a hand truck, but as you see in the photo's I broke down the 12ft length into 8 ft and 4+ ish foot cants.

They then were still crazy crazy heavy...at least 200+ lbs. but yeah 16/4 is frigging huge. I honestly wouldn't recommend it unless you specifically needed massive hunks of wood like I do.

Only disadvantage so far was leaving the wood in my car (no truck for me!) and the really really smelled up the interior for a few days until I got them outa there. You think red oak smells bad, try locking up cants of white oak for a few days in a sealed dry environment...sour sour smell!

SDB777 · Oct 25, 2014

Crazy! I'm guessing the smell will dissipate from the upholstery? I hope, I know White Oak....not pleasant.

I generally use the chainsaw mill for bigger then LT-10 sized pieces, to get them to fit on the LT-10(if that makes sense). I'll cut down 40+ inch logs into 12-ish inch thick slabs and then load them up on the bandsaw mill to get boards. But I usually try to pick timber that is a little more accessible to roads(truck with trailer)....

Can't wait to see those doors!

Scott (working harder sucks) B