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Well I've been in Northern NE for the last 70 years in and around sawmills and the loging industry- and the slabs in the slab pile are slabs not off cuts. In all those years I never heard that term // EPA
The slabs thing has a different meaning in different parts of the world.
The slabs thing has a different meaning in different parts of the world.
In the US it means those first cuts off the log with the bark and all.
In NZ and Aussie it means BIG live edge boards, that I think you guys would call flitches.
Q-sawn. With a swinger it's true that not all your boards will be perfectly q-sawn. But the best ones will be cut exactly 90 deg and should be perfect. Using any of the common techniques on a bandmill is also only approximate quatersawing. Some (hopefully the widest ones) will be perfect, but the others will drift off toward rift sawn just like the swingblade does. The percentage and size of the 90deg boards may vary, but unless you have a radial sawmill that slices the log into segments like an orange, you cant get all the boards at 90 deg.
You want wide boards/flitches/slabs - we do em
But you see why they are called slabs
Cheers
Ian
The most common use of the term "slab" in my neck of the woods would have to be in relation to a carton of 2 dozen cans or stubbies
24 cans in a slab, 24 hours in a day.. coincidence? I think not ;-)
Now that was worth reading , just for the laugh mate :hmm3grin2orange:The most common use of the term "slab" in my neck of the woods would have to be in relation to a carton of 2 dozen cans or stubbies. The two and half dozen can carton we call "blocks", your terminology may vary.
The most common use of the term "slab" in my neck of the woods would have to be in relation to a carton of 2 dozen cans or stubbies. The two and half dozen can carton we call "blocks", your terminology may vary.
Well I've been in Northern NE for the last 70 years in and around sawmills and the loging industry- and the slabs in the slab pile are slabs not off cuts. In all those years I never heard that term // EPA
Well put Dave .... sadly this thread now look's a bit like one of those chainsaw thread's , it would have been nice , if everyone didnt get hung up on the wording , instead of keeping it simple and trying to help the bloke . I must admit though , I did get a few laugh's out of it though . Cheer's MMInteresting... I've heard of a 24 can carton of beer/soda refered to as a "rack", but never a slab. Guess if I grew up in certain parts of Australia, I would be calling it a slab
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Different parts of the world, different terms for the same thing. What's the big deal? Here in SE Pennsylvania a slab is that first slice off the side of a log, mostly bark, and if you want to buy "slabwood" for your wood stove, that is what you would get, roughly 16" sections of that slab. You can get it cheaper than regular firewood since a lot of it is just bark, some of which falls off as it dries making more of a mess of the firewood pile. Perhaps if I moved to Minnesota or Alaska and asked for slabwood I'd get a blank stare.
Around here, I have ALSO came across the term "slab" referring to a (generally) thick, meaning 8/4 or thicker, wide (at least 2ft wide), usually live edge board like the stuff Aggie slices with that huge csm he has.
When I was in the military stationed in Germany early 70's in the barracks with guys from all over the US, a can of Coke was called everything from a can of pop to can of fizz... some actually called it soda, which is what we call it here in PA.
Swing mill? ...... would love to have one.
Full sized bandmill? ..... would love to have one.
60" csm with an 080 on EACH end and somebody to help me make "slabs" ? .... would love to have one.
Hey EPA,
You have to excuse those aussie dudes... Heck, when they flush their toilet, even the terd goes the other way around! lol lol
DM
It's the right way around if you consider, we are standing on the other side of the earth.
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