Here's the trees that are going to be my new shop.

[jimdad07]

Whatever it is, when go to start building let me know. If I'm not busy I'll give you a hand. Bill

Thanks a lot. Might take you up on that. Be good to meet you in person.

 

[betterbuilt]

Thanks a lot. Might take you up on that. Be good to meet you in person.

It would. I'm interested in your build. I like using local materials like the Locust and the Poplar. I should tell you I have a place over here that make steel roofing to order. The prices are really good also. I'm heading over there tomorrow to pick some up. They also make all their trim to order which can be cheaper sometimes.

 

[jimdad07]

It would. I'm interested in your build. I like using local materials like the Locust and the Poplar. I should tell you I have a place over here that make steel roofing to order. The prices are really good also. I'm heading over there tomorrow to pick some up. They also make all their trim to order which can be cheaper sometimes.

Very good to know. I can get steel roofing down the road but it is pricey. This build is going to be a touch piece-meal as far as getting materials. I don't want to start it until I can get the shell of it done. Then I'll move on to getting floorboards, can't afford to do concrete right now plus I like working on a wooden floor much better.

 

[betterbuilt]

Very good to know. I can get steel roofing down the road but it is pricey. This build is going to be a touch piece-meal as far as getting materials. I don't want to start it until I can get the shell of it done. Then I'll move on to getting floorboards, can't afford to do concrete right now plus I like working on a wooden floor much better.

When I was doing my barn I couldn't afford the normally priced metal so I bought an off color and save about 13 cents a Sqft which was alot at the time.

I can totally understand peice-meal. I usually trade a few hours labor for lumber. I would love to pour a few slabs but it's just crazy what they want to deliver it. It's actually funny that concrete and stone deliverys are getting close to the same price.

 

[jimdad07]

When I was doing my barn I couldn't afford the normally priced metal so I bought an off color and save about 13 cents a Sqft which was alot at the time.

I can totally understand peice-meal. I usually trade a few hours labor for lumber. I would love to pour a few slabs but it's just crazy what they want to deliver it. It's actually funny that concrete and stone deliverys are getting close to the same price.

It has gotten crazy what prices have done. I was going to try to save up for a load of saw logs but wasn't sure where the $ was coming from, these trees came along at the best possible time. These days you have to save where you can and spend as little as possible.

 

[StevenBiars]

Are you freehanding your quartering or do you have something assisting you? I'm wondering because I've almost collected enough parts to build a mill, and I've got a lot of material that *might* end up being too big to cut without quartering it first.

 

[abbott295]

This is going to be my first post, and it's about tree identification.

Poplar is not a species, it means different things to different people. Around here in Georgia, and I suspect to the poster from Arkansas, poplar usually refers to 'yellow poplar' 'tulip poplar' seldom known here as 'tulip tree' Liriodendron tulipifera, if my memory and spelling aren't too faulty.

Cottonwood is in the genus Populus, (deltoides) as is aspen, again if memory serves reasonably. They have a little more 'right' to be called poplar, but common names are just that, what something is commonly called. If enough people, for whatever reason, were calling what we know as Eastern Red Cedar, poplar, then that would be what they knew as poplar. For instance.

And we might not know what they were talking about any more than they would know our 'poplar.'

Lombardy poplar is probably not what anyone here has been talking about?

 

[brookpederson]

Very nice, can't wait to see the finished product.

 

[JD HD]

Very nice, can't wait to see the finished product.

+1 I'll be keeping an anxious eye on this thread. Thanks for taking the time to share.

 

[jimdad07]

Are you freehanding your quartering or do you have something assisting you? I'm wondering because I've almost collected enough parts to build a mill, and I've got a lot of material that *might* end up being too big to cut without quartering it first.

Freehanding them. I should have set up the mini-mill on them but they are big enough to the point where I am not too worried about losing a couple of inches to true them up.

 

[jimdad07]

This is going to be my first post, and it's about tree identification.

Poplar is not a species, it means different things to different people. Around here in Georgia, and I suspect to the poster from Arkansas, poplar usually refers to 'yellow poplar' 'tulip poplar' seldom known here as 'tulip tree' Liriodendron tulipifera, if my memory and spelling aren't too faulty.

Cottonwood is in the genus Populus, (deltoides) as is aspen, again if memory serves reasonably. They have a little more 'right' to be called poplar, but common names are just that, what something is commonly called. If enough people, for whatever reason, were calling what we know as Eastern Red Cedar, poplar, then that would be what they knew as poplar. For instance.

And we might not know what they were talking about any more than they would know our 'poplar.'

Lombardy poplar is probably not what anyone here has been talking about?

We don't have a lot of Lombary poplar around here but there is some here and there in windbreaks people have planted. Like the looks of those trees, reminds me of old paintings of Italy.

 

[StevenBiars]

We don't have a lot of Lombary poplar around here but there is some here and there in windbreaks people have planted. Like the looks of those trees, reminds me of old paintings of Italy.