Daninvan
ArboristSite Operative
Was down at the beach log dump yesterday, sussed out a couple short logs to get set up for today's milling, one initially unknown (later determined to be maple), the other cherry. The cherry was another one of the grafted flowering cherries. The guy who operates the loader there said to me "I figured you might be by today, it's such a nice day". I guess he was saying I'm a fair weather miller, and he would be right!
Fortunately for me, today turned out to be just as nice.
The crew set up the logs for me, both were in the 24"-30" wide range.
First couple slabs off each were promising. The cherry had some interesting burls internal to it, while the 'mystery' log quickly revealed itself to be a very nice white and pink piece of maple. We were cutting mostly to 3" thick.
We quickly ran into some metal on the maple though, I had cut through a nail that was completely grown over. We tried various ways of pulling it out, eventually dug it out, but hit another nail on the next pass. Managed to get that one out too.
Then we hit the mother lode of nails!
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Fortunately for me, today turned out to be just as nice.
The crew set up the logs for me, both were in the 24"-30" wide range.
First couple slabs off each were promising. The cherry had some interesting burls internal to it, while the 'mystery' log quickly revealed itself to be a very nice white and pink piece of maple. We were cutting mostly to 3" thick.
We quickly ran into some metal on the maple though, I had cut through a nail that was completely grown over. We tried various ways of pulling it out, eventually dug it out, but hit another nail on the next pass. Managed to get that one out too.
Then we hit the mother lode of nails!
(Continued)
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