Ha! I sold 130 slabs before I moved. One customer built pillars, porch, deck, and rails out of about 40 slabs. No redwood in Trinity county. I may go back next year and get some more. I had good sources including a tree service.
Nice!!! 130 slabs is a good amount of board footage! I've got about 60-70 that have been drying for a year, 18-30" wide. White oak, red oak, pecan and hickory. Sold most of the spalted maple I had already, been milling more of that so far this winter.
I picked up milling as a retirement hobby and it took off. I milled over 400 slabs in 3 years and now I'm 100 miles away and not finding good logs yet. I did find a few yew trees and some doug fir. The yew is fantastic but only 12-18 wide and hard to find. I'll post more pics later
NICE!
I've heard you can buy cultures of different spalting fungi for different colors and spalt the wood that way. It needs to be in the right conditions, warm, humid and shaded/dark. I'm learning more about spalting and the different fungi myself to try and eventually spalt entire logs using cultures. Look up a woman named Sara "Seri" Robinson. She has pretty much dedicated her life to understanding spalting and what fungi produce which effects and colors. She has a book published in 2021, "Spalting 101." I'm waiting for it to be delivered in a day or two.
I did not buy it yet.
Tarps is probably all it would take? Possibly enough moisture leaving the earth to hold it under the tarps with you logs.?
