Nothing much, but it's milled

[SDB777]

Been eyeing a few really small Eastern Red Cedars out on the property I hunt at, and being they were pushed over by a logging crew a few years back.....they needed to be milled and put into some kind of use!

I was smart enough to bring sharp chains, plenty of gas mix and bar oil, and even a camera out to the place...but for whatever reason, the camera just failed to come out of the cab of the truck(go figure?) These are all I wanted to cut, being that I'd need to process them into blanks before the Arkansas heat got them to cracking. As long as the logs are whole in the woods, they should be fine until I go back and get some more.....

Anyway, here's my small 30 minutes of milling stack-o-cedar. The small 40" long slabs are 2" thick, but have a bunch of figure and will sell fast then I can get 'em processed!

And a close-up that I took for selling them pieces I'll cut up!

Thanks for looking! Just wanted to smell some cedar sawdust today....



Scott B

 

[Rookie1]

Nice Thanks for sharing.

 

[mikeb1079]

good looking stuff. i've never milled any erc before, looks great tho...

 

[willbarryrec]

Nice!

My limited (two good size trees worth) experience with Eastern red cedar is that it will air dry very well with very little splitting and cracking.:msp_thumbsup:

How do you find it dry's down in AR?

What are you going to make out of them? pen blanks?

After reading some other of your posts I'm guessing turning blanks?

 

[SDB777]

Nice!

My limited (two good size trees worth) experience with Eastern red cedar is that it will air dry very well with very little splitting and cracking.:msp_thumbsup:

How do you find it dry's down in AR?

What are you going to make out of them? pen blanks?

After reading some other of your posts I'm guessing turning blanks?

Yup, you got it....turning blanks.
Mostly wine bottle stopper blanks, but a few bigger(platter) blanks out of the highly figured areas.

This stuff is pretty much dry now, but once it's processed down to 'use-able' size it'll only be a month to a month-in-a-half at most before it'll be sold off. Or I use it!





Scott B

 

[willbarryrec]

Very nice.

Man I love milling cedar.....no moths around after your done that's for sure.

 

[SDB777]

Not a bug in sight!!!

And the wife enjoys the slabs sitting in the garage, waiting to be processed. Although, she will be disappointed tonight when she gets home from work....it has been cut up and photo'd(those will follow shortly).





Hmmmm, boring stack of blanks.

Haven't cut these to lenght yet.

Various bottle stopper blanks of mixed lenght.

Bigger chunks.

Scott B

 

[willbarryrec]

Wow!

That's a lot of blanks!

And if you don't mind me asking,are you able to sell blanks pretty steady?

 

[SDB777]

That's a lot of blanks!

And if you don't mind me asking,are you able to sell blanks pretty steady?

Pricing is everything in selling lots of blanks.....enough to make it worth your effort, but not enough to send them packing. A happy medium is necessary. With that said, yes I sell a lot of blanks.



And that is not a LOT of blanks, but a few for this week is more then enough with the heat we've having! During a typical cutting day I'll cut somewhere around 500 pen blanks and maybe a few hundred bottle-stopper blanks. Today's 100*F+ temps kept me in the 160 pen blank range!




Scott (sweat running down my crack = quit for the day) B

 

[SDB777]

Update...

The first photo showing the stack of boring blanks....all gone! Sold them in a period of 4hrs to three seperate individuals.





So I guess that means next weekend I'll be going back out and getting that other 'stick' that was pushed over by a dozer. Ahhh, more milling.....




Scott B

 

[willbarryrec]

The first photo showing the stack of boring blanks....all gone! Sold them in a period of 4hrs to three seperate individuals.

That's great!

It's awesome you can make a little money from milling...So far it is a expensive hobby for me.:msp_rolleyes:

I hope you don't mind me asking questions about your business but how do you advertise?

 

[jimdad07]

Nice work on those blanks. I am looking forward to picking up after the loggers that are infesting our hunting swamp right now. I was checking it out the other day and they are leaving me some here and there on the ground, not to mention all of the free firewood from the tree tops they are leaving in.