Pre Revolutionary Logs

[rarefish383]

A friend saw my Granberg sitting in the corner of the garage and asked what it was. When I told him, his eyes popped open and he told me about his neighbor. Parts of their house date back to the early to mid 1700's. When it was built they laid a solid row of logs on the ground and built the house on top of them. Recently they wanted to replace the floor, and after taking up several layers of ply wood and planking, they came to the logs. I don't know how or what they did to the foundation, but they took all of the old logs out. Brian said they still have bark on them and look like they were just a few years old. He said they were about half Cherry and half Poplar. His neighbor said he was going to cut them up for fire wood. Now I think he is going to let Brian and me have them. I haven't seen them yet, and as soon as the snow melts enought to get a look, I'll post some pics, Joe.

 

[Andrew96]

I think you should get excited now. I have an 1815 house. All stone. On the back of the stone house was a tree foundation type kitchen. I removed this and found the trees. They were the first things I milled up ever. Some of them had some rot on the bottom 2" or so...the rest was sweet. Mine needed to be power washed to get the dust and dirt off (to save the chain). Other than that...for my fist time milling, it was great. I had 1/2 maple, 1/2 cherry. All about 14-16" if I remember correctly.
I'd say...start getting excited.

 

[gemniii]

A friend saw my Granberg sitting in the corner of the garage and asked what it was. When I told him, his eyes popped open and he told me about his neighbor. Parts of their house date back to the early to mid 1700's. When it was built they laid a solid row of logs on the ground and built the house on top of them. Recently they wanted to replace the floor, and after taking up several layers of ply wood and planking, they came to the logs. I don't know how or what they did to the foundation, but they took all of the old logs out. Brian said they still have bark on them and look like they were just a few years old. He said they were about half Cherry and half Poplar. His neighbor said he was going to cut them up for fire wood. Now I think he is going to let Brian and me have them. I haven't seen them yet, and as soon as the snow melts enought to get a look, I'll post some pics, Joe.

Document it and after you get them mostly milled contact a UNIVERSITY to see if there is any historical/climatological value. Don't call them first because they might confiscate the entire batch.

 

[rarefish383]

:agree2:I'm always leary of the powers to be. It cracked me up that they wanted to cut them up for fire wood. For some reason I would never think of burning any thing over 200 years old. My friend has many standing and downed dead Oaks we can trade off if they need more firewood. I'll try to keep every one posted. With the weather the way it is there may be some lag time between getting any thing done, Joe.

 

[huskyhank]

A friend saw my Granberg sitting in the corner of the garage and asked what it was. When I told him, his eyes popped open and he told me about his neighbor. Parts of their house date back to the early to mid 1700's. When it was built they laid a solid row of logs on the ground and built the house on top of them. Recently they wanted to replace the floor, and after taking up several layers of ply wood and planking, they came to the logs. I don't know how or what they did to the foundation, but they took all of the old logs out. Brian said they still have bark on them and look like they were just a few years old. He said they were about half Cherry and half Poplar. His neighbor said he was going to cut them up for fire wood. Now I think he is going to let Brian and me have them. I haven't seen them yet, and as soon as the snow melts enought to get a look, I'll post some pics, Joe.

Dayuuummmmm!
I'd almost drive up there to mill some of those!
Keep us posted.

 

[rarefish383]

Will do, Joe.