What are you building with your milled wood? merged

[Justsaws]

Looks like interesting cover. How long do you find an application lasting when in direct weather? Their website recommends this product for rough sawn/milled lumber.

Recommended use is fungicide and water repellent, exterior only. Just the benefits of copper and no bug poison. The wood will rot slower but the bugs will still eat.

Look at Timbor or any branded borax based insecticide. They are water based salts and must be top coated when used in a non-dry enviroment or exposed to things you do not want to die. I am pretty sure that this is the or at least similar replacement that I was thinking about earlier.

The Cop R Tox is commonally used to seal any fresh cuts in current treated wood.

Things that you remember while mulching bark and leaves.

 

[stonykill]

nice work Smokinj!

 

[stonykill]

oak pedestal table. The turning is solid, quite a heavy table.

 

[Chris Francis]

Cop-R-Tox
I talked to the salesman in the store yesterday and looked at the jug of chemical myself. He couldn't answer my questions, so he put me on the phone with the chemist. I got great info to share with you all.
- $15/gallon, slightly less if you buy in bulk
- Covers 300 sq. ft. per gallon if sprayed or brushed on
- Posts that are going into ground should be dry, then soaked into solution for 48 hours (at least the part that is going into the ground)
- Post can go immediately into ground
- If painting with oil base, you can do so in about 24-48 hours after treatment
- If painting with latex, wait 1 week before painting after treatment

I plan to use several 55-gallon drums, fill them approx. half-way, then place the posts into the drums to soak up the solution. Different posts will be going different depths, so different drums will be filled to different levels. I have yet to figure out the following:
- How to keep rain water from entering the drum
- How to lift the heavy posts into and out of the drums
- How to support the posts once they are in the drums

5-gallon buckets may work fine for smaller posts that do not need to go so deep. After fence is put together, I will be painting the Cop-R-Tox onto the rest of it, then waiting a week or so to prime and paint.

The label says it protects from rot, fungus, and termites.

It is a green color with little odor, but it will turn the wood green. That is of no concern to me because I plan to paint it. Apparently the green may show through the first coat, but not the second.

 

[Timberframed]

Construct a teepee like frame over the drum with a pulley at the top then tarp the whole thing

 

[Chris Francis]

Construct a teepee like frame over the drum with a pulley at the top then tarp the whole thing

I have been thinking about that. Some of the posts are 15'-16' long. I think if I find a good tree branch, I could rig a pulley in it to hoist the posts, then hoist some kind of tarp with the same pulley. Wait, I thought I was an Arborist, and here I am trying to tie something to a tree! We'll see what happens.

 

[Timberframed]

16'rs. That's a little more involved. I was thinking 8'. You need block and tackle.

 

[mtngun]

Laying floor boards in the barn loft.

Boards are CSM'd doug fir. I debated whether to plane the boards to a consistent thickness, and whether to have some kind of splined or lapped joint, but in the end I merely rounded over the exposed edges, and screwed them down without further ado. It's perfectly functional that way -- by barn standards, anyway -- and I imagine it's how barn loft floors have been constructed for ages.

 

[Timberframed]

Excellent! Whats that green thingo in the back?

 

[mtngun]

Excellent! Whats that green thingo in the back?

Just a box of screws.

 

[BobL]

Looks great mtngun.

Seeing that picture reminded me of when I put the floor into the loft in our place.

It's 16 x 20 ft in area. For the floor I used recycled tongue and groove Wandoo. It has a dry Janka hardness of 3370 lbs so I gave up nailing within two minutes

 

[jimdad07]

Looks great mtngun.

Seeing that picture reminded me of when I put the floor into the loft in our place.

It's 16 x 20 ft in area. For the floor I used recycled tongue and groove Wandoo. It has a dry Janka hardness of 3370 lbs so I gave up nailing within two minutes

Looks good to both Bob and Mtngun. To Bob, how in the heck do you get the panoramic photos? I think those a pretty cool. In my world, I just cleaned out the wood shop for the winter's wood working. I have a stack of oak and poplar that is just to the point of being able to work. I have a good amount of maple started for next winter. Going to be a good season this year.

 

[mikeb1079]

that's a really neat project mtngun. it's cool to see something built out of such substantial materials and not just plantation grown pine! that floor will be around for awhile!

 

[BobL]

To Bob, how in the heck do you get the panoramic photos? I think those a pretty cool.

Outside I just handhold the camera and shoot away and then let Photoshop stitch them together. Inside it's much trickier. I have a special tripod head that holds the camera in a special location called the nodal point. I uses the special tripod head for the panorama of the loft but if you look closely you will see I did not align stuff all that well when I put the shots together.

In my world, I just cleaned out the wood shop for the winter's wood working.

I know that feeling well.

I have a stack of oak and poplar that is just to the point of being able to work. I have a good amount of maple started for next winter. Going to be a good season this year.

Know that feeling well too!

 

[LAndrews]

Here's a closeup of some chestnut I milled a while back as the facing for an aquarium stand cabinet I finished recently. Don't have a focused wide-angle shot but this one nicely shows the grain. Sheet stock is some nice maple plywood and all of it's finished with cherry Watco.

 

[Gumneck]

Cigar Box Guitar...at least my attempt at one

It turned out decent I think. I put it in as a Christmas Party give away gift and it went over very well. Neck is out of cherry with a fretboard out of sicamore. Scarf joint on the neck at the tuning pegs. Tuned to open G for slide playing. Nut out of deer antler, wired with a piezo.

Two more coming along for the kids with necks out of oak.

 

[820wards]

It turned out decent I think. I put it in as a Christmas Party give away gift and it went over very well. Neck is out of cherry with a fretboard out of sicamore. Scarf joint on the neck at the tuning pegs. Tuned to open G for slide playing. Nut out of deer antler, wired with a piezo.

Two more coming along for the kids with necks out of oak.

Now that is cool, nice job!
jerry-

 

[Chris Francis]

Cool guitar, but I gave up after opening the 2nd link. Insert the pics into your post by opening the pic in AS and copy the address bar, then by putting "<img>" then paste the address, then put "</img>" after it. Don't forget the slash in the 2nd one. Whallah! Your pic will appear in the post.

 

[Chris Francis]

How to post pictures

Don't type the quotes, just the <>/ and the text inside.

 

[DaltonPaull]

I debated whether to plane the boards to a consistent thickness

The loft looks great. If you ever need a smother floor you can always rent a floor sander. I've laid a pretty uneven floor with salvaged T&G and it was just fine after sanding.