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What are you building with your milled wood? merged
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Czech_Made
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I bet it'll be nicer milling under shelter.
Looks good.
Those are called rafters though. Purlins are something different, but no biggie.
I'd have to put in another post here with our high snow loads, or a WAY deeper and larger beam.
Are the posts 6"x 6" size?
What size is that beam two 2"x 10" or 2"x 12"?
Czech_Made
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Rafters are pine too, milled them myself. 2x6-10. Forgot to list them. 
Posts are real 6x6, just cut, no planing.
The beam is 1 3/4 x 11 7/8, it was abut $100 at Home Depot, quite happy with it.
Posts are real 6x6, just cut, no planing.
The beam is 1 3/4 x 11 7/8, it was abut $100 at Home Depot, quite happy with it.
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A "boat shelf" for the living room. Planking is red cedar, ribs and keel are maple. The fiancé says she wanted one, so I figured I'd try to make a boat, then turn it into a shelf. Lots of re-sawing was required.
The cedar has some dry rot holes, which don't matter, but what I can say is that I have a new appreciation for people who build wood boats. Also, I've learned a lot so next time (if there ever is a next time) I know what not to do.
The cedar has some dry rot holes, which don't matter, but what I can say is that I have a new appreciation for people who build wood boats. Also, I've learned a lot so next time (if there ever is a next time) I know what not to do.
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I don't post here but I likely should be reading here more. Woodland Mills HM130. This is my grandsons basement. He was 4 when he helped cut the live edge on the bandsaw. My wife is getting pictures developed of him hauling the logs home and him pushing the saw while cutting them on the mill to put on the shelves. Picture is kind of dark but 65" TV, cedar mantle and electric ( yes electric) fireplace below it, backing is beadboard from Home Depot. Both sides are 36" high cabinets built in place and Home Depot doors ( for now). 19" cedar wide counter, 12" and then 9" wide cedar shelves above it. On top is a bulkhead with led pot lites.
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"Pot lites"? Is that legal there?
Wow.
That's a really nice saw buck.
I made one from old scrap 2x6s, but mines real ugly and used for 9 years now so chainsaw nicked up a bit.
I added a chain on the outside of the bottom part of the legs so as to not open too far and stress the wood when fully open.
They sure do help on the back when blocking logs.
Here's mine I built 9 years ago
A retired school mate of mine got into contact with me to ask about restoring some of his dad's old tools.
After we did those he asked me about making a workbench and we ended up making this.
It's made from a mix of Spotted Gum and Western Australian Redgum that I milled about 12 years ago. I have heaps of this stuff laying around slowing going rotten or cracking up so it took about half a dozen slabs to retrieve enough decent lumber for the bench . The left overs (4 large wheel barrow loads) made exceedingly fine firewood.
Spotted gum now grows like a weed in many places round the world including SoCal where grows all crooked and twisty so its near useless as a lumber tree. In Oz it can grow straight and tall and makes good lumber although being highly cross gained its very difficult to work.
The bench is just over 5 ft long, 3 ft high and 2 ft deep.
The top is a single slab 1 5/8" thick. the whole thing weighs in at just over 200lbs.
After we did those he asked me about making a workbench and we ended up making this.
It's made from a mix of Spotted Gum and Western Australian Redgum that I milled about 12 years ago. I have heaps of this stuff laying around slowing going rotten or cracking up so it took about half a dozen slabs to retrieve enough decent lumber for the bench . The left overs (4 large wheel barrow loads) made exceedingly fine firewood.
Spotted gum now grows like a weed in many places round the world including SoCal where grows all crooked and twisty so its near useless as a lumber tree. In Oz it can grow straight and tall and makes good lumber although being highly cross gained its very difficult to work.
The bench is just over 5 ft long, 3 ft high and 2 ft deep.
The top is a single slab 1 5/8" thick. the whole thing weighs in at just over 200lbs.
That's a beauty work bench. I especially like the wood vice with distinct handle that reminds me of high school shop classes.
I love that you used old lumber and that it's made heavy enough to not move or jostle around when working on it.
It's also why I never throw out any good wood. It may come in handy one day, to someone.
I need to get busy building more wood projects. I've got lots of Eastern Red Oak to mill.
Cheers Bob.
Just wrapped up generator shed. First project for the mill.
20KW diesel power sitting on 200g of fuel. Hopefully I just guaranteed the power wont go out, but I'd be good with that.
20KW diesel power sitting on 200g of fuel. Hopefully I just guaranteed the power wont go out, but I'd be good with that.
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Down Home Dave
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Cool thread.
my recents...
Storm came, power company cut walnut, left it lay. I grabbed it, slabbed it, dried it three years. made daughter a desk. made myself a shot weighted mallet with the scraps. floors are hickory, counter tops are white oak.
my recents...
Storm came, power company cut walnut, left it lay. I grabbed it, slabbed it, dried it three years. made daughter a desk. made myself a shot weighted mallet with the scraps. floors are hickory, counter tops are white oak.
Beauty of a bench. A nice workbench really ups your game when woodworking. Made mine out of Red Oak, weighs a ton and takes a ton of abuse.
I haven't posted any projects on here for a while so here's a few now that this thread is up and running.
Chair and table made from black walnut, my preferred species.
Some bandsaw boxes from scrap pieces;
And a few cherry lounge chairs sunnying themselves as I'm about to deliver them to my upholstery guy;
I feel like an outlier, in that my stuff is far from as nice as what most of you are posting... Most of my wood is still drying, I'm pretty new to CSM.
I was pretty proud of the straight even cut lines I got milling the day I cut the legs & I left them alone other than a brush up with a wire brush. One's cherry, the other's walnut, and the top is poplar, legs pocket holed and dovetail slotted from back.
I got lucky & my sharpening was on point... It made the milling exceptionally smooth and fast compared to other days when I first started
I was pretty proud of the straight even cut lines I got milling the day I cut the legs & I left them alone other than a brush up with a wire brush. One's cherry, the other's walnut, and the top is poplar, legs pocket holed and dovetail slotted from back.
I got lucky & my sharpening was on point... It made the milling exceptionally smooth and fast compared to other days when I first started
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Ripandsplit
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That is an epic gen shed ! Brilliant job
dallasm1
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Timber hackery from local red cedar...... for the grandson.
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