Slabs

[Randy]

It seem's to be a big waste to throw PINE slabs away(or burn). What do you sawyers do with your pine slab's?? I can give the hardwood slabs away--no one wants the pine. Randy

[Back40x2]

Find someone with an outdoor wood furnace/boiler, like me  

I burn everything, even the squirls that get in my bird boxes.  Just hope there is a south wind

[farmerdoug]

I second Back40's post.  I burn any wood I get in the oudoor boiler.  I would love those pine slabs but we have little pine around here.
By the way, why don't both you guys update your profiles and plant a tree on the members map also.

[pappy]

I like planting trees    and I think everybody should plant at least one... the soil is sooo fertile around these parts   



slabs.. I've been  sawin' into kindling length and given em away...  people have been asking "do you have any more" I tell em knot at the moment but come late summer I might, and they say when you got some I'll come and get em.... now there worth something...  $20 a load!! oh that's tooo much...


I have easier ways to dispose of them properly ...I REALLY like Bon Fires...    call up the BUDS and say "burning tonite" bring some beverages to the back 40

[Tony]

I can't even give slabs away around here, tomorrow I'll have big bonfire.

                                   

                                                      Tony

[Captain]

Had my BIG one last weekend.  8" of fresh snow, 10 gallons of oil, The wife is still policing up the area today and restarting the pile....

Captain

[Timo]

I always find they make nice fencing (for temporary pens and such). Haven't tried pine persay, but most any other wood......

[Back40x2]

   FarmerDoug,   I do have a tree planted  Run your mouse over Maine, and it will come up.  There 3or4 in a small area on a small state, but it is there

   Pappy,  Where is Wallagrass  Been here all my life, never heard of it

I love Bonfires too, but with the price of oil, I think i'll burn'em.  

[pappy]

      Pappy,  Where is Wallagrass   Been here all my life, never heard of it

Seven miles south of Fort Kent, six miles North of Eagle Lake, New Canada borders us to the east and Saint John to the west...

[Gord From Emsdale ON]

I cut and stack the small stuff for kindling for the house &  stack the bigger chunks for small fires, to sit around and have a few brews. All the rest, gets burned in big bonfires.

[Daren]

I pile my slabs, and they don't stay long (my mill is visible from the highway) lots of people heat with wood around here. Some guys drop a decent gift log and take scrap to burn. One day I was out there and a guy pulls up in a dump truck and asks what I do with the wood. I told him it is for anyone who wants it to burn. I had a heck of a pile, it took us 1/2 hour to load it. After we get done, I am resting and he says "Know what I gonna do with all that?" "I'm gonna bundle it up and sell it to campers for $3 a bundle" I live near a recreation lake with alot of campgrounds. Every gas station for 20 miles has wood in a little bundle for campers who want a campfire, but live in the city and don't have fire wood. They are maybe 15lbs, at baitshops and places real close to the lake they go for $4 a bundle. He never even thanked me, just rubbed it in my face that he was going to make a killing. The market has been cornered for a long time, or I would have done the same thing with the wood. I told him not to come back. He just kinda ticked me off. I am glad to see a guy make a buck, but all the other guys who pick up the wood try to help me find logs, go get logs...just neighborly. That guy grinned at me in a way I didn't like.

[Back40x2]

Seven miles south of Fort Kent, six miles North of Eagle Lake, New Canada borders us to the east and Saint John to the west...

   Dang!!!  You are up there aren't you.  This Mainer would have to say, "Can't get theyah from Heyah"  I have been to Van Buren.  Nothing up there.  If I was rich and never had to worry about $$$$  I would definately move up that way.  I do like it up there.  How much snow you got up theyah?  We still have about 2 feet on the ground.

Next Moose permit I get, I'll come up and you can show me the "BIG ONE"

[Ernie]

Jan loves lighting fires.  We just pile up the branches, throw on the slabs and leave Jan to it




These are Redwood and Pine


Ernie

[Arthur]

ever tried making somthing worth money?

[sigidi]

'Round here I stack all my cant's, flitches, slabs whatever ya call the bottom bit left when milling with the Lucas, and I ma fixing to make outdoor furniture like bench-type chairs, maybe th eodd coffee table if it's a bit wide, then load up the truck and go sell em at markets.

BUT,

before I do that I have to run a fenced laneway for the Alpaca, make one paddock for the Babies still suckling and one for the babies were weening off, do a few matings with the girls who have already given birth, fence out two more dog yards and finish shovelling the remainder of the 10cubic metres of gravel we have for the dogs 'floor', knock up a 'shed' for the young fella to live in while we build da house which I have to draw up the plans for.

Well they are harwood and I'm happy if they are seasoned before i get to 'em

[Arthur]

Sigidi

I have a drawing product which has been most helpful to us.  Its 3dHome.

you can design a complete home (simple design) in less than 1 hour.  You can do walk throughs, views internal and outdoors.

Ive even used it for animal shelters just to give me a shopping list.

cost a few hundred $.

It also comes with hundreds of ready done designs.

The kids have used it to design their play houses.

arthur

[pappy]

I have been to Van Buren.  Nothing up there.

Back40,
If you think VB has nuttin' Wallagrass has less    but we do have our share of swamp donkeys in these parts as does VB... If you get a moose permit give me a call and if I don't get mine maybe we could have us a hunt???

As far as snow the wife, me and a friend went for a sled ride around some countryside yesterday... at one of our vista stops I step of the Bearcat and went straight down    the snow was 8" over my belt...so that would be around 4 feet of very soft snow. was kinda difficult to climb back up onto the sled    we never did get stuck.. gotta love those long tracks... a person would need some VERY large snowshoes up in these parts to get around right now...    

[submarinesailor]

Pappy,

Will I need snowshoes when I am in Brunswick on 4 April?   Wish I had more time.  It's one of those Fly in on Sunday afternoon, have a meeting Monday morning and fly back to Virginia in the afternoon.  Love the area.  Wife and I took a timber framing class at the Shelter Institute in Woolrich back in the summer of 2002.  Stayed in a cottage overlooking one of those deep fast flowing rivers in the Bath area. 

Subsailor

[Murf]

There's an old fella near me who is pretty active still although he rents his fields out now. He had a local sawyer come in and saw up a bunch of hemlock he had to build a new shed some years back. He was also left however with a BIG pile of slabs.

He chopped them up with an old swing-table buzzsaw, bundled them up and sells them as kindling wood for the 'countrified city folk' around here. He made so much money doing it now he scrounges around all the mills and hauls away any scrap they'll let him have.

Even if you didn't make any real money at it at least it's gone.

Besides you might acquire a new customer who likes what they see when they come for firewood.

[pappy]

Will I need snowshoes when I am in Brunswick on 4 April?

Ya can never tell where the Eagle is gonna... from where ya sit...  Brunswick is two hundred miles or so south of us 

In Maine "ya don't like the weather just wait 15 minutes"
so ya might just want to consider the extra large sandals 

submarinesailor, it would take you longer to drive all the way up this far north (one way from Bath) than it'll take you to do the round trip from "Monday morning and fly back to Virginia in the afternoon"...   

Maine has many,many beautiful rivers...I've seen a very small part of what there is to experience, I spend as much free time floatin' as I can... We used to take the kids mucho when they were young... guess it's time for the grand kids... oh boy to see the wonder in a little ones eye when they see their first frog, partridge, coyote, fox or catch their first fish...

[Rockn H]

I wish I had some pictures, I really need to start an album, but I'll describe this as best I can.  It all started with the inlaws.  My wifes uncle built a (whats the word for a false fronted building?).  Anyway in their rock garden he built an old timey store front with a porch and swing.  It started there.  We take the slabs and edge them to equal width length wise per board, that is not all boards the same width, (now you just have 1" or2" strips to burn) and use them for fake log walls.  Prefab panels with 2x2 holding it together.  You can build everything from decorative covered wells to storage buildings( nothing camoflages a storage building better than a false cabin or store front complete with porch and flowers) and don't forget playhouses who wouldn't want a log cabin to play in.  You build a small project out of them and let people see it.  THEY WILL WANT YOUR SLABS.