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I've been remodeling an old farmhouse on one corner of my property, and am recovering the outside with board and batten siding combined with live-edge siding under the eaves. All of the siding has been kiln dried.
As per Arky's recommendations in an earlier post, I am planing all of my siding. This past weekend we planed over 5000 square feet of 4/4 SYP, and in the process filled up two 5 yard dump truck loads with shavings from the planer.
Just for grins, I decided to make the porch trim boards from a single board. The porch is 40' long, and so I milled some 1 x 12 x 40's on my Peterson sawmill.
Here are some photos of the 40' boards during the planing process:
(modified to include revised photo with higher resolution).
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December 25, 2007, 12:20:17 am »
DanG!
How many people could do that? It is great when you can do something really unique like that to give a place a special character. That is not something that a person can go out and buy. Really special, Scott.
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December 25, 2007, 12:23:22 am »
That's something you can do, WDH. I wish I could sometimes. I always get requests for stuff longer than I can cut. If I could cut that 43', they'd ask for 50'.
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December 25, 2007, 12:50:12 am »
That reminds me of Tim Garrison, owner of the Perkinston MS WM facility. He has a LT 15 set up to cut long timbers ( pics in Stew's gallery). He said cutting long stuff is not hard, the hard part is finding a tree big enough that is straight enough to cut what you want.
Good going Scott.
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Yep, thats some long boards right there. Really cool, Scott! But the really, really cool thing is that someday after you're dead and gone and nobody knows who did that, somebody's gonna say, "Hey, look at that! That's one long board all the way across this whole house! I wonder who did that?!?"
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Yea Scott, you oughta sign and date it on the back side with a permanent marker because one day it will come off and maybe someone will see it. When I start building furniture I am going to sign in inconspicious places.
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December 25, 2007, 03:34:47 am »
Nice boards!! I was looking at a logosol newspaper, they had the guinness book of records 2x4 in there. I can't remember, I think it was 80-90' long. Some guy sawed it out of a spruce in sweden if I remember right.
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December 25, 2007, 07:49:34 am »
Cool stuff Scott!
I'm with the other guys, sign and date the back of that board.
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December 25, 2007, 08:07:57 am »
That second picture looks almost fake,but I know it's not.Just don't see board like that.Thanks for the pictures.
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yeah, especially in 1x12.
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December 25, 2007, 08:12:20 am »
Great looking stuff Scott. I agree with the other guys - a signature would be cool. But I think you should get a personalized branding iron and put your brand on the outside. Can't wait to see the finished project.
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December 25, 2007, 10:24:48 am »
I need to cut some 24' 2"x8"'s for a friend and I though that would be long
Great pics and most certanly sign that board.
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go to any box store lumber desk & try ordering that, great job
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December 25, 2007, 11:48:33 am »
Scott,
Did you have any trouble with snipe when you planed those long boards? I just wondered with all the weight way out on the one end how they did.
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December 25, 2007, 03:06:04 pm »
I knew he got all of that track for somethin'
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Guys, thanks for the comments and advice re signing the board! I'll do that (and one of the reasons that I made it that long - other than "because I can" is to see folk's reaction as they study the board and try to find a splice!
Landon, I have a problem with snipe on the last few inches of my planed boards with my planer. I have the bed rollers set up a bit in order to help feed the boards, and at each end sometimes I'll get some snipe. If you feed one board right behind another it helps to limit it. I did not have a problem with the planer feeding the board though (20" spiral insert cutterhead 7.5HP 3phase Grizzly Z series). I used some roller tables on the infeed and outfeed and also helped to push/pull the board through.
I like your "branding iron" idea too!
Thecfarm - re the photo quality - yeah, it's a bit blurry. I reduced the quality quite a bit in order to upload it, and it was starting to get dark when I took the photo. I had to back up so far to get the entire board into the picture that the flash was ineffective.
Here's another shot of the board going through the planer:
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Scott, that one photo is only 4k not 40 and the last one is only 13. You gotta lotta room for more quality if ya wanna try again.
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December 25, 2007, 04:03:14 pm »
Nice board! :
I have a roller system I made from a roller deck out of the local beer store, it's 12 ft. long with staggered rollers the entire length of it
It's great for those long boards but never have I tried anything close to that board length.
Hope you don't have to cross a busy road with it!
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I did not mean the picture was blurry or anything else that may be wrong with the picture.I'm the last one to say anything bad.I don't do much better at times either.Sorry you took it the wrong way.I did not notice that.The picture just seems so unreal.Look how wide the board is for staters.And than the lenght.That's something you don't see every day.I don't want you to think that I'm picking this great feat apart. A good job by you and your helpers.
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December 25, 2007, 04:56:17 pm »
I have an idea of what could be done with those boards.
You could make 1"x12"x12" cutting boards out of em.
(Nice job and you have the FF record for length as I see it)
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