Jeff's cedar log

[Tom]

Yeah, I aim as good as I can. I been told I miss sometimes.  So, sometimes I'm aimish and sometimes I'm missive.

[Bud Man]

OK  Tom  Aim at telling me how the Amish, Jeff,  and Tom look at furn a ture and enlighten this Dim-Witted Southerner  "PLEASE"  I ain't learned anything all day and: I'm Hungry"

[Tom]

Ok, Budman,

Tom says there isn't any bad wood. What won't sell you have to market.  If a customer can't make anything out of it, it's because he hasn't discovered how.  Slabs make rustic furniture, limbs and trims make legs and armrests.  Trim boards with wane make trim boards in a house or frames for pictures and mirrors.  Swell butts cut to 4 inch thickness make supports for a mantles.  Why square but 3 sides of a mantle, the natural edge wane is pretty?

Cedar slabs with little limbs sticking out can be nailed to the wall on a porch and used for a hat or coat rack.

Little stobs and limbs and irregular pieces make drawer pulls.

Waney pieces can be used inside if you don't want them seen.

Dotey cedar can be used for the floor of the chest.

Fill the Dote with toys and fill the holes with resin.  Makes a good table top.

Cedar sawdust in sock or bean bag makes a sachet that sells for one to five dollars.

The challenge isn't selling the wood, it's marketing the idea.

Some of the prettiest furniture I've ever seen came from a rustic builder.  I'm of a mind that some of this absolutely perfect, no knot, no fault, mirror finish, furniture should be made out of plastic.  Wood is a living thing why should we expect it to be fault free?


Before you throw your next slab away, cogitate on how you could make something out of it.

[Bud Man]

My wife say's if I think any more and put one more thing in the garage, she's gonna set fire to the whole thing.     Think I'll build a shed in the lower 40 , she don't ever go down there, mouse ran up her leg the last time she did.  That furn a turn thinking sounds like it musta ben thought up by a fellow a little short of operating capital, sounds like my kinda thinking.  Before I throw anything away I ask myself what would it cost to replace this and can I : "Make Someone Happy While I Make A Buck" or should I close my eyes and pitch It ?   Thank's for the explanation !!  Pretty near applies to everything !!

[Bud Man]

Well Jeff B, ain't heard no more bout that Cedar Eater- Cedar log ? Did you ever get it and have you whittled it up yet or dropped it be the Amish work shop, eh !!

[Jeff]

Nope, aint got it yet. Been to busy. Next weekend I have the Michigan Association of Timbermens convention. Hope cedar dont eat my log!

No, I will not drop it off at the amish, I am having to much fun making my own creations. The bench Stacy and I did is now complete with 6 coats of urethane. looks good. I am now working on a stand using the top of that same birch tree and a hunk of the Red Cedar we sawed when I was down to Toms.

I will post some pictures when it's done. Cedar Eater are you still out there?

[timberbeast]

CedarEater,  you have no idea how familiar those pix look to me!!! .  Even the basement!!  What fence company you sell to and what kinda prices you get/cord?  My guy gives 140/cord for 75" bolts,  60/cord for 75" posts,  95/cord for 100" posts,  170/cord for 100" bolts,  and 200/cord for 9'3" bolts.  I think you're right about the bigger stuff.  Anything over 10 inch gets cut up on the mill,  the lumber pays more.
Jeff,  if you ever get to the U.P. in my area this summer and make it to my shack,  you can have all of those stumps you can fit in the Ranger  (hee hee,  we'd have to cut them first),  but seriously,  I'll find some cool ones and throw them aside (off'n the ground),  if you never get them,  I'll use them for something.  I bargain hard,  too.  You bring the six pack,  I'll make the steaks,  the campfire,  and even heat up the sauna.  (if I can find enough days to get out of this dadgummed foundry!!)

[Jeff]

Beast, be sure to let me know when your heading up.  Beer for steak sounds like a deal. Yea throw them cool stumps aside, I think I found me an enjoyable hobby with this, its not painting, but it gives you that same feeling when you make sumpthun

[timberbeast]

Heck,  if I get my tractor fixed,  you kin even play with the Mobile Dimension.  No,  it ain't painting,  but even my Mom seldom has time to paint,  and she's retired!  But all the paintings on my walls are hers.  I think the one thing that would make things easier for all of us would be if sleeping was optional!!

[Cedar Eater]

I'm still here and I haven't munched Jeff's log yet. It's sitting in a different spot because it rolled downhill when that cold white stuff melted out from under it. I moved it and set it up on sleepers.

We've been planting seedling trees (320 of them) at our Spruce property. 100 each of white pine, red pine and blue spruce plus 20 hardwoods. We got them from the CD. We're starting a windbreak and prepping a future homesite.

I sell my cedar to Better Best Cedar Post and Fence Co. in Hubbard Lake (the town not the lake). I got $90/cord for 100" posts (3"+), $130 for 75" bolts (6"+) and $200 for 100" logs (9"+).
That's all they buy.

[timberbeast]

Sounds pretty similar,  Cedar!  Hate to give up the bigger stuff,  though,  since I have a mill.  Been thinking about something that sounds crazy.....will start a post on it soon,  maybe if I'm not nuts you and I can retire to just playing in the woods in a bit of time.  Has to do with Japan,  coming soon after I sleep on it!!
You know,  Jeff's going to check for bite marks on that log!!!

[Jeff]

No bite Marks!

[timberbeast]

That's one pretty log!!!