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What do you do with your slabs?

Started by cutterboy, November 04, 2010, 05:37:41 PM

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Okrafarmer

I wonder if there is some way to make bark-on slab siding, but treat it somehow so the bark stays on and bugs don't eat it? Well, probably there is no practical way.
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Some of this will be used for deer stand siding.  The rest for a bonfire.


Cedar, cypress, and some cherry slabs.
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Buck

Around here, Handicrafters would run you down for that load Magic.
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Actually you are right.  It's a matter of getting hooked up with the Handcrafters.  The first load actually went to a local Florist. 

This one held scraps and thicker stuff to be used as siding.
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redbeard

I had a fellow use some for raised garden beds and he claims that he never had any slugs (snails) get into his plants this year, He claims the bark and the rough surface detours them. We have alot of slugs in this area due to wet climate and come to think of it you dont see slugs in fir trees. So before you spend a fortune on slug bait you might want to look for a local sawmill and get some slabs there cheap!   
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r.man

My thinking is that most sawyers slab as light as possible to minimize waste but if a heavier slab is a saleable product then a decision would have to be made. Is the heavy slab worth more than the low grade, fairly undesirable board that is lost in it plus the thin slab and if it is a problem getting rid of slabs should that be considered in the equation as well. I suppose that each situation and possibly species will produce its own unique answer but I also think that considering slabs a waste product because they always have been is a mistake. Things change. The people that change with them are innovators and those that don't are......gone.
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cutterboy

Quote from: r.man on November 06, 2010, 07:29:37 PM
I also think that considering slabs a waste product because they always have been is a mistake. Things change. The people that change with them are innovators and those that don't are......gone.

Very well said r.man, I couldn't agree with you more.  Ralph
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campy

November is garlic planting time in TN, USA.

So I laid them about 6 inches apart and planted the garlic in between.

They will keep weeds down and moisture in.

Next wood chips over the spaces in the slabs.

Sawdust could be used too.

The fungi in the wood are good for the plants.




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I can ship some to you if ya need some more ;D ;D
I cut what i can for kindlineg and give away the rest and burn what don't leave but seems a waste to see all them btus go up in smoke
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Magicman

Maybe it would be better if we just forget the darn slabs, meet at the Big Texan Steakhouse, have a steak and wonder what all of the rich folks are doing.

As I said, all good threads eventually turn to good food.   food3
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Okrafarmer

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Magicman

Or a couple of slabs of Jerry's ribs.   


Jerry's ribs.



More of Jerry's ribs.


OK, or even more of Jerry's ribs.  My kind of "slabs".    food6
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paul case

those were ribs cooked by jerry werent they?

slabs for slabs sounds better than cash for clunkers to me. nothing goes to the crusher that way.  pc
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wannasaw

 Dog hunting camps like the pine slabs here for making a short lived hot fire in a barrel or truck rim, then it's off to the hunt at sun up without leaving an all day fire in camp. That could lead up to talking about food. 8)
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barbender

I burn mine in our OWB when the temps are mild, they disappear pretty quick. If I sawed daily with the woodmizer I'd never keep up with the slab pile though.
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cutterboy

Quote from: campy on November 06, 2010, 10:46:27 PM
November is garlic planting time in TN, USA.

So I laid them about 6 inches apart and planted the garlic in between.

They will keep weeds down and moisture in.

Next wood chips over the spaces in the slabs.

Sawdust could be used too.

The fungi in the wood are good for the plants.





Hey Campy, That's a very interesting idea. I've mulched with hay and grass clippings and leaves and newspaper, but never with slabs. You've got me thinking. smiley_idea
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cutterboy

Quote from: Okrafarmer on November 07, 2010, 09:08:25 AM
Anybody for a slab of bacon?

We wouldn't have trouble getting rid of that kind of slab. :D :D ;D

We wouldn't have trouble getting rid of a slab of Jerry's ribs either. Oh my my my my, they sure look good. Oh my my my my.
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