Walnut whipped my butt today.

[johnnyllama]

  Spent the day cutting and stacking some wide walnut slabs today and now looking forward to a long soak in a hot tub of water. I find that even using the tractor with forks, and a manual winch to turn the logs, a 24-30" walnut log is as much as I can handle by myself. Boy, was it worth it in the end though. These will eventually be table tops after a period of drying. We build custom cabinetry and furniture and I'm always on the lookout for promising logs. These came from a local tree removal outfit, delivered to our door for a fee. All but one fit our mill but the last one is just too big. I may trailer that one up to Woodmizer's place in Hannibal, NY where they have a WM1000 that can handle it's 36" size.
Got a quick break between snow falls so I wanted to get these cut up and stacked before the next snow which started just as I finished up. Got enough 2 1/2" slabs for 5 table tops of 39"- 50" wide, all bookmatched plus a lot of 4/4, 5/4 and misc. parts.
  This follows up a few days of cutting ash for tops, benches and 4/4" material and a bunch of basswood 4/4" and 1/2" for apple crates. I'm running out of room!!!

  

 

  

 

[clww]

That's some pretty stuff. Well worth a band whipping. :D

[kevin19343]

Is this supposed to be a "pity me" thread? :D

Why can't "bad" things like that happen to me!

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

Beat me 'til I'm Black and Blue White.

Very, very nice job and beautiful slabs and lumber.

[goose63]

You and the saw got a work out for sure but worth it that's some good looking wood

[addysdaddy]

Can you give me a quick lesson on Book matching. I have an idea but could use the help. Have a large white birch i'd like to do.  :-\

[brianb88]

Very nice!

[Delawhere Jack]

Man does that bring back some memories! I started out with a Turner mill. Be thankful, at least yours' has hydraulic loading. Turning a 1,200lb cherry on mine had me home and in bed by 7:30pm........



 

The end result makes it all worthwhile though!  ;)

[Delawhere Jack]

Can you give me a quick lesson on Book matching. I have an idea but could use the help. Have a large white birch i'd like to do.  :-\

Basically you take two boards that came from the log adjacent to each other, then flip one over, like opening a book, and glue them up. The resulting board will appear to be a mirror image of the grain on either side of the joint.

[johnnyllama]

Del Jack,
That's a darn nice cherry log, looks like it about maxed out your winch! We have the hyd. log loaders but usually just load with the forks on loader. It's the turning and unloading/stacking that are tough. I've had some back surgeries so I try and use my head when it comes to the heavy stuff,.... sliding onto and off forks, levers, etc. It takes longer but at least I can do it. Time's not as much of a factor cutting for yourself.
  On the bookmatching you said it right. In this case I straightlined one edge of each slab. After it's dried and planed I'll true up the glue edge with a Festool rail saw. Smaller pieces get resawn for bookmatch in the shop.

[reswire]

Did Poston get a new goat?   Or did someone get his old one?   ;D ;D

At least dress this one up a little.....

[Ljohnsaw]

Very pretty wood.  That first picture looks like a pair of Pterodactyls having a staring match! :D

[Magicman]

Did Poston get a new goat?

Looks like he traded it in for a sheep.  Nice Ram.   

[addysdaddy]

Can you give me a quick lesson on Book matching. I have an idea but could use the help. Have a large white birch i'd like to do.  :-\

Basically you take two boards that came from the log adjacent to each other, then flip one over, like opening a book, and glue them up. The resulting board will appear to be a mirror image of the grain on either side of the joint.

Think I've got it. I was thinking you could only do this with the center cut but you basically slice off one side ... square it on the mill and slab the whole log pairing up every 2 slabs. 

[drobertson]

Yea! a hot tub sounds good about now!  dont' have one,, nice job for sure, boards look great!  looks like you are stacking so a FEL can pick up the stacks,, done plenty of that around here, sure makes it easy for the customers to use their tractors..

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

Did Poston get a new goat?

Looks like he traded it in for a sheep.  Nice Ram.   

Thats a goat you old goat!

[RayMO]

With Rams horns ????

[Magicman]

Thats a goat you old goat!

Da Goat don't know goat about goats.   Dall Sheep  ;D

[dboyt]

From that nice stack of boards, it looks like you prevailed.  Good job!

[Bill Gaiche]

That  is one nice stack of lumber. That kind will put a smile on your face after being whipped every time. bg

[Ocklawahaboy]

I have approx 2bf of walnut in my possession.  You drop a log like that off at my place and I'll gladly turn it like a dog looking for a place to lay down and not complain.