Last week, we finally got our downed trees from a May storm milled. For those of you who have never had the opportunity, it was definitely worth it for us. It's really neat to watch them work.
Between my uncle and me, we got around 750 bf of really nice lumber. I have around 200 bf of excellent cherry, 120 feet of nice white oak, and 130 feet of good red oak. My uncle ended up with 288 feet, around 2/3 beautiful walnut and 1/3 fair red oak.
Not bad for not much effort other than cutting the logs to length and dragging them in with the tractor.
My uncle is air drying his. Mine is in the kiln. I'm really anxious to get it back. The red oak will probably be gone within a week or two of getting it home. I'm needing to make several more raised panel cabinet doors and drawer fronts. Hopefully I can do as well as Terry Hatfield's doors in another post. They are beautiful.