O.K. I get a call from a friend last night, he says: you want some wood?, sure I say I'll come up tommorrow and take a look.
This is what hes' got. Some old growth redwood down in a creek bed. The tree is about 500 years old and been down for about 50. The figure in the burls are quite nice, one of which is not shown. The stump looks to have tight growth rings, oh about the time that Columbus was farting around in the Carribean.
Down side is the rocks that are in the root system, for the Alaskan mill, so we will need to pressure wash the roots, (a water pump will be needed to pump water out of the creek to supply the pressure washer and the fact that the wood is in a creek bed so heavy equiptment will be needed but that is not that big of a deal (says my redneck friend).
So the big question on this is (if the guys don't want to many $ for the mill). How do you think the log should be cut? Radial cut, plain sawn, quarter sawn, or crown sawn. I figure on rough cutting it to 12 X 6 and the burl slabs to 3" thick. The largest burl is approx 8 X 4 X 4 and the smallest is about 8 X 2 x 3 and that's feet not inches.
Craig
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I would help ya with the costs of sawing that big boy up.
Originally Posted by Dick Parr
