Stu gave us a little loggin' from Tokyo, So with this morning being absolutley beautiful. I decided to go into the swamp, retrieve a black cherry that the beavers had taken down this winter, and give us a little loggin' from the other side of the world.
In the following pics we start with a 4' x9" black cherry(choke cherry, here in Ct), and are just trying to see if the 10' section still out in the swamp is worth humping up to the garage.
First pic is the log on a sled. Nothing fancy, just some scrap wood. We then mill two sides so we can get it off the sled and just use the fence as a reference.
In this log I really just want the two piece from the center 2 inches. Two one inch thick pieces form either side of dead center. You can see when the log is ripped in half that quite abit of spring force is relaeased in one photo.
We ended up with 4, 1" x7" pieces. Two are close to quarter sawn, and two are pretty much flatsawn. The bandsaw blade marks in the final pic are the result of having to stop and reposition myself to control this log at various times. It was a little heavy.
There is a lot of waste, and a lot of dust, but it was a lot of fun. Hopefully this fall those boards will become a tabletop that I have in mind. Time will tell. If nothing else it was a great way to kill the first "spring like morning".
So what do y'all think, should I go get the 10' section still out in the swamp? or leave it for the beavers?