Ok, for those that want to see it, here's what I did today.
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That looks like it going to make some nice tables and you will also have a nice pile of saw dust also.
I've already hauled off two full wheelbarrow loads of sawdust. Put it under the baby's swing incase she falls. Wife's idea.
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I did 3 more slabs today and can probably get 3 or 4 more out of this log for a total of 11 or 12 2" thick slabs from this one log.
And there's 4 other logs to do too. bleh. I'm tired already.
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What's the tank at the end of the chain bar? Is it a chain oiler?
Yup. Extra chain oiler. The saw oiler will not oil the chain enough on the 60" bar by itself.
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Looks like Husqvarna needs to get your release so that they can use those pics for their next comercial. Great thread. It is great to see what everyone uses their Ex for.
Here's some of the other things my Excursion has hauled recently:
Stumps anyone? (This was one of 5 loads of stumps/dirt to the dump.)
Load of Cypress limbs. Took about 2 hours by myself to stack them up and then carry them with the skid steer the 200 yards or so out to the street. I couldn't get the truck any closer. (Not bad for $200)
These logs and the stumps all came from a lot that I cleared off for my for my sister. I'll get to find out tomorrow how much this load of logs weighs. I'm guessing ~8k lbs. I also have probably 2 more loads I'll be taking of logs just like these to the pulp wood mill. Pays a wopping $18 per ton. Hardly worth messing with.
Also, the truck really isn't sagging like it looks like in the picture. The rear tire is next to a drainage culvert and the whole truck looked like it was sitting low even before I loaded the logs. The RAS has really helped with the sag.
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Just checked this thread for the first time--the slabs are beautiful! (sorry, just can't bring myself to say "beautiful wood" to another guy).
How long does it take you to make one of those cuts?
Did you finish already? If not, did the owner ever give any thought to cutting some the other way, to make round tables?
I had a section of red cedar that was logged off my property when I lived in Western WA that was similar in diameter to those pieces of oak, I kept an end that was about 1 foot thick, and over 4' in diameter, that I wanted to make a tabletop out of, but as a round table (can't seem to come up with a good way to describe it, but picture looking straight down on the stump from above--that perspective). Didn't get the table made before we moved back to Alaska, and the government won't move "firewood", so I couldn't bring it with me...Would look really cool, if the restaurant wants some round tables too.
Just an idea--that I never got to follow through on.
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Just checked this thread for the first time--the slabs are beautiful! (sorry, just can't bring myself to say "beautiful wood" to another guy).
How long does it take you to make one of those cuts?
Did you finish already? If not, did the owner ever give any thought to cutting some the other way, to make round tables?
I had a section of red cedar that was logged off my property when I lived in Western WA that was similar in diameter to those pieces of oak, I kept an end that was about 1 foot thick, and over 4' in diameter, that I wanted to make a tabletop out of, but as a round table (can't seem to come up with a good way to describe it, but picture looking straight down on the stump from above--that perspective). Didn't get the table made before we moved back to Alaska, and the government won't move "firewood", so I couldn't bring it with me...Would look really cool, if the restaurant wants some round tables too.
Just an idea--that I never got to follow through on.
Some of the wider pieces took a little more than one tank of gas. The saw will run WOT for about 13-14 minutes on one tank.
Cutting the slab is only a small portion of the time involved. There is a lot of setting up getting ready to make the cut and then repositioning and resharpening between cuts. I can make 2 or 3 full slabs and then the chain need to be resharpened. That's about 15-20 minutes right there to sharpen a chain that goes around a 60" bar.
The problem with trying to make a round table is that the wood will check and crack. Always. There just isn't anyway around that. The wood, when exposed like that, dries at different rates and will crack. About the only way you could do it is to cut the round into a few pie-like pieces, let them dry, and then piece them back together somehow.
Even small pieces cut like cookies will crack. Try it sometime. You'll be amazed how fast it cracks.
I've cut 14 slabs so far. (One log.) I was all set up to cut a bunch today but my chainsaw broke again. The drive sproket that turns the chain split into 2 pieces. Oh well. It was time to replace that anyways. I hope I can find the part locally so I don't have to wait too long.
The stack of slabs is over 5' tall right now with 2"x4" ripped down to 2"x2" "stickers" separating them. I plan on delivering that stack tomorrow to the guy so I have room to slab the other 4 logs.
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The problem with trying to make a round table is that the wood will check and crack. Always. There just isn't anyway around that. The wood, when exposed like that, dries at different rates and will crack. About the only way you could do it is to cut the round into a few pie-like pieces, let them dry, and then piece them back together somehow.
Guess I'm glad I didn't follow through on my plan. It's funny though, that round sat outside for 2 years and never cracked. Maybe it was the wood type, or just because it was thicker?
It's a bit of a bummer--I had 5 truckloads of red cedar and Douglas fir logged off my two acres (and it was still a wooded lot!). I had that round and a section that was just under 6 feet long, and about 3.5' in diameter that the mill wouldn't take, so they left it there. I had visions of getting someone to carve a bear out of that log--again, didn't get it done, and no way was the Army going to move that one. I ended up leaving it.
It would have been really cool to have something made from that wood that I could keep as a memento of our time in Washington. Oh, well.
It's cool that they're making something permanent from that tree. Even cooler that you're getting in on it. Something you can tell the grandkids about..."back in the day".
They'll never believe the story about a gas-powered behemoth that towed a trailer with 4 of those sections on it, and enough room inside to carry 8 grownups in comfort...
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