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<\/a>Then we had Dave Scheiber of Bent Tree Sawmill<\/a> bring his portable sawmill out and turn the logs into lumber.<\/p>\n Dave’s phone number is prominently displayed in the photo above. Give him a call if you need some logs sawed![1]<\/a><\/p>\n This is the coolest tree we cut.<\/p>\n It’s a spalted maple. Spalting is caused by a fungus that infects the tree and makes these flame patterns in the wood.<\/p>\n It’s so cool another picture is in order.<\/p>\n I had Dave cut it into 2 inch thick slabs and leave one side natural with the bark on. I plan to make a slab table with natural sides out of it.<\/p>\n We saved the best log for last. A huge red oak about 30 inches in diameter and over 16 feet long.<\/p>\n It weighed easily 3000 pounds, including Bernie who is trotting across the top of it.<\/p>\n All those logs resulted in lumber.<\/p>\n Fencing boards and hay wagon flooring and furniture boards.<\/p>\n The slabs of spalted maple and other boards.<\/p>\n Big pieces of oak for the underpinnings of a hay wagon. Those big slabs of oak on the left are 3 1\/2″ by 10″ by 16′ and weigh a good 150 pounds each.<\/p>\n Alas it wasn’t all sawdust and good times. We ruined one of Dave’s saw blades on this.<\/p>\n A lag screw someone had screwed into a log a good 8 feet off the ground. That brought the operation to a screeching halt. Fortunately it was the only foreign object we encountered.<\/p>\n We also ended up with about 6 pickup loads of slab wood, the rounded parts of bark and sapwood you cut off the log so you get a square piece to start slicing boards from. We cut the slabs into short pieces to burn in the fireplace next winter.<\/p>\n It was hard work and took a lot of time, but the end result of a huge pile of lumber and firewood is very satisfying.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>
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