Merry Christmas and Happy New year to everyone at hearth.com. Its been a while since I have posted as a new job and fmaily activities have kept me hopping.
While I was away from hearth.com my in laws, God bless them, have been cutting wood "for fun".
They have brought home several trailer loads of ash from the woodlot we have access to less than half a mile from our yard. Some of it is burnable now as it is small to medium diameter dead and debarked "beaver killed" wood.
At the same time as they have been bringing home firewood they have started to stockpile logs suitable for milling.
This is where I start my questions.
We are hoping to mill a pile of 1 inch lumber for baseboards, trim or accent boards and for framing in the beams and ductwork in our basement.
The other use for slabs and split or weather checked boards will be for a wood shed and for our "sugar shack" for cooking out maple syrup.
I am weighing out the purchase of a saw and an alaskan mill. The mill would be brand new but I will need to find the right used saw. How old of a saw can be successfully used? I know that it won't come cheap.
The other option I am looking at is transporting the logs to a friend's bandsw mill that he has set up but the cost per board foot will be in the 40 cents range plus the transport time and costs.
There is one other mill in the area that I am trying to track down to compare pricing.
Given our cash flow I am wrestling through my options.
We have access to, for our purposes, a nearly unlimited source of ash wood within a mile of our home.
We also have several tree services that are quite open to bringing wood by our place which in many cases is mill sized pine or spruce.
While I was away from hearth.com my in laws, God bless them, have been cutting wood "for fun".
They have brought home several trailer loads of ash from the woodlot we have access to less than half a mile from our yard. Some of it is burnable now as it is small to medium diameter dead and debarked "beaver killed" wood.
At the same time as they have been bringing home firewood they have started to stockpile logs suitable for milling.
This is where I start my questions.
We are hoping to mill a pile of 1 inch lumber for baseboards, trim or accent boards and for framing in the beams and ductwork in our basement.
The other use for slabs and split or weather checked boards will be for a wood shed and for our "sugar shack" for cooking out maple syrup.
I am weighing out the purchase of a saw and an alaskan mill. The mill would be brand new but I will need to find the right used saw. How old of a saw can be successfully used? I know that it won't come cheap.
The other option I am looking at is transporting the logs to a friend's bandsw mill that he has set up but the cost per board foot will be in the 40 cents range plus the transport time and costs.
There is one other mill in the area that I am trying to track down to compare pricing.
Given our cash flow I am wrestling through my options.
We have access to, for our purposes, a nearly unlimited source of ash wood within a mile of our home.
We also have several tree services that are quite open to bringing wood by our place which in many cases is mill sized pine or spruce.