You could buy 36 inch planks?
Of white Cedar?
No.
No.
Not white cedar - but I know of a sawmill where the guy has a stash of 48"x5/4x16' yellow pine - .40/bd ft when I last bought it.
Not there when it was sold, but in my barn there are some wide boards. Several inside sheathing boards are 36inch, and a few 40 inches. The boards show nail holes, telling me they were used. I wonder what they tore down to salvage the lumber as the barn was built in the 1890s.
LOL, I can hear it now, " hey Joe, grab me one of those boards and hand it up to me ".
Never seen one that wide, saw a few 2 footers in my years.
Sure don't, but then I'm only 60
there was a saw mill not far from our farm and the man would custom cut and the center cut of the tree was left to the biggest cut of the tree . I have heard of 48 in but never saw one. we used to have big trees but not any more . they seem to die off before they get to 24in bob w.
Quote from: amertrac on August 03, 2012, 05:29:44 AM
there was a saw mill not far from our farm and the man would custom cut and the center cut of the tree was left to the biggest cut of the tree . I have heard of 48 in but never saw one. we used to have big trees but not any more . they seem to die off before they get to 24in bob w.
When we were rehabbing the Carpenter Shop at Sutter's Fort, we got custom cut 36 X 4 inch black oak slabs to make the work benches. Very cool stuff.
Back in my window and door making days 20 to 30 years ago, we regularly got 8/4 molding grade pine in 20 to 26 inch widths. But I never saw any 36" stuff that wasn't custom cut.
What is a tree ?
EvilDr235
Quote from: OilyRascal on August 02, 2012, 09:33:03 PM
Not white cedar - but I know of a sawmill where the guy has a stash of 48"x5/4x16' yellow pine - .40/bd ft when I last bought it.
I swear im not smoking crack ....more likely heat exhausted not thinking straight. 24" pine is what I've seen and used. If only I knew of a 48 stash
The shame of it is, when I moved to this town they could have been cutting 8' wide planks all day long.
All day!!
And they never did.
http://www.oregonlink.com/onelogload/ (http://www.oregonlink.com/onelogload/)
I never even saw 2 footers cut!
They ripped the finest doug fir on the planet down into construction 2X4's wholesaled at rock bottom price per thousand feet.
3 big mills, 24/7 production, unparallelled quality trees....
......construction lumber
sigh
yours Scott
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Good moogy doogy, now thats a saw!