08-04-2018, 05:48 PM
(08-04-2018, 05:39 PM)bengaloo Wrote: That is awesome! You have to see the documentary Alone In The Wilderness. You will love that if you havent seen it yet!
I do woodworking. I run a sawmill on my own land, and take lumber from the tree to the mill, to the stack, then the kiln, and often times the finished product myself. Whether it be molding or flooring or even tables and such sometimes, its been busy with no end in site. Flooring is my niche tho. I make all kinds and sizes for home builders in my area. Something that has been getting more popular also is matching old molding/casing on old historical homes. Most of those profiles you'll never find at a store, so some folks are starting to hire me to make it instead of going online somewhere, which is cool.
I love lumber. There is nothing like a fresh cut log. That smell is like home to me.....
I helped my dad build their house the summer after my senior year in high school. The summer before that we had cut logs and had them sawmilled mostly into 2 X 4's to use for framing. We stacked them with strips to let air get around them, but when we came to use them the next year over half of them were too warped and twisted to use. That was a lot of wasted work. It would have been much cheaper to pay to get them kiln dried. But we thought that if you stacked them the weight would keep them from warping.
My uncle used to run a saw mill. He had a lot of craft workers who bought cedar off of him.
