We decided to clear a few more trees close to the new cabin site. Some of the cedars, pines and sweet gums are big enough to mill. I’ve got a nice stack of dimensional lumber ready for building with. I should start building soon…finally! Using a Haddon Lumbermaker attached to a chainsaw to make 6×6 […]
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We had a medium sized Hickory tree that was leaning towards a future home site. We decided to fell the tree and I milled the logs into 2.5 inch slabs for air drying. I plan to use the Hickory for table or counter tops. It ended being approximately 260 board feet of Hickory milled for
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We had a large storm hit our area late October 2019. I’m still milling lumber from trees that were blown down or severely damaged from that storm. Today I’ll be working on milling 7 pine logs (8 1/2 ft long) into 1 1/2 inch thick boards. The stump is sticking out of the ground on
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We had a nice open area where the harbor freight portable garage was, so we made some more raised beds. These garden beds are made from cedar slabs, or first cuts from the chainsaw mill. I’ve been saving the good ones that have significant heart wood for building projects like this. The finished beds. 1/2
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We needed a simple garden bench to sit and watch our bees and just enjoy the little orchard we planted this year. I had some 2″ thick cedar lumber that I had previously milled with an Alaskan chainsaw mill. I found a plan that we liked on ana-white.com. The bench uses only five 2 x
We finally got enough cedar milled to start covering the walls of the workshop. My dad took these pictures while he’s been helping. We have two of the four walls done except for windows and doors.
The pole barn is about as finished as it is going to be for a while. It measures 24 feet wide by 16 deep with a 12 by 16 foot loft. For the time being it is mainly for drying lumber. The barn is stacked with 3 pines and 1 poplar tree. They are milled
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I need to build a workshop so I can have a place to do woodworking projects, maintain machines and keep myself and the tools out of the weather while I’m doing it. I have a building site selected and quite a few 8 to 12 foot logs that have been cut to 1 1/2″ thick
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I made a simple foot bridge to cross our small creek. It’s two cedar poles about 10′ long with 2″ thick cedar boards screwed into the poles.
I finally finished the kitchen cabinets in our little cabin. They are made from 3/4″ pine from our chainsaw mill with an inexpensive 1/4″ luan backer. They were super simple to build and very inexpensive. Sarah picked out the green…her favorite color. I used Kreg pocket screws to make the door frames as shown in
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