Last fall a number of trees were blown down in big storm. Most of them were either pulled out of the ground or broken off at about breast height. This spring I went up into our south woods and scavenged as many of them as I could. I got logs of Black Ash, White Oak, Red Oak, Basswood, and even one 8 footer of White Ash. My son took down a medium sized Cherry and a White Oak last fall.
I took them up to a friend's sawmill and had them sawn for various projects and to make a lot of shelving boards. I need to rebuild 4 hay wagon beds and to straighten up an outbuilding. I had 4 X 6's sawn for the hay wagons and 6 X 6's sawn for the building. We got a lot of Basswood and Black Ash boards, too.
Here are some pictures of the approximately 800 Board Feet that we sawed on Sep 9, 2009, as well as the 250Bf we sawed a couple of months ago. You can see that a few of the boards weren't that great, but they'll mostly work for me. My friend charges $125/1000BF.
