Kiln Dry Lumber at Home: Kiln drying your own wood at home can be a great way to sustainably harvest the materials around you, and dry it fast enough to build furniture with. If furniture is made with wood that is too wet, it will continue to dry and crack, possibly ruining…
The information in this article is targeted to the individual who would like to learn to produce their own lumber from local resources as simply as possible.
You might be able to market and sell one or more trees from your property for timber with the help of a forester partner.
Lumber is produced by processing raw timber at saw mills. Trees are cut down in approved lumber harvesting areas and loaded onto trucks or made into barges for transport. Once they arrive at the sawmill, they are sorted for processing.
By Dave Munkittrick Want a truly cheap and easy way to dry lumber? Consider air drying. It’s the most economical method for removing water from wood, and when done properly, you’ll end up with perfect…
Freshly cut and milled wood must be cured before it can be used in construction, crafts, carvings, and even in a stove or fireplace. Throughout the curing process, the moisture content of the green wood, or freshly cut wood, is reduced....
Find the actual size of different types of lumber and learn why the actual size of dimensional lumber is smaller than the nominal size.
By Dave Munkittrick Want a truly cheap and easy way to dry lumber? Consider air drying. It’s the most economical method for removing water from wood, and when done properly, you’ll end up with perfect…
After building our home in Northern New Mexico with lumber that we sustainably harvested, hauled and milled ourselves, we decided to continue using our sawmill for our small business. Many trees ha…
Kiln dried finished lumber quote for harvest to delivery in Virginia or the mid-atlantic: gepettomillworks.com/commercial-millwork/kiln-dried-finis...
After building our home in Northern New Mexico with lumber that we sustainably harvested, hauled and milled ourselves, we decided to continue using our sawmill for our small business. Many trees ha…
If you're thinking about seasoning your own stock, there's a lot to know before you begin. But in the end, it's how you build the stack that really counts.
They trickle through the mail every few months: glossy brochures for portable saw mills that leave a woodworker wondering. Ironically, the appeal of harvesting one’s own lumber has little to do with economics.
Kiln Dry Lumber at Home: Kiln drying your own wood at home can be a great way to sustainably harvest the materials around you, and dry it fast enough to build furniture with. If furniture is made with wood that is too wet, it will continue to dry and crack, possibly ruining…
Turn freshly cut stock into a cash crop of woodworking woods. Because of the waiting time, air-drying your own lumber may not meet the needs of woodworkers who want to go to their hardwoods supplier and exit with a stack of project-ready boards. On the other hand, you may find the process both cost-effective and fun
By Dave Munkittrick…
We constructed this nifty 8x8x12' passive-solar kiln. And boy does it work, not to mention save money! Better still, we developed a plan for our kiln so you can build one just like it.
Got some wood to dry? Want to know the most effective way to prepare wood for building furniture and trim? Click to find out the answer here.
Why use chemically treated lumber for outdoor projects when you can easily go for naturally the most weather-resistant woods?
Lee, Russell,, 1903-1986,, photographer. Truck load of ponderosa pine, Edward Hines Lumber Co. operations in Malheur National Forest, Grant County, Oregon 1942 July 1 transparency : color. Notes: Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. Subjects: Lumber industry Shipping Malheur National Forest (Or.) United States--Oregon--Grant County Format: Transparencies--Color Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print Part Of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Collection 11671-16 (DLC) 93845501 General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsac.1a34228 Call Number: LC-USF35-567
Realtor/science writer/self-proclaimed “house geek” Hannah Holmes on harvesting your own lumber, Maine's drought, and more.
This is a full kitchen in a 1200 sqft TREEHOUSE! Everything in this kitchen including cabinets and stools are hand made. We purchased all the appliances from Cr…
side view of the wood kiln before installing the sides home made wood kiln debugging old barn wood ____________________________________________ When I got home from work this afternoon, I fired up …
By Dave Munkittrick…
Mother and I took a cruise down to South Cape to see if Sprigg Street is open where the sinkholes closed the road near the Cape LaCroix bridge during the spring flood. (It isn’t.) A roundish, triangular-shaped structure caught my eye to the east of Giboney Street, right around where the railyards are. I thought … Continue reading "A Shadow of M.E. Leming Lumber Company"
George Vondriska teaches you all of the essential woodworking tips and techniques you’ll need to mill logs and prepare them for use as wood flooring.
A handy reference guide and inside tips from 30 years of buying carving wood by Roger Schroeder.
