Would someone be interested in looking at some wood to evaluate whether it is useable?
I have a pile of roughsawn white (Garry) oak planks in my woodshed. (Spaced with shims to air-dry for the past three years) My best friend had the oak tree on her parent’s property sawn up when the developers wanted it taken down. She has finally admitted that she is not going to have the funds to have it made up into furniture, and said that I could burn it in my fireplace. Well, that seems like a waste, and I am thinking about using it for perhaps cabinetry or whatever, but I don’t know how to judge whether it is economically feasible to plane it into usable boards or not. Some of the wood got pretty wet when it was in her parent’s enclosed shed, before it moved to my covered but open sided shed.
I’m about a mile from the Clearview light on Highway 9, if someone in the area knows what they would need to look at to evaluate the wood.
Thanks!
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Kilroy, I'm in your general geographic area, but a ferry ride and some freeway time away, can't really fit it in! Can you take one board and run it through the planer, see what it looks like? I had a big white oak cabinet bought at an auction years ago that sat out on our deck for 3 years, in the rain. One day, I knocked it all apart, pulled the nails, and ran the boards through the planer. They looked great! Nice, full-inch-thick boards, with tight grain.
What are the thicknesses, widths and lengths of the boards? Any checking (cracks)? Chances are it is usable but will need to dry out for some time. If you have the tools to clean up a few pieces to see what you have you will know if it is good or not. I am in the Lynnwood area but not a lot of free time in the next few weeks or month (to much time at work). Maybe a few pictures can answer your question without a visit.
Charlie
I travel from Oak Harbor to Shoreline and back every week. As already posted you could run a piece through a planer and see what happens. If you don't have access to a planer I would be willing to run a piece through my planer (15") to check it out. If it is decent I would be willing to plane it all for a percentage of the wood. This is assuming the wood is clean.
How much do you have? Will it all fit in a pickup truck or are we talking a bigger load than that?
If you're willing to meet me somewhere with a sample of the wood we can start from there.
Regards,
Mack
"WISH IN ONE HAND, S--T IN THE OTHER AND SEE WHICH FILLS UP FIRST"
Thanks everyone! I have an email from someone who is *very* local to my area, and he will come take a look at it this week!
Kilroy, that's great! Let us know how it looks and what you do with it!forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)
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