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Something like expanded metal tacked on the deck? Otherwise, I'd be concerned with using the trailer in winter.
Something like expanded metal tacked on the deck? Otherwise, I'd be concerned with using the trailer in winter.
Deck will remain slick. Odds are if it’s the type of weather that the deck will be slick, we will just drive tractors so we’ve got heat instead of being cold on a four wheeler.
Bit more work then recycling the baler belts, LOL.. Yes it needs some pockets to make it more capable.. Well done cowpoke..
Anyone ever made a router sled to bring a large slab of wood down to a uniform thickness? I’m working with this piece of black walnut, which was 1 3/8” thick at one corner and 1 3/4” thick at the opposite corner. I used 3/4” MDF to make the sled, and 2” square steel tube for the rails, and I laid the slab on a sheet of 3/4” MDF set on top of a leveled desk. The job was messy, and I need to sand down the surfaces, but the slab is now uniform in thickness all throughout.
Beautiful! That's an interesting project.
I was at the local city dump several years ago and saw a table top 3' X6' in walnut that probably came from a butcher shop or packing house. It was laminated walnut about 4" thick. The top side was hollowed out from cutting so much meat on it, and there were marks on the bottom where the feet screwed in.
Your not allowed to scavenge at the dump but I threw it into the back of the truck and took it home anyway.
Took a cabinet making class at the local vo-tech and ran it through the planer until it came out flush.
The teacher of the class(owned a cabinet building shop) was so impressed with the slab that he offered me a substantial sum for it. Back in that day, I took it.
Fast forward to today, our home has 47 trees on it, mostly walnut. Since they are mostly self pruning and break off limbs all the time, I have a pretty good collection of cured walnut logs. Just have to figure out what to do with them. Have a wood lathe and turn some turkey strikers but that's about all.
There is a guy on Facebook Marketplace that makes a living by milling salvaged and privately harvested lumber and selling it. I bought a bit of wood from him a couple of weeks ago. Really nice guy.
I've seen that sometimes he'll make a deal with the tree owner to split the lumber harvest with them to offset the cost of having him mill it. Might contact him or one of the few other sawyers on there.
Shoddy, a planer that can handle a 3’ wide slab of wood? That’s an expensive piece of equipment! Hence my poor man’s planer 
As for the walnut logs, there’s a woodworker in Texas who turns out carving mallets made from native woods. He does a beautiful job and sells the mallets fast, but he scrounges around for free wood. You might try your hand at producing those, or see if anyone local wants to buy some of those logs for a similar purpose.
As for the walnut logs, there’s a woodworker in Texas who turns out carving mallets made from native woods. He does a beautiful job and sells the mallets fast, but he scrounges around for free wood. You might try your hand at producing those, or see if anyone local wants to buy some of those logs for a similar purpose.
I've got quite a bit of walnut stashed away in a barn that came from a tree in my hunting buddy's pasture. That tree had been there since we were kids. We got it cut down, then had someone with a portable sawmill come cut it into planks. I took my portion to a feller to cut it into stock blanks. He claimed he knew what he was doing. He didn't. I think I could get at least one full length stock out of it, maybe two. Two-piece stocks, probably several. I should take one or two pieces to someone with a stock duplicator to see what we could make happen. It's been cut for several years and stored inside a barn, laying flat and off the ground, all this time.
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Shoddy, a planer that can handle a 3’ wide slab of wood? That’s an expensive piece of equipment! Hence my poor man’s planer
As for the walnut logs, there’s a woodworker in Texas who turns out carving mallets made from native woods. He does a beautiful job and sells the mallets fast, but he scrounges around for free wood. You might try your hand at producing those, or see if anyone local wants to buy some of those logs for a similar purpose.
The vo-tech’s planer had a 20hp 3 phase electric motor for power. Even then, that wide of a board took a lot of passes to clean up.
