When you get to know bushcraft, you get to know many things. As one like above - winter is an ideal time to get your timber sorted 
And I have been waiting looooong for this! In these days it's hard to wait for 6 months or more, just to do what you had in mind, but I like playing by natures rules as it makes me rest a bit more and wait a little longer then I expected.
First of all, I like wood! I like carving spoons, kuksas and I like constructing different things too. I have a few bushcrafty building projects under way and for all this ''WOOD NEEDED!...'' so I started my wood quest in an early January. I was sure that I need to get fresh cut timbers, then get it cut up in my back yard and sort it out myself at home. It is a lot of trouble, but well worth it as you can keep all the remaining bits and bobs as well as saw dust for mulch (great value for the money too)... so lets get some wood!
Took me a while, as we live in forestless area, where farmers made sure to get rid of all the obstacles in their way. But about 3 weeks ago I got a call and they finally found some freshly cut pine tree's. And late evening a huge truck came my way delivering 25 cubic meters of wood. 62 pieces in count.
Was proud like a child so took a pic of myself there too
Called a company that has this huge mobile band saw and in a few days we had a sawmill set up just there on the spot.
In two days time almost nothing left to be cut.
Unsorted boards and timber with a lot of different dimensions there.
When the sawmill had left we spent another two days sorting out the boards by dimensions into different piles. I kept some of the timber thick for large building projects and some boards thin for small stuff. You need all kind, but it's a lot of work to sort it out properly, a lot of quality could be lost if that's not done right.
I followed an old tradition and kept a lot of boards ''once cut''. That means that you do not square up the board but leave it natural as it is.
You can see a pile of them growing on right side in the picture on top. They need extra work to clean the bark, but you do not loose a bit of wood.
And they can be made square any time anyway... in the background you can see and old neighbours barn that's falling apart but has been build from this kind of ''left overs'' - once cut boards.
And the best tool to clean the board is a draw knife or a shovel MAKE SURE IT'S SHARP.
I've been spending a few quiet evenings there just making the best of the rest remaining left overs and still some construction materials are coming up
And from scrap we build this to keep the wood dry:
I kept all the very heavy stuff and most of the ''once cut boards'' outdoors and stacked the nice square boards inside.
And for framing I bought up some round timber at about 3 meters long and 14-18cm in width. They come as second hand from transportation of other timber and cost at ,,,,,,,
,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
,,,,,,,,, 1,5 pounds each
hehe, that should keep me busy during summer
what do you recon?
Andy
And I have been waiting looooong for this! In these days it's hard to wait for 6 months or more, just to do what you had in mind, but I like playing by natures rules as it makes me rest a bit more and wait a little longer then I expected.First of all, I like wood! I like carving spoons, kuksas and I like constructing different things too. I have a few bushcrafty building projects under way and for all this ''WOOD NEEDED!...'' so I started my wood quest in an early January. I was sure that I need to get fresh cut timbers, then get it cut up in my back yard and sort it out myself at home. It is a lot of trouble, but well worth it as you can keep all the remaining bits and bobs as well as saw dust for mulch (great value for the money too)... so lets get some wood!
Took me a while, as we live in forestless area, where farmers made sure to get rid of all the obstacles in their way. But about 3 weeks ago I got a call and they finally found some freshly cut pine tree's. And late evening a huge truck came my way delivering 25 cubic meters of wood. 62 pieces in count.
Was proud like a child so took a pic of myself there too
Called a company that has this huge mobile band saw and in a few days we had a sawmill set up just there on the spot.
In two days time almost nothing left to be cut.
Unsorted boards and timber with a lot of different dimensions there.
When the sawmill had left we spent another two days sorting out the boards by dimensions into different piles. I kept some of the timber thick for large building projects and some boards thin for small stuff. You need all kind, but it's a lot of work to sort it out properly, a lot of quality could be lost if that's not done right.
I followed an old tradition and kept a lot of boards ''once cut''. That means that you do not square up the board but leave it natural as it is.
You can see a pile of them growing on right side in the picture on top. They need extra work to clean the bark, but you do not loose a bit of wood.
And they can be made square any time anyway... in the background you can see and old neighbours barn that's falling apart but has been build from this kind of ''left overs'' - once cut boards.
And the best tool to clean the board is a draw knife or a shovel
MAKE SURE IT'S SHARP.
I've been spending a few quiet evenings there just making the best of the rest remaining left overs and still some construction materials are coming up
And from scrap we build this to keep the wood dry:
I kept all the very heavy stuff and most of the ''once cut boards'' outdoors and stacked the nice square boards inside.
And for framing I bought up some round timber at about 3 meters long and 14-18cm in width. They come as second hand from transportation of other timber and cost at ,,,,,,,
,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
,,,,,,,,, 1,5 pounds each
hehe, that should keep me busy during summer
what do you recon?
Andy
