John Bartley
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you mentione the slabes being usuful are talking the slab wood on the first cut or are you talking about thick cuts on the log????
That would be the first cut Larry. I've always called the first cut on a raw edge the slab. The second sets of boards with two clean faces and one or two raw edges I've called flitches and then boards have four clean edges. I know that heavy boards (planks) are sometimes called slabs also but I guess technically they are just thick boards. I usually edge the flitches on the mill to make boards.
The slabs are a gold mine of narrow boards, and depending on how thick the first slab has had to be cut you can get some nice quarter sawn stuff. On my mill the biggest log I can cut is 29", and the highest I can set my band is 22", so the first slab can be as thick as 7". There's a lot of lumber in a 7" thick slab.
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