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I picked up some maple from Paul Downes yesterday. He admitted it would be low yield boards, but hey, who doesn't like a challenge?
First off I needed to deal with the possibility that there may be a few powder post beetles still alive in this stuff. I stopped in at menards on the way home and picked up some boric acid powder. This morning I mixed up the powder with some water in a garden sprayer and went to work on them. I wet down one side, allowed it to dry in the sun, then hit the other.
Once they had been in the sun for a while and seemed quite dry I brought them inside and did my best to bandsaw out all that was worth keeping. I admit, I am no expert in pulling the top yield from rough boards. My apologies to Paul if I did not get as much out of them as you thought I should.
After the band saw came the jointer for one flat face, then I planed them all down to 1". There were some thick boards in the mix, but after dealing with checks on one face and cupping even those needed to come down to 1". Tomorrow I will plane them some more, stopping at 7/8" if I can. Then I'll go back over the entire lot and see how much useable lumber I am left with.
The three way split? A wheelbarrow of firewood, two big trash bags of saw dust, and a stack of lumber.
I think this is called Swiss cheeses maple.
First off I needed to deal with the possibility that there may be a few powder post beetles still alive in this stuff. I stopped in at menards on the way home and picked up some boric acid powder. This morning I mixed up the powder with some water in a garden sprayer and went to work on them. I wet down one side, allowed it to dry in the sun, then hit the other.
Once they had been in the sun for a while and seemed quite dry I brought them inside and did my best to bandsaw out all that was worth keeping. I admit, I am no expert in pulling the top yield from rough boards. My apologies to Paul if I did not get as much out of them as you thought I should.
After the band saw came the jointer for one flat face, then I planed them all down to 1". There were some thick boards in the mix, but after dealing with checks on one face and cupping even those needed to come down to 1". Tomorrow I will plane them some more, stopping at 7/8" if I can. Then I'll go back over the entire lot and see how much useable lumber I am left with.
The three way split? A wheelbarrow of firewood, two big trash bags of saw dust, and a stack of lumber.
I think this is called Swiss cheeses maple.
