Mike came up to my girlfriend's house Saturday to help me with a project for her.....remove a wall to open the dining room to the kitchen. Our plan went from a conventional 2-by header beam, to an 8x8 oak timber that she came home with, to Mike and I going back to the farm for two 8x4 timbers for columns....got to see the farmer fire up his pre-WW2 sawmill and cut an 8x10 timber down to what we needed.
The end result is this:
Talking with the farmer, some years back he built a 14ft Arthur Armstrong Broadbill that he still has, and used to carve some decoys. He showed us some white pine logs around 36" or bigger that looked to contain some really good decoy blocks....Hope he cuts them that way.
Got to see his maple syrup evaporator as well. He makes around 50 gallons/year.
Pretty neat place.
Thanks again for the help Mike
The end result is this:
Talking with the farmer, some years back he built a 14ft Arthur Armstrong Broadbill that he still has, and used to carve some decoys. He showed us some white pine logs around 36" or bigger that looked to contain some really good decoy blocks....Hope he cuts them that way.
Got to see his maple syrup evaporator as well. He makes around 50 gallons/year.
Pretty neat place.
Thanks again for the help Mike
