For Sale Lumber in the Fort Knox area - Page 2 - Woodworking Talk

evolution.727 · 09-21-2008, 11:44 PM

so do i what a small world

evolution.727 · 09-29-2008, 01:44 AM

Looking to get some contact info from you about lumber?

dirtclod · 10-02-2008, 02:55 PM

Eveloution.727 - I have sent you another pm.

In the meantime, I thought y'all would like to see some walnut flitches we cut last winter. It's all bookmatched, and most contains crotchwood. They were cut 5/4. The next two photos were taken this morning:

Here's one small log taken just after it was cut:

And a nice flitch:

wooddynamics · 10-29-2008, 05:52 PM

Looking for lumber material for my shop in Englewood, FL.
Contact me:
pcollom2@comcast.net
941-769-9040
Thanks for any help you folks can provide!

Nate1778 · 10-30-2008, 09:29 AM

Yo Dirtclod, you have any black Walnut that is about dried out. Just looking for about 100bd/ft of 4/4 ~ 5/4 stuff. I just went to look at some "Walnut" and after getting it home and built something out of it I think I got cherry instead. So my hunt for Walnut continues.........

dirtclod · 11-03-2008, 01:12 PM

Nate - Without testing I'm pretty sure the 4/4 has reached EMC. It's debatable on the 5/4. But on 4/4 I have maybe 6-700 bf ready in random widths from 7-12' long.

Got some more sugar maple stacked:

From the bottom: 8' 12/4 in 12-13" widths, 8' 12/4 turning squares, 8' 8/4, 8' 5/4 random widths up to 12", with the remainder of the boards in the stack being 5-8' 4/4 in random widths. The 17/4 beams on top are pith-centered and used for weights only. All boards were flat-sawn.

Nate1778 · 11-21-2008, 08:57 PM

Bill I appreciate the walnut................

Guys you can't go wrong with Dirtclod and his bro. Honest and fair guys and a great looking product, thanks again and I will be back........

dirtclod · 12-03-2008, 04:23 PM

Thanks Nate! [I should expect an endorsement for the size bribe we had to give you.

]

Here's an upcoming project:

That's a hornbeam. (Carpinus caroliniana: American hornbeam, blue beech, broomwood, musclewood, o-tan-tahr-te-weh, smoothbark ironwood, water beech) And for hornbeam, it's a big'n. It' has 24' of sawable log and is over 12" at the butt. [Ok, hornbeam don't get very big.] They typically don't get more than 24-27' tall. This one was over 50'. It was growing in some beech and that's what it looked like. But I suspected it was hornbeam and couldn't positively id it until it put on hops.

They are hard to harvest because of they eat chains and slap you around. Everything on them is stiff, heavy, and hard to handle.

Here's some traditional uses: knife handles, shuttle cocks for weaving looms, tool handles - especially for striking tools, plane bodies, walking canes/sticks, chess pieces, mallets, bowls, and ox yokes.

I hear it's hard to glue and takes a good burnishing polish. It's not sold often because it don't get very big and it's hard to dry without cracking.

Weather and schedule permitting we'll be milling this next month. The buck points on the log should be (starting at the butt) ~4', ~6', ~5', ~9'. This is a rare wood (particularly this big/long) and I want to cut it to order.

lucas.j.dunton · 12-04-2008, 01:05 PM

Dirtclod where is your place of business? I'm in the process of moving to Louisville and will be settled in before the holiday. I will be looking for a local sawmill for my lumber needs..

dirtclod · 12-04-2008, 04:58 PM

We're about 45-50 minutes south of Louisville between Elizabethtown and Fort Knox.

dirtclod · 12-08-2008, 05:40 PM

I have been asked by several people if we have cedar. We had very little so I didn’t want to commit. Recently we added a stack that most of the boards need work so I still didn’t want to say yes. But we added some more good stuff over the weekend:

I’m guessing there’s between 150-200 bf of 4/4 and 8/4. The 4/4 is mostly 6” wide, while the 8/4 is mostly 4” wide. Most of this is 16' long. It’s not supposed to be for sale. But we’ll be milling more cedar in the future and brother’s cedar walls can wait.

Norman Pyles · 12-09-2008, 11:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dirtclod

Thanks Nate! [I should expect an endorsement for the size bribe we had to give you.

]

Here's an upcoming project:

That's a hornbeam. (Carpinus caroliniana: American hornbeam, blue beech, broomwood, musclewood, o-tan-tahr-te-weh, smoothbark ironwood, water beech) And for hornbeam, it's a big'n. It' has 24' of sawable log and is over 12" at the butt. [Ok, hornbeam don't get very big.] They typically don't get more than 24-27' tall. This one was over 50'. It was growing in some beech and that's what it looked like. But I suspected it was hornbeam and couldn't positively id it until it put on hops.

They are hard to harvest because of they eat chains and slap you around. Everything on them is stiff, heavy, and hard to handle.

Here's some traditional uses: knife handles, shuttle cocks for weaving looms, tool handles - especially for striking tools, plane bodies, walking canes/sticks, chess pieces, mallets, bowls, and ox yokes.

I hear it's hard to glue and takes a good burnishing polish. It's not sold often because it don't get very big and it's hard to dry without cracking.

Weather and schedule permitting we'll be milling this next month. The buck points on the log should be (starting at the butt) ~4', ~6', ~5', ~9'. This is a rare wood (particularly this big/long) and I want to cut it to order.

So that's what that is, I have some of those trees growin on my property and didn't know what it was. Like you said it doesn't get very big either.

chevyll_1967 · 12-10-2008, 12:01 AM

Hey there Dirtcloud I was down ther back in early 70's spent most of summer of 75 from march thru august at Ft. Knox so Iam famailar with the area. has it changed much?

losttool · 01-08-2009, 02:22 AM

I can smell that cedar from here. Too much wood not enough time to make what you want.

MF Poor · 01-09-2009, 06:56 AM

Hey Dirtclod!

I'm just east of you a bit, over towards Mt Washington. I'm looking for some white oak stock. Quite a bit in fact. How you fixed for that? And if you would please, PM me with contact info. I'm in a buyin' mood!

dirtclod · 01-09-2009, 10:18 AM

MF Poor,

PM sent.

MF Poor · 01-09-2009, 08:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dirtclod

MF Poor,

PM sent.

GOT IT! I'll be getting in touch with-in the next week. I'll figure out what days I can get that way, then call to see which ones work best for you. The description sounds like what I have in mind too. Probably interested in most, maybe all of it. (And more later!)

rodeoweasel · 02-05-2009, 05:11 PM

Heya Dirt,
I live here in Louisville my brother and I would like to come out and see you guys I'm mainly looking for hickory and him no telling

. Looking forward to hearing from ya.

dirtclod · 02-06-2009, 04:33 PM

Be glad to see you rodeoweasel.

All the hickory I've got at the moment came out of one very colorful/unique tree. Here's a sample of a couple 6/4 flitches that were partially wetted for the picture:

My brother wasn't thinking and bastard-sawed couple small 8' logs into 1x6's. Of course they crooked. But it would make some beautiful pieces - you've just got to clean it up and cut them into smaller boards. Here's what it looked like a year ago:

I would sell that for maybe $.70 bf. if you take to whole lot. Right now it's buried on the bottom of a 6' pile and I don't want to tear it apart for just a few boards. There's also maple, sycamore and others in that pile.

We've still got two more colorful hickory logs to be milled. But it may be a while before we get to it. This will be properly sawed and I expect a higher bf price for it.

Weather is warming up here. As soon as the ground is firm we'll move the mill out to the site. There's a pile of logs waiting.