Got a hobbypak from Internet Lumber

[Jeffrey Schronce]

Sorry Jeffery, I neglected to say that we have a local band-saw portable mill guy that we hire. All in all there were three of us having lumber sawed, guess we must have sawed 10K feet of lumber in two and a half days. This guy is really good and "fast". If you are on the slab crew, believe me you will work you butt off! He has a portable computer controlled mill that does it all, powered log lifters, with a 35hp Honda engine. It can handle just about anything; we had some old pine that measured over 28" across the butt. "piece of cake" for this outfit.

Still a real good price. Seems folks with lower capacity portable mills charge lower fees but of course lower output per hour while the guys with the high end Woodmizers that can pump out 500bf an hour charge 2-3x the low capacity guys. Seems to work out about the same and in this neck of the woods its not $.10 bf !

[ragswl4]

ragswl4 i did not mean to offend you in any way i was just appalled at the price we have to pay to get something nowadays sorry if i upset you it wasn't intended

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I didn't see anything in your posts that was offensive in any way. No apology needed. Everytime I have taken offense to something said on this forum I found out later I just misunderstood the post anyway. Life's too short and besides I have yet to see a mean spirited person posting on this forum. (except that one #$%&* troll).

[padboy]

Buying Lumber

I highly recommend anyone interested, do a Google for "Barndoor Lumber".
They are in central Michigan and are one of the best sources of s4s hardwood
lumber I have ever used.

[gwyneth]

www.barndoorlumber.com

[linear]

Kind of a head scratcher for me seeing Osage Orange listed there with the "imported" stuff. They use limbs for fenceposts around here.

[blame]

Kind of a head scratcher for me seeing Osage Orange listed there with the "imported" stuff. They use limbs for fenceposts around here.

hey linear they do the same thing here people buy the stuff like crazy line post are $8 ea. corners $20 to 25 ea depending on size they will last at least 60 years in the ground

i've also seen it at woodcraft in Des Moines Ia they were trying to sell it for $21 bdft
i had some sawed up acouple of months ago and love working it its like trying to cut steal with a butterknife LOL i think i got 60 bdft for around 20 bucks

have you ever worked with it

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[jon_ramp]

hey linear they do the same thing here people buy the stuff like crazy line post are $8 ea. corners $20 to 25 ea depending on size they will last at least 60 years in the ground

There are some fence lines on my parent's farm with osage orange posts that are at least 60 years old. The posts last longer than the wire. Put some in 20 years ago when I was in high school. The stuff is so hard it is very difficult to drive a staple into it to hold the wire. We referred to them as "hedge" posts as there were two "hedge" rows that bordered the pasture where we cut out the posts.

[linear]

have you ever worked with it

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I bandsawed up a little bit of it. I never tried to make much of anything in the way of furniture out of it. It's good and hard. It's real pretty along with purpleheart.

(Sorry for hijacking the thread.)