On the way home from the beach I had the chance to drop by one of my old favorite sawmills in hope of finding materials for my tiny tables. This sawmill is located in Perry Fla and has had a lot of very large cypress slabs, pecky and birds eye along with antique sinker cypress. One of his sawmills is very old, it once belonged to Alabama's gov. George Wallaces father. (If you have a problem with the Confederate battle flag this might not be the right place for you!) It is powered by a 440 Chrysler engine and is driven off one very large flat belt. Quite a show to watch run but really scary with all the open belts, blades, shafts and rolling logs. For the cypress I picked out 3 ea. 2x6 and 4 ea 1x8 s, and picked 3ea. 2x4 and 3 ea 1x8 yellow pine. The mosquitoes were about to eat me alive so I just threw the wood in the boat and tried to escape with out lives. In the following months I hope to reduce this wood to Tiny Tables.
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