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The Iowan Path
iowabow:
Tim, Del and his son came over and helped with clearing trees from the dam this afternoon. We only have about 15 to go now
burn em up chuck:
hey guys just wanted to say good work on the passing it on, very very cool
chuck
TRACY:
Nice little thread John! I've enjoyed reading the first seven pages. You guys are having fun!
Tracy
Pappy:
OK John,what's going on in Iowa this weekend ? Looks like yall are piling up a bunch of fire wood,or maybe bow staves. ;) :)
Pappy
iowabow:
Well the "master plan" is to accomplish multiple task with one group of trees. The top of the cedars poles, 5-8 inches dia x 6-8 feet, are going to a fence project that Tim is working on at home and the bottom 15 feet to a shelter/cabin project near the campground. The larger oaks will be chainsaw milled for siding and benches and work tables. The walnut cut into boards. The osage for staves and the bitter nut cut with the chainsaw mill making 4 or more staves and two nice 12 boards. There will also be many boards cut from a couple oak logs that can be used in board and batten construction. Del and his son will use the limbs to build furniture that he sells.
Now this weekend starting at 1pm today we cut the remaining trees from the dam and Saturday morning we lumberjack the logs to the top of the dam. The cedars will be moved to an open field and placed on scrap logs to dry till mid summer then move to the building location. The dimensional lumber logs will remain on the dam where they will be sawn into lumber, stripped of their bark and ends waxed/painted.
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