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28th January 2022, 01:19 PM #16
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28th January 2022, 02:18 PM #17
Thanks, Ian, I have seen weather boards cut that way but not backsawn boards. Intuitively it seems to involve a lot more work (ie $$$'s) to convert "cheese wedge" shapes into parallel sided boards.
Saw a demo on "colonial farming" in the 60's where a small log (~400mm diameter) was progressively split with axes and wedges into halves, quarters, eighths, sixteenths and 32nds. Some were then trimmed for fence rails, others were adzed to make barn cladding. In retrospect they were quartersawn.
It depended on the sophistication of the mill - the better your set-up, the better your yield, though the actual yield depends even more on the skill & experienced eye of the sawyer and the quality of the log being sawn. Good benchmen were the key to profitable milling....
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28th January 2022, 02:36 PM #18.
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If we decide dot do this then the way we quarter saw our stuff at the three loppers yard is what I call "lazy boys" quarter sawing. We just slab the logs and pick out the middle 4 or so slabs which are then cut longitudinally down the middle. Sometimes we cut the heartwood off these pieces but not all that often. If you have logs coming out of your ears (which we do) then it doesn't matter if we waste about half the log - well we don't really waste it - the flat sun stuff gets used for nature playground timber. We have done this to maybe less than a dozen logs
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