For Sale: Sykesville Walnut
There will be an amount of black walnut from Sykesville that I will be selling to Guild Members in good standing (dues are current).
The wood was donated. The cost per board foot will be enough to cover my expenses. At this writing your cost is not known, but is expected to be well below the best retail.
To the benefactors, I have a requirement to “give back”. Anyone who is willing to help me with the Give Back aspect will be given the wood needed to complete their donation to the Give Back agreement. Other arrangements may also apply. Feel free to ask.
As I get more pictures I will add them to the album shown below.
If you are interested, please add a comment below. If you aren’t able to log on, please use the Contact Us form to let me know you’re interested.
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Hey everyone, we are excited about the final milling of the biggest logs. We are moving the pallets from Arnold’s sawmill over to a secure storage shed where we can arrange the wood into sections, and the slabs for easier inspection. We’ll announce when you can come of the shed and pick out a slab to take now wet, or reserve and leave for kiln drying.
We move the pallets Monday and should have the wood ready for inspection by the May meeting day.
Franc, I received your Contact Us email about the walnut. We’ll probably have some kind of parking lot sale thing. You’ll be looking for thinner stock I think. Maybe you can comment with some idea of the physical characteristic for the wood you find most interesting.
Hi Gene,
I would also like some walnut, 4/4 or 8/4 boards, dried. If you need help transporting I would be glad to help out.
Dave Meh
Hi Dave,
Milling is $.50 per board foot and the solar kiln drying was $.35 per foot but on the kiln drying, I don’t have a recent actual quote from them. Also, I don’t know how much wood I will transport out to Hagerstown where the kiln is located. So the trucking costs both ways have to be added. All told though I am guessing well below $5 per foot.
Wet wood will be even less as I am not trucking it to the kiln or kiln drying.
Hi Gene,
I am interested in walnut logs you are having sawn. I plan to build a live edge coffee table, similar to the one Richard Winchester showed at one of HCWG’s monthly meetings. Ideally, a plank with two live edges 24” wide by 70” long by 2 or 3” thick. As Kiln dried what do you estimate the cost?
Dave Forester
Hi Dave,
I added some new pictures taken on Sunday the 21st. You may be interest in looking at the slab cuts for examples on size. Also, note that the two biggest logs, pictured with my truck to give an idea of scale, remain to be cut. They are two big for the mill. We are awaiting a custom chainsaw friend or Arnold’s to return from Texas in about five weeks to make some cuts. When those cuts are complete we should have an idea of slab options. Again, pricing is not yet known. More to follow…