Things built, torn down and other projects.(Pictures)

#126
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MaxamusXIII said:
About finished with the 1880$ restore.
Got the old tub back from refinishing.

They want to live in it for a while but we still have the kitchen to redo and a living room fireplace
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What kind of fireplace are they doing? Brick or stone?
 
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buckfama said:
What kind of fireplace are they doing? Brick or stone?
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It has a brick fireplace with a mantle that was added and doesn't match the house. The brick is crumbling so we will rebuild the brick and replace the mantle with something that matches the house
 
#130
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Ok BF
I took down a very small smoke house at Reds family farm. Built 1880s. I used the wood to build some shutters for Reds house (she lets me live there too)
Great idea right up until I installed them.
They're freaking heavy 24 feet up
 

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MaxamusXIII said:
Ok BF
I took down a very small smoke house at Reds family farm. Built 1880s. I used the wood to build some shutters for Reds house (she lets me live there too)
Great idea right up until I installed them.
They're freaking heavy 24 feet up
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Are they oak? That old stuff is heavy, very dense. I can aksy tell you the species by feel and weight now. Lol

A lot of old hand hewn cabins had the first 2 or 3 courses hewn out of oak and the rest would be poplar because it's so much lighter and easier to put in place.
 
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buckfama said:
Are they oak? That old stuff is heavy, very dense. I can aksy tell you the species by feel and weight now. Lol

A lot of old hand hewn cabins had the first 2 or 3 courses hewn out of oak and the rest would be poplar because it's so much lighter and easier to put in place.
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They had a saw milll on the property. The old house that was torn down was all built with wood from the property. I was able to salvage trim, doors, and paneling. Used the paneling to make a headboard for Red. It's knotty pine. I believe the planking from the smokehouse was white oak. There's a bunch of white oak on the property that the family replanted way back when. Whatever it was....it's hardened over the years. I ruined a saw blade and 3 router bots making 12 shutters.
 
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Fake fireplace from a mantle out of my great grandparents house on missionary ridge. (The house burned) in master bedroom
 

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Bench on front porch made from boards salvaged off a 16th century Spanish ship sunken in Gulf of Mexico
 

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Got back on the job today. Got my old f350 back with a new transmission so life is good.

Got the first layer stripped of 1 side and part of the back. Some of the boards are 15 3/4 inches wide. Really nice oak boards. This is going to be a nice nice building. Very little termite damage. I think the asphalt shingles adsorbed hest from the sun and kept the termites out of the boards on the outet layer. The termites damage I'm finding seems limited to the horizontal layer underneath. And even then it's not major, just spots here and there.

Hope the trend continues.

But it seems like I'm back in recluse Nirvana. Lol. Suckers were everywhere today. Bet I kklled 20. HATE those suckers.
 

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This is the widest white oak boards I have ever pulled from a structure. It is 17 7/8 inches wide and about 13 feet long.. like I called them earlier..money boards.

Just stripped more today from the outside wall. Couple morr days of taking outside stuff and I can move inside and start taking up the floors. Then it will be time to pull the 2 story portion down. I need some of the oak 2x stuff and the 6x6 and 8x6 out of it for a customer.
 

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buckfama said:
This is the widest white oak boards I have ever pulled from a structure. It is 17 7/8 inches wide and about 13 feet long.. like I called them earlier..money boards.

Just stripped more today from the outside wall. Couple morr days of taking outside stuff and I can move inside and start taking up the floors. Then it will be time to pull the 2 story portion down. I need some of the oak 2x stuff and the 6x6 and 8x6 out of it for a customer.
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White oak was always the hardest to grade when I worked at the lumber yard. Just the way they laid across the chains it was hard to see the other end for pin hole knots. We had some good wide boards come through.
 
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vol_in_ar said:
what's the reason for the different widths
I would think the mill would have them the same width
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It was just the way they did things back then. They used every inch of the tree. A lot of these boards have a bark edge.. meaning it was cut from the full width of the tree. The varying width usually didn't matter in these types of structures. They were looking for an the cheapest way to cover a buding and these quick, rough cut boards were it. Most are what you would call seconds anyway. They may have knots, beetle holes, or some imperfection.

But if you wanted to cover a structure and didn't mind the varying width and didn't need a super finished look then these boards were it.

I'm also finding some poplar on the back side that gets less sun than the other side. At first I thought it was by chance but now I think they put some thought into it and did it on purpose.

Termites hate heart poplar. They will eat the white sapwood but usually leave the heartwood alone. This side is the one I'm finding the most termite damage on simply because it's shaded, the walls are closer to the ground than other areas and it seems to be wetter than the other sides.

It think they used them on purpose because they knew this side would have termite issues. I found maybe 1 or 2 poplar boards on the other walls but this one is over 60% poplar. And it seems to have worked. All the termite damage I'm seeing is to the oak boards.

Whoever built it was a pretty sharp guy and planned ahead.
 
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