I’m trying to find out if I can get specific logs in PA where I live. We have a job of doing some minor reconstruction of an old log home. The logs in this home are 6″ to 8″ diameter. They are pure unmilled logs. Anyone know where such logs can be purchased, unmilled like that? We’re trying to match as close as possible to what we’re reconstructing.
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You didn't say what species, but any local sawmill has logs that are still round. Look up Sawmill in the fone book..or google.
Some can direct the guys that are cutters in the woods to fell what ya need maybe.
Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
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Seriously Folks, I need a home for 3 lovers of your life.
his profile says Harrisburg.
bet them amish guys in Lancaster have some laying around ...
or standing and growing.
Jeff Buck Construction
Artistry In Carpentry
Pittsburgh Pa
I'd get a permit from the NFS and cut standing dead on a game lands or where ever they send ya for a firewood permit..
I once got over 100 cords of locust logs when a tornade hit Doe Mtn Ski Area one yr. They decided to add a new ski run and gave away the felled trees..you cut, you haul..FREE.Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
"Welcome to Poo-ville, can I have your socks?Seriously Folks, I need a home for 3 lovers of your life.
Good idea, cutting standing deadwood.If at first you don't succeed, try using a hammer next time...everything needs some extra persuasion from time to time. -ME
Ya might still need to fumigate it , bringing in bugs is never smiled upon. Don't ask.Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
"Welcome to Poo-ville, can I have your socks?Seriously Folks, I need a home for 3 lovers of your life.
Re: dead wood google powder post beetle
The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.- Fyodor Dostoyevski
No need to google, I have seen more frass than you can shake a stick at.
Not all trees dead have PPB's tho' or CarpAnts or Termites..I have scads of lumber that Doud sawed for me, nary a bug. It was standing dead for quite some time, KY Coffee Tree we suspect.
There are numerous ash trees going roots up due to the emerald ash borer, and as many Pines / Hemlocks from bark borers..one just has to be cognizant of what one is harvesting.Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
"Welcome to Poo-ville, can I have your socks?Seriously Folks, I need a home for 3 lovers of your life.
My reply was mostly for the OP, no doubt you know more about wood and the critters than me.
The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.- Fyodor Dostoyevski
Sorry if I came across harsh..didn't mean to.Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
"Welcome to Poo-ville, can I have your socks?Seriously Folks, I need a home for 3 lovers of your life.
Sure, I was going to take a puppy, but you blew it ;>)
The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.- Fyodor Dostoyevski
You really know how to hurt a guy..lolSpheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
"Welcome to Poo-ville, can I have your socks?Seriously Folks, I need a home for 3 lovers of your life.