In Kansas City, Missouri, after ice storms and on other occasions too,
the city opens a yard
http://www.kcmo.org/environ.nsf/web/...2?opendocument where without
cost you can drop off brush (branches, logs, and leaves, but nothing
else). Right now it's open because there was a recent ice storm. If you
want, you can *take away* anything there for free. The city gives away
firewood and converts some of the brush to mulch and gives that away
too.

Naturally, a lot of what makes up the pile are short logs. These are an
assortment, but many are a foot in diameter and about two feet long,
thereabouts. Easily, you can pick up thousands of logs with these
dimensions. Is there any possible use for this wood?

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* Nehmo Sergheyev *
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On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 21:30:27 GMT, "Nehmo Sergheyev"
wrote:

In Kansas City, Missouri, after ice storms and on other occasions too,
the city opens a yard
http://www.kcmo.org/environ.nsf/web/...2?opendocument where without
cost you can drop off brush (branches, logs, and leaves, but nothing
else). Right now it's open because there was a recent ice storm. If you
want, you can *take away* anything there for free. The city gives away
firewood and converts some of the brush to mulch and gives that away
too.

Naturally, a lot of what makes up the pile are short logs. These are an
assortment, but many are a foot in diameter and about two feet long,
thereabouts. Easily, you can pick up thousands of logs with these
dimensions. Is there any possible use for this wood?

Offhand I can think of a couple of hundred or so uses for wood like
this.

We don't get ice storms around here, but we do get pretty good winds
that tend to take down trees. A lot of people collect the cut-up
pieces for carving, turning, etc. They'd also be nice for cutting into
lumber for jewelry boxes and other small projects. And if you go
through the pile, I'll bet you'll find some stumps (where the whole
tree was uprooted) with really nice figure.

--RC

--RC
"Sometimes history doesn't repeat itself. It just yells
'can't you remember anything I've told you?' and lets
fly with a club.
-- John W. Cambell Jr.

On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 21:30:27 GMT, "Nehmo Sergheyev"
wrote:

In Kansas City, Missouri, after ice storms and on other occasions too,
the city opens a yard
http://www.kcmo.org/environ.nsf/web/...2?opendocument where without
cost you can drop off brush (branches, logs, and leaves, but nothing
else). Right now it's open because there was a recent ice storm. If you
want, you can *take away* anything there for free. The city gives away
firewood and converts some of the brush to mulch and gives that away
too.

Naturally, a lot of what makes up the pile are short logs. These are an
assortment, but many are a foot in diameter and about two feet long,
thereabouts. Easily, you can pick up thousands of logs with these
dimensions. Is there any possible use for this wood?



if they're green wood, and recently cut, you might find some stuff
there for turning.

- bridger -
if they're green wood, and recently cut, you might find some stuff
there for turning.

- Nehmo -
I don't have a lathe, but it looks like making bowls is fun:
http://www.customwooddesign.com/turninggreenwood-1.html
I didn't know you could use green wood that way.

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* Nehmo Sergheyev *
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On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 07:54:18 GMT, "Nehmo Sergheyev"
wrote:

- bridger -
if they're green wood, and recently cut, you might find some stuff
there for turning.

- Nehmo -
I don't have a lathe, but it looks like making bowls is fun:
http://www.customwooddesign.com/turninggreenwood-1.html
I didn't know you could use green wood that way.

You don't need a lathe for making bowls. Just gouge them out freeform.
I use a sculptor's adze (bowlmaker's adze would be better), scorp, and
woodcarver's tools. You could also cheat and use a Lancelot tool and a
router for a lot of it.

My way is time-consuming, but fun, especially in green wood.

--RC
"Sometimes history doesn't repeat itself. It just yells
'can't you remember anything I've told you?' and lets
fly with a club.
-- John W. Cambell Jr.

Nehmo Sergheyev wrote:

- bridger -
if they're green wood, and recently cut, you might find some stuff
there for turning.

- Nehmo -
I don't have a lathe, but it looks like making bowls is fun:
http://www.customwooddesign.com/turninggreenwood-1.html
I didn't know you could use green wood that way.

We have quite a number of home turned bowls from one of my wife's
cousins. He always laughs because it's obvious the bowls he made when
patience was lacking and he couldn't wait any longer for the wood to
dry. They're the ones with the most personality though. He says he's
been pretty lucky and doesn't lose very many to cracking.

Sounds just right for a furnace! Give them to me

- deanbrown3d -
Sounds just right for a furnace! Give them to me

- Nehmo -
If you pay shipping...

As I mentioned, Kansas City does give away this wood for fuel, even
though much of it is green. Some municipality in New Jersey may do the
same as Kansas City.
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* Nehmo Sergheyev *
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On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 16:49:15 GMT, "Nehmo Sergheyev" wrote:

I live south of the KC Metro. This morning I took pics of the free lumber and a
tool. Maybe, one of these days I might even find a router of TS among the free
mulch and lumber :-).


As I mentioned, Kansas City does give away this wood for fuel, even
though much of it is green. Some municipality in New Jersey may do the
same as Kansas City.

Nehmo Sergheyev wrote:

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Naturally, a lot of what makes up the pile are short logs. These are an
assortment, but many are a foot in diameter and about two feet long,
thereabouts. Easily, you can pick up thousands of logs with these
dimensions. Is there any possible use for this wood?


Head on over to a.b.p.w and look for "From One, Many" - what you
can do with fire place size split - wait for it -
Black Walnut

As a respondent noted, a metal detector is a necessity when
resawing logettes from unknow sources. Fortunately, the
paddle type metal detectors are becoming reasonably priced.

And you don't need a wide blade to turn mini-logs into useable
wood. A 1/2", 3 tpi hook tooth will do the job. A decent,
adjustable to the blade lead angle, fence is a must though.

Think - bookmatched drawer faces, jewerly boxes, small
panels ...

Wood - a terrible thing to waste.

charlie b

Nehmo Sergheyev wrote:

snip

Naturally, a lot of what makes up the pile are short logs. These are an
assortment, but many are a foot in diameter and about two feet long,
thereabouts. Easily, you can pick up thousands of logs with these
dimensions. Is there any possible use for this wood?


Head on over to a.b.p.w and look for "From One, Many" - what you
can do with fire place size split - wait for it
Black Walnut

As a respondent noted, a metal detector is a necessity when
resawing logettes from unknow sources. Fortunately, the
paddle type metal detectors are becoming reasonably priced.

And you don't need a wide blade to turn mini-logs into useable
wood. A 1/2", 3 tpi hook tooth will do the job. A decent,
adjustable to the blade lead angle, fence is a must though.

charlie b

- charlie b -
Head on over to a.b.p.w and look for "From One, Many" - what you
can do with fire place size split - wait for it
Black Walnut

As a respondent noted, a metal detector is a necessity when
resawing logettes from unknow sources. Fortunately, the
paddle type metal detectors are becoming reasonably priced.

And you don't need a wide blade to turn mini-logs into useable
wood. A 1/2", 3 tpi hook tooth will do the job. A decent,
adjustable to the blade lead angle, fence is a must though.

- Nehmo -
I went to news:alt.binaries.pictures.woodworking , but couldn't find the
subject line. You say wait, so I will. I assume you're saying it's not
posted yet.
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* Nehmo Sergheyev *
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Nehmo Sergheyev wrote:

I went to news:alt.binaries.pictures.woodworking , but couldn't find the
subject line. You say wait, so I will. I assume you're saying it's not
posted yet.

It's still there as of 12:32 am PST 1/22/05

If you can't find it I'll e-mail the images. Am working
on some illustrations of the process to go from
split log to bandsawn boards ready to sticker.
Will put more resawing stuff on my WWing site
in a day or two.

Nehmo Sergheyev wrote:

I went to news:alt.binaries.pictures.woodworking , but couldn't find the
subject line. You say wait, so I will. I assume you're saying it's not
posted yet.


Just finished putting up some pages on bandsawing mini-logs/
split firewood. Here's the page with the black walnut chunk
I just sliced up. You can back up to the "how to" and further
back to making a resaw fence and larger table top.

http://home.comcast.net/~charliebcz/Resawing3.html

The next page goes over edge joining a pair of bookmatched
boards with a hand plane. If you orient the parts right
the joined edges don't have to be square to the faces of
the boards.

The bandsaw is one versatile (sp?) machine. Though I
didn't know what I'd do with it I got the LT16SEC because
the deal was too good to pass up - $1100 total, delivered
to my shop floor. With a 2.5 hp TEFC motor it's never
bogged down. (Drive by Neener)

charlie b

On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 01:49:35 -0800, charlie b
wrote:


Just finished putting up some pages on bandsawing mini-logs/
split firewood. Here's the page with the black walnut chunk
I just sliced up. You can back up to the "how to" and further
back to making a resaw fence and larger table top.

http://home.comcast.net/~charliebcz/Resawing3.html

The next page goes over edge joining a pair of bookmatched
boards with a hand plane. If you orient the parts right
the joined edges don't have to be square to the faces of
the boards.

The bandsaw is one versatile (sp?) machine. Though I
didn't know what I'd do with it I got the LT16SEC because
the deal was too good to pass up - $1100 total, delivered
to my shop floor. With a 2.5 hp TEFC motor it's never
bogged down. (Drive by Neener)

charlie b

Inspiring.
Thanks Charlie.

"Sometimes history doesn't repeat itself. It just yells
'can't you remember anything I've told you?' and lets
fly with a club.
-- John W. Cambell Jr.