It was a pretty decent day out today, at about 30* with no wind.
I've been wanting to build a HD (heavy duty) bench in my basement, to be used as a reloading, and general purpose work bench. Because my basement is unfinished, and always will be, i just don't need anything fancy, or made like fine furniture!
SO, i hatched a plan to mill a big log into thick slabs of lumber, and have that be the bench top. I figured i'd just cut some big blocks off a second log, and use those for the legs. I also wanted shelves going up on the back of the bench to put reloading tools on.
A couple days ago, i was measureing some logs i harvested out of a pasture i cleared, and decided that a 22" (on the small end) Ash log i had, would work for this project.
So i grabbled the Ash log with my loader tractor, and moved it to the mill site,
and loaded it on the mill deck. This is a nice log!
I got started milling, by takeing an outer slab off and chainsawing it up for firewood. Eariler i had moved my sno-mobile trailor into place, to put all of the firewood on, makeing it easier to move it to the wood stove.
Anyway, i decided i wanted my table top to be 3-1/2" thick, and the shelves to be 2" thick, so i made the cuts to get what i wanted, turning the log as needed.
Takeing the outer slabs off as i go,
And continued makeing thick cuts to get the needed lumber,
Pileing it on my tractors pallet forks,
Until i was finally down to the last cut, splitting what was left of the log,
And here's the lumber i milled out of the Ash log, ready for the next stage to be made into a HD bench!
In a few days or so, i'll get to the next stage of this project!
Hope you liked the picts.,
DM
