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larry@stinescorner

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cleaning up and moving stuff around in the old chicken house that is attached to the barn in pa. came across this board ,one piece, I forgot to measure it ,but I will next time I go there, It was used as a partition in the old grainary room in the barn
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I'd heard that back in the lumbering days when the pine forests were being cut in Michigan,any board more than 10 inches wide cut after the Chicago fire had to be sent to Chicago for the rebuilding,by law. So any board more than 10 inches found in an old house or building meant that the building was built before the Chicago fire. Don't know if it's gospel or not,but it's the story I heard.
 
Not many chicken houses in SD with oak flooring. Must be some $4 dozen brown omega, free range, fat free, registered Barred Rock eggs. LOL
 
in the process of a deconstruction and reconstruction of a mid-19th century greek revival farmhouse.
some of the interior boards that were used behind the plaster and lathe on exterior walls are upwards of 28" wide...
unbelievable...would kill to have some of that stuff availible to work with...
so weather checked and split that i have only pryed a couple off in one piece...most of them have just made really nice firewood...they burn HOT
 
no chickens in there for quite a few years,just a storage area on the top floor,and I am reorganizing the first floor,trying to clean up my messy shop I have in there,Not a shop like most of you guys have to work on tractors,but just a plce to keep my tools and supplys in to repair the farm buildings, I am not a very good mechanic anyway,so I help the neighbor with concrete work etc, and he helps me repair my tractor if needed,and he has a mechanic shop.
 
I have worked with a very few ash boards that were 18-20" wide. Almost impossible to keep from warping. If I need a wide one from now on I'll make it up by gluing narrower ones together, whole lot easier to keep flat, and just as strong.
 
I am refinishing the basement rec. room with native sycamore I had cut on my place. I had them saw it 7/8" thick and as wide as they could. I stripped and bound the stacks and left them dry in the barn for about 8 years. The Amish just planned them for me. I had lots of boards in the 14-16" range and a few 18"

I am gonna put some sealer on them and screw them to the walls with strips put over the seams.

I have done this in my hunting cabin with Ash on one wall, Sycamore on another and red cedar on the ends. The framework and outside siding of the cabin is native oak. A wind will not blow it down.

Gene
 
Handling that log wasn't any fun. The biggest I ever sawed was 19 inch white pine boards. The base log was 39 inches & I had to keep whittling off small boards to get it down to my blade height. More trouble than it was worth but that was some perty lumber.
 
I sawed 500 bd. ft. of Yellow-Poplar once that was 22 and 1/2 inches wide, 8 & 10 ft long. All the 56" headsaw would reach thru (because of the hub on the mandrel). Counted the rings & the tree was a sapling during the Civil War.
 
i hauled logs into millersburg ohio and the mill had some old pictures on the wall of stacks of poplar boards that were 36 inches
 
I have a pine board taken from a seed cleaner that is 26" wide. Hangs on my livingroom wall with a clock installed on it.
 
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