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Ummm...thought they throw this wood away #7563659
04/19/22 06:34 PM
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Amite county Mississippi
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Yeahhhh I thought they usually throw this wood away at the Mills but I guess..... Marketing?
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Re: Ummm...thought they throw this wood away [Re: Wolfdog91] #7563666
04/19/22 06:40 PM
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Northern lower Michigan
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Called live edge boards. I operate a big mill, nothing is thrown away. I grind and sell bark, screen and sell sawdust.


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Re: Ummm...thought they throw this wood away [Re: Wolfdog91] #7563667
04/19/22 06:40 PM
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A lot of people like making furniture out of live edge wood.

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Re: Ummm...thought they throw this wood away [Re: Wolfdog91] #7563668
04/19/22 06:42 PM
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It's a big deal right now.


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Re: Ummm...thought they throw this wood away [Re: Wolfdog91] #7563669
04/19/22 06:45 PM
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Salesville OH
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Yeah live edge is the hot ticket right now. People will pay way more for a knarley ruff looking slab of wood than nice regular lumber.

Re: Ummm...thought they throw this wood away [Re: Wolfdog91] #7563670
04/19/22 06:45 PM
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I think around here it is advertised as Live edge.... used for shelving, mantels, etc.

Re: Ummm...thought they throw this wood away [Re: Wolfdog91] #7563709
04/19/22 07:44 PM
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Live edge wood in this area is a wanted item.

Re: Ummm...thought they throw this wood away [Re: Wolfdog91] #7563711
04/19/22 07:46 PM
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Really big thing here live edge and knots, what we used to burn as junk wood in the cabinet business we now use. crazy

Re: Ummm...thought they throw this wood away [Re: Wolfdog91] #7563725
04/19/22 08:25 PM
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We call it wane at the mill and we are allowed so much per board. Other then the knots a lot of those look like #1 boards.


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Re: Ummm...thought they throw this wood away [Re: Wolfdog91] #7564033
04/20/22 08:40 AM
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They are harvesting younger trees every year to help fill orders. When I first got I to construction my boss complained about the quality of wood. He would sort through the pile and send back anything he rejected. Mot of what he sent back would be considered #1 or select today.


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Re: Ummm...thought they throw this wood away [Re: Wolfdog91] #7564063
04/20/22 09:20 AM
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Re: Ummm...thought they throw this wood away [Re: Wolfdog91] #7564355
04/20/22 03:38 PM
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When I was in the military there was a guy from Iowa I think it was, who drove around looking for abandoned buildings to buy the wood. He only was interested in boards that had vertical siding. Not sure why that was; never asked him. That was in the late 60s.


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Re: Ummm...thought they throw this wood away [Re: Wolfdog91] #7564379
04/20/22 04:09 PM
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Last year I cut some board and posts with my Alaskan saw mill to build the chicken coop after I saw the lumber prices. I had one slab 2 1/2 inches thick live edge that had the shape of a bottle as I cut it out of a crotch. The admiral said that she wants to sell that board rough cut as it was. So she took a couple of pictures and sold the darn thing for 700 bucks on day two of posting the pictures online. It was red oak and not properly dried yet. People are crazy


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Re: Ummm...thought they throw this wood away [Re: Scuba1] #7564428
04/20/22 05:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Scuba1
Last year I cut some board and posts with my Alaskan saw mill to build the chicken coop after I saw the lumber prices. I had one slab 2 1/2 inches thick live edge that had the shape of a bottle as I cut it out of a crotch. The admiral said that she wants to sell that board rough cut as it was. So she took a couple of pictures and sold the darn thing for 700 bucks on day two of posting the pictures online. It was red oak and not properly dried yet. People are crazy


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Can you post a picture of what that $700.00 Board looked like ?

Re: Ummm...thought they throw this wood away [Re: Wolfdog91] #7564446
04/20/22 05:18 PM
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Not the exact board but it was the one I cut out of the crutch of this log. I would have thrown it away and the only reason that I cutie was that I was to lazy to re adjust the mill frame and thought ill do two cuts to get the junk out toad then I'll be back in the useful stuff.



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Re: Ummm...thought they throw this wood away [Re: Wolfdog91] #7564525
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About 1000 board feet of air-dried, 10/4, live-edge walnut I had milled two years ago. The owners were going to chop it up for firewood but didn’t have a saw big enough for the main trunk.

About $15,000-$20,000 worth of wood there at current market prices.

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Re: Ummm...thought they throw this wood away [Re: Lugnut] #7564532
04/20/22 06:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Lugnut
About 1000 board feet of air-dried, 10/4, live-edge walnut I had milled two years ago. The owners were going to chop it up for firewood but didn’t have a saw big enough for the main trunk.

About $15,000-$20,000 worth of wood there at current market prices.

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Re: Ummm...thought they throw this wood away [Re: Lugnut] #7564561
04/20/22 06:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Lugnut
About 1000 board feet of air-dried, 10/4, live-edge walnut I had milled two years ago. The owners were going to chop it up for firewood but didn’t have a saw big enough for the main trunk.

About $15,000-$20,000 worth of wood there at current market prices.

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Impressive.


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Re: Ummm...thought they throw this wood away [Re: Wolfdog91] #7564627
04/20/22 07:32 PM
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Here's a few juniper table tops with bark edge we clear coated this week . The bar was a large single slab , not sure why I have no pic , I'll have to get one it's pretty cool


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Re: Ummm...thought they throw this wood away [Re: Wolfdog91] #7564643
04/20/22 07:41 PM
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Just run it through an edger and you have regular boards.


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