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Saving a log from the fire pit.

A while back I was a construction site where they were removing a number of trees. One of them in particular was a large and fairly straight Mesquite tree. The guys were going to cut it up for fire wood and that just kind of pushed the wrong buttons for me. After a little chatting with the superintend I convince him  to let me have it.

This is the log and a few of the limbs.

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After some clean up this is what I was left with.

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The scrap was turn into mulch.

IMG_8104sA quick trip to the saw mill left me with some beautiful slabs.

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It is all back home.

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and stored for an upcoming project.

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It will be stored for a year to air dry out the sun and rain and then it will be kiln dried to the proper moisture content. I cut these slabs at 2 1/2 inches for stocks and to be able to re-saw for a few other projects.

A short video of the process.

 

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