December 5, 20214 yr Popular Post We are expecting snow starting tonight so I got my rear in gear and finished prepping for the slabs. All the concrete blocks are leveled, bermed, and have tent stakes on both sides to allow strapping the stack so the wind won't knock it over.
December 5, 20214 yr Author Popular Post 5 hours ago, Gene Howe said: Got plenty of stickers handy? Thats's next on the list. I plan to have about 2000, just to be sure.
December 5, 20214 yr Author Popular Post 3 hours ago, Wichman3 said: Thats's next on the list. I plan to have about 2000, just to be sure. I am planning for 100 planks, if I sticker at 16" centers that comes out to 7 stickers per layer. 100 layers = 700 stickers. 2000 gives me wiggle room I'm planning on making them 3/4 x 1 1/4, the size I use for the mini reindeer, so when I'm done there's no waste. I'm so cheap I squeeze the buffalo nickel till it poops, then compost and sell the manure.
December 6, 20214 yr 17 hours ago, Wichman3 said: I am planning for 100 planks, I must be missing something from your pic Wich. It looks like you are using 16" cap blocks for the base of your stack. 100 planks of random widths, but even at a narrow plank of 6" would only get you about 3 planks per layer. 30 layers of thin 1" boards with 29 layers of 3/4" stickers would be about 4+ foot tall. Wider planks, more layers, taller stack... thicker planks, taller stack... Have you calculated the approx. board footage of that trunk? Here is a simple plug in the numbers calculator: http://www.rdconcepts.net/StandingTree.aspx
December 6, 20214 yr I'm thinking with those concrete slabs being so narrow that when it rains with lots of weight from the wood all your levelling work will be for naught for those narrow concrete slabs will push in to the mud!! And then is not the time to start making it stronger? Edited December 6, 20214 yr by Smallpatch
December 6, 20214 yr Author 2 hours ago, Cal said: I must be missing something from your pic Wich. It looks like you are using 16" cap blocks for the base of your stack. 100 planks of random widths, but even at a narrow plank of 6" would only get you about 3 planks per layer. 30 layers of thin 1" boards with 29 layers of 3/4" stickers would be about 4+ foot tall. Wider planks, more layers, taller stack... thicker planks, taller stack... Have you calculated the approx. board footage of that trunk? Here is a simple plug in the numbers calculator: http://www.rdconcepts.net/StandingTree.aspx Cal, I won't be slabbing the entire tree. I'm going with the recommendations of the sawyer and am only going to slab up 3 or 4 sections ( he stated that limbs that have too large and angle from vertical will have a lot of internal stresses and will likely warp badly). That will leave about 100 slabs that are between 16 to 20 inches wide. I plan to stack them just as they come off the tree. Two stacks about 50 inches high.
December 6, 20214 yr Author 1 hour ago, Smallpatch said: I'm thinking with those concrete slabs being so narrow that when it rains with lots of weight from the wood all your levelling work will be for naught for those narrow concrete slabs will push in to the mud!! And then is not the time to start making it stronger? The stack are on a gravel mix that has been there for years and it never gets swampy. Of course next spring could be the one year.... The dug up area is where the previous owner piled some fill dirt an it needed to be leveled anyway. My method of leveling was to pick the lowest spot and carefully scrap down the other spots to level the whole thing (less than an inch of scraping at the most)
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