1 hour ago, Danl said:

Fred, thanks for the good information.  I have the WOOD magazine plans.  I have made of few changes.  My design is using 7/8" thick matl instead of 3/4", I plan to use no plywood, I have modified the curved pieces to be angular, my drawer construction will be TS cut dovetails and Blum under mount slides, I changed the corners to allow to have legs, the bed will have a knock-down tenon/bolt design, and I want to add some inlay detail.  Your furniture pieces look nicely done.   Danl

 

 

I think those changes are really nice...especially the inlay detail, I love that. 

1 hour ago, Fred W. Hargis Jr said:

 

Well, this is woodworking and semantics can get crossed, but Wood published a plan very similar to the one with a hatch and called it a dresser (it does have the mirror attached). The pair I made was based on the Wood plan, the first with a hatch was their plan...the chest of drawers I just created using the same dimensions.

I'd call them a "Chester draws"    (Just Kidding)

 

I will echo Fred's post on hauling . I hauled 250 bf of cherry in my old Ranger and did it as Fred suggested. Ratchet the load together at the back and then ratchet from either both sides to tie down or one thru center back of it to tie downs. Of coarse tie down at the front. I would also suggest one trip, just stack it higher at home.

 

Learned my lesson with a load of ply dumped out when I left the building supply.

3 hours ago, kmealy said:

I'd call them a "Chester draws"    (Just Kidding)

 

 

That's what my mom always called them....I was a young man before I knew what the real term was.

Edited February 16, 20224 yr by Fred W. Hargis Jr

What about using a Clove Hitch in the middle of a rope

 

Method #2 in this video

 

I use it all the time tying lumber off on top of my car (one fore and one aft), out the back of the car, even on a canoe in the back of a truck. 

Take it to the tie down loops in the bed of your truck and finish it off with a truckers hitch. It works on a couple 2x4s to a good stack of lumber. The more pressure you put on the hitch the tighter it gets