At the Sawmill

Here is what happened to the two "hundred year" pine trees we felled to build our house.

Dan Ludwig operates an independent sawmill in Fairlee, totally "off-the-grid." He arranged to pick up my felled tree segments and to render them into usable lumber. Here is what has happened so far.

Here are the trees I cut down, sawed into planks and "stickered" to dry over the winter

A close up of the stickered boards, with a ball-point pen for scale

My trees prooved to be prettier that they were strong, so I traded some of my very desirable wide boards for these younger trees. They will be sawed to become 6x10 and 6x12 beams.

Larger Pictures Felling the trees Idle Pines Contents Page

	Here are the trees I cut down, sawed into planks and "stickered" to dry over the winter
	A close up of the stickered boards, with a ball-point pen for scale
	My trees prooved to be prettier that they were strong, so I traded some of my very desirable wide boards for these younger trees. They will be sawed to become 6x10 and 6x12 beams.