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As some may know, or may not know...I have been a hobby sawyer for quite sometime. As with most 'hobbies' around here, they must pay for themselves....MUST. Well, I can honestly say, this is the best hobby I could have hoped to find! I am actually 'booked' for milling jobs through the beginning of the year as of today. With more wanting scaled logs and quotes! If I don't watch out, I'll have to quit the 4-10hrs and just do this...but then it wouldn't be a 'hobby' any longer and I'm afraid that it too would become a nasty four letter word......work. Ms. Lyn has enough 1/4, 3/8, and 1/2 material to start a small store. I have roughly 750boardfeet stacked to air dry in the garage in ERC, Oak, and a little Pine. I have a few 5x9 inch 12ft beams to build the entry way to the backyard(swinging gate to get the mower in and out of)....timber frame jointery will start tomorrow morning! I know....this is useless without photo's. Customers Southern Red Oak slabs for making tables and such. There is also 85 actual 2x4's in the stack that are also Oak. The slabs are 21inches in width and 10ft long....they weigh almost 175lbs each(yes, carrying them to the stack was NOT fun). Close-up of the grain pattern inside a piece of White Oak crotch I cut open. This is also a customers piece. I have a bunch already for Lyn. A quick video, well it's actually a time lapse. This is 1970+ photo's of the milling of the White Oak 'chunk'.... I'm not a videographer, and I'm probably too fat for anything less then the wide angle of the GoPro I used, but the more I work, the thinner I get... On a side note, it takes about three days for the 'ache' to wear off after a weekend of milling timber, carrying tons of lumber, and everything else that goes with it. Heating pad and Advil are my friends....the checks/cash for milling sure help too. Scott (having fun and making dust) B