Gday team,
I'm soon to embark on getting a fallen tree milled and then making a large dining table, both of these things I've never done before so I'm posting this in two places. I'm hoping to get some feedback/advice in this forums about the milling phase and even flag any issues you see in my plan.
So I've got a larg-ish log of ironbark that I've teed up another forum member (Sigindi, who's been a great help so far answering a lot of my questions but I thought I'd stop bothering him) to mill up. It's 6000mm long and measures about 650mm at one end and tapering to 400mm at the other. The plan is to get this milled into slabs and then make a live edge dining table measuring 2800mm x 1500mm and 40mm thick. Yes I am aware how heavy this thing is going to be, (wait till you hear what the leg/s is going to be) but my folks would prefer it to be big and thick and have to get 6 people to move it. I guess if you're gonna do it, might as well do it well. The log is not exactly gun barrel straight, has a bit of a kick at around the 4 meter mark and taper quite quickly at this point also. Looking at the butt end it is a little ringy which has me worried about how well it will cut into slabs, I'm hoping these rings don't go very far.
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Do these rings and also the slight rott/hollowing of the heartwood mean I won't be able to take slabs through that section? Are there creative ways such logs can be milled to maximise recovery? Am I being ambitious with the size of the table in relation to how much timber there will be? There is also a smaller 3000mm log from the same tree that is very straight but only measures 350mm-400mm so maybe I could use some slabs from this section as well.
I said "leg/s" before because the plan is to use the stump from the tree. Unsure whether this will be as one whole or cut straight down the middle and have one half at each end of the table. Besides the few fun days of chipping away clay, pressure cleaning and sealing the end grain asap is there anything else I should be considering with this sort of thing? The plan is to simply sit the top onto the stump using a few very large dowels or similar to stop it sliding but relying on the weight of the top and gravity to hold it down. The logic behind this is so the top and leg/s can be easily separated. I believe the spread of the rootseven once I've trimmed the mangy ones and and cleaned it all up will be substantial enough to support the top, but as I said I've never done something like this before so I'm not certain.
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Anyway, that's enough blabbering, any input would be greatly appreciated. If you think it's absolutely bonkers, more than happy for people to play the antagonist in this little story to push my to something more realistic
I'm soon to embark on getting a fallen tree milled and then making a large dining table, both of these things I've never done before so I'm posting this in two places. I'm hoping to get some feedback/advice in this forums about the milling phase and even flag any issues you see in my plan.
So I've got a larg-ish log of ironbark that I've teed up another forum member (Sigindi, who's been a great help so far answering a lot of my questions but I thought I'd stop bothering him) to mill up. It's 6000mm long and measures about 650mm at one end and tapering to 400mm at the other. The plan is to get this milled into slabs and then make a live edge dining table measuring 2800mm x 1500mm and 40mm thick. Yes I am aware how heavy this thing is going to be, (wait till you hear what the leg/s is going to be) but my folks would prefer it to be big and thick and have to get 6 people to move it. I guess if you're gonna do it, might as well do it well. The log is not exactly gun barrel straight, has a bit of a kick at around the 4 meter mark and taper quite quickly at this point also. Looking at the butt end it is a little ringy which has me worried about how well it will cut into slabs, I'm hoping these rings don't go very far.
IMAG0432.jpgIMAG0433.jpg
Do these rings and also the slight rott/hollowing of the heartwood mean I won't be able to take slabs through that section? Are there creative ways such logs can be milled to maximise recovery? Am I being ambitious with the size of the table in relation to how much timber there will be? There is also a smaller 3000mm log from the same tree that is very straight but only measures 350mm-400mm so maybe I could use some slabs from this section as well.
I said "leg/s" before because the plan is to use the stump from the tree. Unsure whether this will be as one whole or cut straight down the middle and have one half at each end of the table. Besides the few fun days of chipping away clay, pressure cleaning and sealing the end grain asap is there anything else I should be considering with this sort of thing? The plan is to simply sit the top onto the stump using a few very large dowels or similar to stop it sliding but relying on the weight of the top and gravity to hold it down. The logic behind this is so the top and leg/s can be easily separated. I believe the spread of the rootseven once I've trimmed the mangy ones and and cleaned it all up will be substantial enough to support the top, but as I said I've never done something like this before so I'm not certain.
IMAG0429.jpg
Anyway, that's enough blabbering, any input would be greatly appreciated. If you think it's absolutely bonkers, more than happy for people to play the antagonist in this little story to push my to something more realistic
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