u/jonlandit

I’m planning on building Will Beemers timber frame from the book this year and I finally found an amazing local logger to source logs from. My plan is to mill as I need cutting the joinery one log at a time. But in the interim should I be worried about these drying out at all? Would it be worthwhile to seal the ends as many of these might be sitting for a few months before I get to them?

Can’t wait to start milling these into cants and see what Timbers I can get out of each log.

Hi folks. I’m experimenting with more natural outdoor finishes. I wish I would have taken a picture of this table before but it had been sealed with some kind of film finish which peeled and looked terrible. I took a belt sander to it and am now trying to finish with a tung oil based finishes. The first layer is 50/50 pure tung oil and citrus solvent. Went on great and really looks good IMO. I know tung oil can take a long time to cure I was hoping for better weather but the night I put the first coat on it rained a little bit I had tipped the table against a wall but it looks like a few drops still made its way on and ran down the top. I was surprised to see they left marks like this as I thought tung oil was pretty water resistant.

Anyways my instinct here is to let it dry in the garage and maybe add another coat. My initial plan had been to top coat this with a finish made of bees wax, carnauba wax, polymerized tung oil, and more citrus solvent. I’m hesitant to try that until I get these water stains out though. Thoughts?

Hi folks. Went to go hook up a new implement on my tractor today and found once side of the tooling almost frozen. I was able to get it to move by taking it off and threading a pry bar through it. Have since unthreaded as far as it will go, sprayed the crap out of it with PB blaster, cleaned the threads and it’s a little easier but not much. On closer inspection it looks like the threads are disintegrating a little.

Any ideas? I’ve read you can take the grease fitting off and pound out a pin to get it to unscrew fully but haven’t gone that far yet. If you look closely you Dan see part of the threads are literally falling off.