Lately my work has been making boards - splitting, riving and hewing. Then into the shop for planing. Trying to turn this red oak log into boards before it gets away from me in the summer weather. The chips and shavings turn into great heaps, there’s firewood to be cut from the waste and in the shop the boards are standing all around until I sort them out and stack them in spaces I have yet to find.
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