During the pandemic, I was looking for some rough lumber I could use for projects. In late 2020 I found a Craigslist post from someone selling some walnut lumber from a tree that had fallen on their property, and which they had milled on their sawmill.
After borrowing a friend’s trailer and driving 2 hours, I was able to see the wood in-person.
Much of the tree had been milled into slabs, but there was also one very large cant. Fortunately the seller had a tractor, and was able to load the wood onto my trailer for me. How would I unload when I got home? That was a problem I could solve in a few hours…
After unloading the smaller pieces, I was left with the large cant. Or perhaps more accurately can’t since lifting it off the trailer by hand would be impossible.
Since I planned to break it down into smaller pieces anyway, I decided to pull out my chainsaw mill and slice it up right there on the trailer, which would make unloading easier.
With everything unloaded, I stacked everything in the garage to dry a bit while I planned out a project to use the wood.
