The Traveling Lumberjock #6: Georgia again - Sycamore Slabs!
I’m skipping some trips here, but I was in northwestern Georgia two weeks ago. I went out to visit my friends at the Cuzzort sawmill in Trenton, GA and came back with a nice pile of sycamore. It worked out to be about 50 bf. The piece was 3.5” thick, 14.5” wide and 10 feet long. That of course would be quite difficult to get on a plane, so after some quick calculations I had them resaw it to 2” and 1.5” and then we sawed it into three sections (44”, 44”, & 32”). Why so short? Well, with those dims I didn’t have to pay any oversize/overweight checked bag fees. At a buck a board foot and no shipping costs…. This one was a...
