Project by Dan Krager | posted 07-08-2014 01:24 AM | 2437 views | 4 times favorited | 16 comments | ![]() |
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This is ALL wood, a very dense hard wood known in the midwest as hedge or osage orange. It is a very beautiful yellow green when “green”, and it will turn to a rusty brown then barn gray as it weathers. It will not rot. Not difficult to work when green, but when cured and dry will clean the teeth off your saw.
This is now standing proudly on the farm from which it came, along with a mighty harvest of its relatives.
DanK
-- DanK All my life I've wanted to be someone. I see now I should have been more specific.
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ShaneA
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#1 posted 07-08-2014 01:55 AM
Well done. Looks very stout.
Jerry
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#2 posted 07-08-2014 06:31 AM
Ohhh, this is beautiful.
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Jonathan
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#3 posted 07-08-2014 09:31 AM
Nice Dan. I like the trestle design.
I could use some non rotting wood back east!
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Monte Pittman
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#4 posted 07-08-2014 09:32 AM
I will bet it is very heavy. Excellent job.
-- Nature created it, I just assemble it.
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#5 posted 07-08-2014 11:26 AM
Wow, that’s awesome :-)
Sheila Landry (scrollgirl)
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#6 posted 07-08-2014 11:48 AM
Wow. That is beautiful! :)
Sheila
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#7 posted 07-08-2014 01:44 PM
That is great and nobody will be able to walk off with it. :)
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#8 posted 07-08-2014 07:04 PM
Really nice work Dan.
-- Paul, Duvall, WA
CampD
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#9 posted 07-08-2014 08:31 PM
Now that’s a picnic table!
Lifetime of memories to be made on that.
-- Doug...
gfadvm
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#10 posted 07-09-2014 12:14 AM
That should outlast you! And probably don’t want to move it around too often. Hedge may be tough to work with but you created a very nice table/benches unit!
-- " I'll try to be nicer, if you'll try to be smarter" gfadvm
fbo52
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#11 posted 07-09-2014 01:44 PM
Nice job lots of Osage Orange down here in OK French traders called it Bois D’Arc
-- John, Owasso OK Boomer Sooner
helluvawreck
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#12 posted 07-09-2014 02:30 PM
I don’t think this table is going to run off anywhere. It’s nice work and very creative.
helluvawreck aka Charles
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Dan Krager
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#13 posted 07-11-2014 03:08 AM
Thank you, one and all.
Yes, the table is very heavy, estimated at 250 lbs. The benches are another 80 lbs each. The top comes off without tools, having been installed into French dovetails that secure it for lifting.
DanK
-- DanK All my life I've wanted to be someone. I see now I should have been more specific.
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#14 posted 07-30-2014 05:01 PM
gorgeous.
-- Jeff, eastern Wa
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#15 posted 10-21-2015 03:19 AM
That looks terrific Dan. You’ve mentioned the top being held by French dovetails, but how is the rest held together?
I’ve got some big thick maple branches, and a new HF sawmill, and I’d like to mill them for something like this.
-- -- Jim, Cumberland,RI -- Life is all the other stuff you do when you're not in the shop. - http://www.woodshopshed.com
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