MAKR CARRY GOODS – NEWS 2010

Every good independent/one-man saw mill needs a dock into a private lake.

Stacks of wood are everywhere. Some are from lawn trees that were destined for landfill and some (like the above image) are from a reclaimed dock. The fragmented ends are where they were buried in the sand for 50 years.

Seriously everywhere.

This is Bob, he runs the Mill by himself. He is digging in a protype of a new wood drying kiln developed in Japan. This is the second one in the US. He is about to receive the full size one within the next couple months. It supposedly dries the wood to a usable point in a fraction of the time and for half the energy costs. Awesomeness and progression. Bob is a badass, period.

Those are the ropes that Bob uses to move giant tree segments to be milled. Pulley systems in the garage-like structure are used and sometimes he even moves the entire Lucas Mill to where the tree is dropped off of the truck. The purpose of the trip was to find some live oak for a sign piece that Blair and Chase were working on. The bottom image is them pouring paint thinner on the raw wood to check the tonality and grain.

This is Blair. He makes beautiful things out of wood, he also smokes a pipe and has a tiny baby. Blair is awesome, thanks for letting us tag along.

I ended up with 3 large pieces of magnolia for a dinning room table that I will be building with the help of Blair and his wood shop. Really fun little day journey, next weekend we are going scalloping. Go outside.