Last week, while getting ready to take the motor home out on our "shake down" trip to Standing Indian, I had to remove a small cedar tree whose branches were going to scrap us on the way out.
It's not a very big tree, only about 12" in diameter. I tossed it on the sawmill and sliced it into thin 3/8' slabs, and then put those out in the sun to dry. Being as thin as they are, it's drying very quickly and weighs almost nothing.
My plan is to run the slabs through the plainer/edger and then line one of the closets in the MH. It's a wonderful way to reuse an otherwise doomed tree and will add a nice perk to the old girl. Given the almost veneer thinness of the wood, I don't expect it to add any discernible weight. Boy does it smell good!
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