Re: Places to Look. Things to Consider
ThomD
>If it is four to six inches, I think it would take 2 to 4 years around here, depending on one thing or another. Though with the right piece of wood, I am not too sure the use of greenish lumber should be discounted. You don't want your chisels or work to warp or rust on the bench, but there is a big difference between that and not having the very center perfectly dried. The FWW Roubo looked almost as though it was designed to take advantage of a piece of wood that was freshish sawn, as would have been the case in many instances. The bench is really an elaboration of a timber on trestle horses, and most of those timbers were probably relatively recently harvested.
That timber I hewed into a bench on our property a few years back was just such a project. It fell onto the beach and sat there for a while with foliage attached, then I cut it peavied it to the waters edge and towed it through the water to our house. Cut it up further, then tractored it up onto the level, hewed it and moved it into the basement. The hewing took a while, and the surface was wet when cut but quickly dried out a little. Once installed it never rusted a tool or shifted much, so far. It is somethign like 15x7 at the wide end, but mostly smaller.
I rarely worry about such things, because my chainsaw milling experience indicates I take much longer to get to it than the water takes to get out of it.
