A number of cedar beams that were cut months ago are now dried from our solar kiln and ready to be made into products. One of the products we have wanted to manufacture here on the homestead has been cedar mantels for fireplaces. Our goal is to make a number of these and take orders for custom sizes on a future website that is being built right now.
Adding a bit of rustic feel to a home is achieved by installing a red cedar mantel. These cedar beams are harvested and milled on our homestead M-14 Foley Belsaw sawmill. Then they are dried inside our homestead solar kiln and then planed, routed, sanded and then coated with a commercial grade epoxy that self levels at 1/8 of an inch.
So that is what we did today! Enjoy the photos!
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A RANDOM PICTURE OF OUR SHEEP TODAY :)