Putting birdseye maple hard wood floors into new home before moving in. Out with the really stinky old shag.

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Built this in a few hours for a customer while my new hardwood floors were being sanded. It's made from some old barn wood that had already been reclaimed once as a shacky little shed on the side of my new house, which I tore down, and the skid that my new hardwood floors came on.

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Logs are 12-14" diameter beetle-killed lodge pole pine. Next I'm doing a large back deck at the same location.

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Built by hand the old fashioned way out of beetle-killed lodge pole pine trees. Logs prepared by machines and assembled as kits just don't have anywhere near the same level of nostalgia, character, and whimsy as doing it by hand. There is a noticable difference. This cabin is along a hiking trail near Keystone and people are constantly stopping to check it out and raving about how cute it is. It's like the difference between a prefab log home and a real log home. Night and day.

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A major carving here. I've squeezed about as much as I possibly could out of this dead spruce. This project really showcases my full potential.

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Here are pictures of a mantel I built out of a 20" beetle-killed lodgepole pine using my big Stihl 660 and an Alaskan Mill. The finished mantel is 14" wide, 5" thick, and 90" long. Yes, it's heavy.

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Totem pole carved from beetle-killed lodgepole pine. The carving took eight days, plus a few days to build a custom scaffolding, also using beetle-killed trees, and design the pole.

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This bench measures 6' long X 18" wide X 5" thick. You won't find one of these in any store. It weighs somewheres in the range of 300-400 lbs. It's not going anywhere! I used an Alaskan Mill (a portable saw mill) and a Stihl 660 with a 25" bar (Stihl's second largest saw, only one bigger is designed to run 4' bars for cutting redwoods.)

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This here's a 4' chunk of beetle-kill carved bear cub. Admit it, he's darn near tear jerkingly cute. My Air Supply side showing through.

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