Is there a reason I can't just cut down the oak tree in my yard and use the wood to provide additional framing to a sagging floor in my house?
Is there a reason I can't just cut down the oak tree in my yard and use the wood to provide additional framing to a sagging floor in my house?
Yes, that's not the correct way to repair your floor.
The tree could be protected
Surely my chain saw could cut through any protection a tree could muster.
yes but the government might give you a 5 figure fine
time, the wood needs to be seasoned/dry slapping in a piece of wet wood will shrink with connectors being so good now a days it will pull your house with it.
I am aware it would need to dry, but approximately how long would that take? is this a couple weeks or a couple years?
I already have a permit to cut it down, its just a matter of if i can use the wood myself or not. If not its just going in the firewood pile
If you're making 2x12's or whatever then they will be ready to use in a few months. If you're making thicc ass beams then you might want to let them dry for a year or two.
Depends on the climate too.
It's one year per inch. Since you'd want something thick for framing a floor, that's not gonna happen anytime soon.
Also I kinda morally object to someone that clearly has zero clue cutting down an oak tree to make something with it that very likely won't work
The tree already needs to be cut down you tree hugging Black person, the purpose of the question is asking if i can recycle it or not
If it's your house and you have a sagging floor, then I don't see any reason why you couldn't do what you're thinking. Anything is better than just letting it get worse
How big is this tree anyway? I know a guy with a big band saw that cuts trees into slabs or whatever they call em, you could prolly make enough money selling those to buy some plain ol 2x6s for your floor joists. Or just sell off the tree to a guy who is into that shit. Or sell the wood off to guys into BBQing, or for firewood, or whatever other shit
But yeah, cut that fricker into roughly 2x6s and use them, I'd do it just to see how it works out
if you have to ask you certainly can't do it lol
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the local israelites probably made it illegal through copous amounts of 'evniromentar regubations xD'
if i want to cut down a tree on my property, i have to first inform the county, after they approve me using my own property, I then inform every neighbor that i am chopping down le tree so that their fee fees do not hurt and so they arent scared by the noises and so they can have enough time to file a formal complaint about me doing things with my own property if they disagree with the chop chop.
Yes trees are made of wood
It needs a government stamp to be within code.