Just a little update on my PWRL file

[czechsonofagun]

Thanks for pictures and the story, nice as always.

 

[rox]

harv,
you are so creative, it is always so much fun to watch your projects. Love your pergola now don't kill me but I actually thought when first reading your post that they were louvered, meaning you coul open or shut them like a wood shade/shutter. You know the kind, plantation shutters I think they are called. Now how cool would that be? We put up a pergola this summer, I think I'll go ahead and post it as a topic, but covered it with tarps which amazingly has worked really well for us. Then I was thinking how cool it would be if there was a wrought iron louver that you could cover in canvas and open and close and still be 100% waterproof with the canvas.

I wonder how long it is going to be until you have to stain again in that hot exas sun. I think I'm with you, I also like the grey weathered look. Your project came out great and what a creative way to cut the wood, really creative. Thanks for sharing.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

Harvey,

How are you going to get the cedar on the frame?

I have lots of cedars, quite a few are big towards 12-14 inches. They have fallen over/killed from ice storms or been pushed over during timbering. I have them stacked all over our property trying to figure out a use.

Some old timers have used them as fence posts but the fence lines I see are rotted out at some level so I don't want to use the trees for posts.

I have a couple of uses in mind and getting the cedar on metal would be helpful.

Later,
Dan

I'll use the Logosol.uk - Innovative wood processing products by Logosol! Logosol M7 of the client to make a flat edge on one side of the log. In my mind I've been figuring out how to either use the Logosol frame and a router or make an attachment and use the dado and table saw to cut a groove into the log. The flat edge and the groove will allow me to insert a piece of angle iron into the log.

The table saw and dado blade with concept will allow me to eliminate the flat side idea and slice a groove into a log. This would be wonderful for using three inch poles for handrail caps over regular steel railings. A one inch wide groove cut deep enough to hide the channel top would make a beautiful cap rail. Especially over hand rail made with a combination of steel and cedar pickets.

Some people when they get their hands busy and their mind takes a walk go to lottery winning land. I go to the mental shop and start playing with new ways to do old things or vice versa.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

I finally got the steel brackets for the arbor painted. Miss Glenda insisted we use the tried and true secret Rustoleum recipe. I thought brown wouldn't work but she put her foot down.

The holes in the middle got there because, well, without them they looked so plain. I had the plasma in hand and just started, well, plasma-ing I guess you could say.

The lags are three eighths stainless.