I have a number of large pine trees that I am looking at getting taken down in the next few months. I also am potentially putting an addition on my house in about a year that will need some large beams, mostly around 18' but the largest is around 26' with a center support. I'm wondering if I could get someone to mill the trees into long 2x6 material, dry it in my conditioned crawl space, and then build a few beefy glulams in place. A full 26' seems well beyond the capacity of a trailer mill, but I'm thinking of making all 18' material and selecting around defects to build two 13' beams for the long span, or finger joint to get what I need.
Anybody got that kind of capacity? Steel and LVLs are still pretty expensive.
Anybody got that kind of capacity? Steel and LVLs are still pretty expensive.
