Need ideas for cedar tree to be cut

[robbyreneeward]

I have a fairly large cedar I'm going to cut down to use in our new house. It's probably 45-50' tall or so and about 16-18' straight at the bottom. It's 26" in diameter. I know we want to use it for the mantle for the fireplace and have round stock cut out as well for the stair rails. But what else could we get out of this? Thinking slabs or possibly tongue and groove? What yall think? Here's the pic of the tree.

[Playa]

That gives me an allergy headache just looking at it!

You could also look at framing doors to adjacent rooms to the the theme together throughout the house

[splitfinger]

Closets to keep the moths away.

[Bazo]

I did a natural edge mantel for my fireplace and love it.

[TimH]

I bet you could get enough board feet to make a dining table as well.

[dustoffer]

I think you may be overestimating the amount of usable lumber you will get--cut the mantle first, and then see what you can mill out of the rest of it.

[allenpeterson]

a good table top for a bar area

[Pushbutton2]

[Perkins7581]

Pm me your number and I'll send you a pic of something my uncle made out of cedar. Maybe u could post it up for me.

[Bowyer]

Here's something that you can pass down to the grandkids.

[robbyreneeward]

Pm me your number and I'll send you a pic of something my uncle made out of cedar. Maybe u could post it up for me.

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[locknload]

I'm with Splitfinger on a Cedar Closet to keep the moths away...

[robbyreneeward]

I'm with Splitfinger on a Cedar Closet to keep the moths away...

Definitely going to do cedar in the closets, even if we don't have enough from this tree to do it well buy more

[ladrones]

Maybe some flooring? Alligator juniper.

[robbyreneeward]

Maybe some flooring? Alligator juniper.

That's gorgeous but we're staining the floors