Any of you guys ever make and lay flooring? I've got access to a lot of ash (victims of the Emerald Ash Borer) and can make cants or boards in the woods with my Alaskan Chainsaw Mill... (Recall the MS 461 I got from Craig's List back in January). Thus the cost of the raw materials is my time and chainsaw consumables. The rest is shop work... I'm thinking about doing a random width floor for my house... say nominal 4, 5 and 6 inch boards. I'm wondering, however, about nailing it down... will edge nailing 6" floor boards like the typical strip floor suffice or does it demand face nailing?
BTW, I've been milling boards up to 29" wide with the MS 461 using a Granberg mill and a 36" bar... Works pretty well and a 29" x 10.5' board is pretty impressive... two of them covers more square footage than a sheet of plywood! ;~)