Whatcha Sawin' ???

[pineywoods]

@paul case,  Welcome back, Sir.

yeah, we been missing you... :new_year:

[wwsjr]

Good to see you back on the Forum brother.

[WDH]

Walnut always motivates me  . 

[tule peak timber]

Another desk rubbed out today, Claro Walnut.... Rob

 

[Chuck White]

Happy Birthday, Rob.

[scully]

I look forward to sawing anything I can get my hands on . I have a small stock pile of cherry and hard maple that I don't know what I should do with ,but if I can swing it I am going to saw out a barn for myself .

[Magicman]

Since "Next Year" is "This Year", I modified the Thread Title and we can share what we are sawing today or this week or whenever.   8)

I plan to go back to the Cabin next week and postpone any sawing until the following week.

[outlawcowboy]

those are some nice ERC magicman looks like a job. Ive got about 30 ERC right now that the big end is 26" and in the process of getting more for my cabin floors and ceiling.

[Stephen1]

I am involved in sawing wood for the city of Toronto, we have 3 yards, meaning storage yards. We are converting to lumber, cants, slabs and firewood. We fill 20 yard bins with scabs, and small logs for firewood. Cants are going to a resaw for pallet wood and such. The ash on the mill I turned into live edge, book matched and we sold it for $500. We hope to start sorting the logs for grade and type. Right now we are in a race to salvage what we can, as the tub grinder is close to coming and grinding what we can not saw. It is an interesting experiment as we try to prove the city can make more money sawing than grinding.


  

  

  

 

[Jim_Rogers]

Today I have been sawing some red oak for planks and trailer decking.

The planks are going to be 1 7/8" x 10" x 10' 6" for a company that installs concrete burial vaults at cemeteries. These planks are what is under the carpet that looks like green grass beside the burial spot. The Pall bearers walk out on these to set down the casket. I've been sawing these for this company for 20 years. They use them up and/or they split or something and they need more. Sometimes twice a year, sometimes more.

On the way to making these planks I'm cutting 1 1/2" planks for the trailer decking job I've got.
It's great when you can cut for two orders at the same time.

Jim Rogers

[tule peak timber]

This morning I bought a couple of truck loads of Almond logs. They are very short at 3 feet and about 18 inches in diameter. Call me crazy , but I think this stuff is very pretty wood, we shall see..... Rob

  

 

  

[sawwood]

Saturday I was able to go to the sawmill as I have a Sycamore log I needed to trim
down to fit our Norwood mill. The log is 10' long and 26" on small end and 30" on the
big end. I just cut one side down so it will fit the mill. The flat side I will put on the
back stops and trim it so I turn it to flatten the side I cut with the chainsaw. Our mill
will only cut a 17" wide cut so I may cut it into to quarter saw it. I also have some
White Oak logs I picked up from a tree service I need to trim to fit and I took some
photos of the logs. The Sycamore had been down about two years and it is spaulded
real good. Should make some nice lumber to sell.

Sawwood

[thecfarm]

@Stephen1,now that looks like some wood.

[francismilker]

I've got a 500' live edge cedar siding job to do Saturday and other than that, I'm taking it easy. The broken ankle I suffered this past July doesn't like it when it gets below 32 for now so I'm letting it stay backed up to the wood stove as much as possible these days!

[hunz]

I just started off the week going mobile. A 32'x32' barn for a local guy is what's on the cut list. I just wrapped up all of the 1"x11"x10' board and batten today. Just a tad over 2300 bd/ft tallied today. Tomorrow we start on some yellow pine 2x4 framing. Hopefully tomorrow goes as smoothly as today did!
The customer plans to be installing the lumber within a month, and insisted on stacking the lumber this way...who knows, different strokes for different folks.


  

 

[Darrel]

Water oak, black oak, madrone, ponderosa pine, Doug fir, lodgepole pine, juniper.  I also know where there is some myrtlewood I'd like to get my hands on.

[backwoods sawyer]

No Walnut Cedar or Maple on that list  ;D

[FarmingSawyer]

Neighbor just dropped off some short pine logs...... Guess I'm beginning my year with those.....The cedar I was going to mill got buried under the snow.


 

[Magicman]

I am going to the Cabin hopefully for the rest of the week to continue on a carpentry job that I began a couple of weeks ago.  It will be cold but I can not waste time.

Next week I will be sawing two framing lumber jobs before going on probably three different "road trip" jobs.  My saw job list increased by three yesterday.  Two road trips and one local.

[Magicman]

After a month off, I finally started sawing today.


 
I'm sawing framing lumber from this whack of beetle killed SYP.  I am trying to finish two different jobs for two different customers before I make a 180 mile (one way) road trip next week.

The alarming thing was that I had a mechanical/electrical failure today.  Age had made the covering on the cable to the Setworks encoder brittle and allowed water to enter the encoder.  My Setworks was dead.


 
I finally completely disassembled the encoder and found the problem.  Water droplets on the LED lens.  I dried the water, but two parts of the optic sending and receiving unit became "unglued".  I used Goop to glue the parts back and so far the unit is working properly.  Since the entire unit was badly compromised, I made the decision to order a new encoder assembly.  It was supposed to be delivered this week, but when I checked the tracking # it said Tuesday the 20th.  I will be uneasy with this glued back together unit on a road trip next week.    :-\

[mesquite buckeye]

Uh, like mesquite. Duh. ;D

[beenthere]

MM
Good on the fix.

Couple weeks ago the wife's quilting machine X encoder appeared to fail. $220 for a new one. Turned out to just be the cable to the X-Y encoders, but that was $60.
What's an encoder run for WM? Maybe I can adapt one to the quilt machine if needed in the future  ;D

What is the resolution(hits) per revolution with the WM encoder?

[Magicman]

This encoder has a sprocket that rides the up/down chain and tells the Setworks when it has traveled the designated (inch) increments that are punched into the display.  This unit can be had for a measly $468 plus tax and shipping. 

[beenthere]

Got it.  big $$$

but two parts of the optic sending and receiving unit became "unglued".  I used Goop to glue the parts back and so far the unit is working properly.

How many "parts" are there in total? i.e. If you lose one, what fraction of a rotation will be missing?

[Magicman]

With the LED, lens, disk, window, & pickup, it's either a go or no-go situation.  It either works or it does not.  The cable was brittle and kept breaking and replacement cable was not available locally.

The real issue with me is reliability.  With the jobs that I have ahead of me, I have no time for a breakdown.