Whatcha Sawin' ???

[WellandportRob]

A couple of the larger ones we tackled this year.

 

 

 

[Magicman]

   Oh My!!!

[YellowHammer]

Those are sure 'nuff hunks of wood!  

[Lawg Dawg]

Big and Beautiful!

[WDH]

I never tried sticking one in a planer...was afraid they might fly apart, but your results look really good!

With my 20" spiral head planer with the carbide inserts, I have planed a whack of them green.  Works good.  However, after you are done with the cookies, you need to plane some dry lumber to get any moisture out of the planer and the dust collection system.  They plane nice and do not fly apart.  I would not try it with an knife planer. 

[WellandportRob]

Those slabs are cut at 16/4 and 71" across.  1000lbs each, not sure who's floor will be able to handle those tables


 

[thecfarm]

Sugar maple and evergreen bows.    I wonder how many at the wedding caught that. It does look good.

[Resonator]

That's the look the bride wanted, and all I heard were compliments. (She liked the evergreen "Christmas smell"). The reception had an outdoor theme, as the exchange of vows earlier in the day was on a wooden footbridge across a creek back in the woods, with the fall leaves as a backdrop. 

[Darrel]

I sawed my first logs today!  


Ha! ha! you got the sawdust addiction   The nice thing is that it is legal but there is no therapy to get out... yet.

No therapy but there is an online support group known as Forestryforum.com 

[Lawg Dawg]

Probably be awhile before I'm sawing these! I'm just glad the long leafs I planted 15 years ago are finally having babies  8)



 

[nativewolf]

Just a thought for you lawg dog, that sandy soil you've got.  Is it 10 feet to clay or 50?  If it is deep clay you're LLP are going to respond really really well to very light fertilizer treatments.  The response on Lob plantations is pretty good but longleaf also respond really well, you have to do it during the growing season as there are not chemical attachment points in that silicone based sandy soil.  If you don't rake the straw you'll also find faster growth.  If you do rake you definitely want to start fertilizer treatments, not much, something the kids can do with a push spreader, I would have to look up the load rates but start playing with it and see what happens.  Mostly N but a bit of P & K.  

Nice photo, good to see trees and dad with young ones.  

[Magicman]

Longleafs are really neat trees but they seem to have a mind of their own.  I had some that took a couple of years to break out of the "candle".

[ellmoe]

Longleafs are really neat trees but they seem to have a mind of their own.  I had some that took a couple of years to break out of the "candle".

That's normal. As you probably know, a control burn can stimulate them out of the "grass stage". Long leaf my favorite pine lumber, but not my favorite to saw!

[Magicman]

I agree.  I hate to admit it but it probably is my least favorite to actually saw.  Sawing a cookie off of the ends is normal to remove the sap/sand concrete and a "full flow" is normal to prevent blade buildup.  :-\  But the lumber is beautiful.

[Lawg Dawg]

Just a thought for you lawg dog, that sandy soil you've got.  Is it 10 feet to clay or 50?  If it is deep clay you're LLP are going to respond really really well to very light fertilizer treatments.  The response on Lob plantations is pretty good but longleaf also respond really well, you have to do it during the growing season as there are not chemical attachment points in that silicone based sandy soil.  If you don't rake the straw you'll also find faster growth.  If you do rake you definitely want to start fertilizer treatments, not much, something the kids can do with a push spreader, I would have to look up the load rates but start playing with it and see what happens.  Mostly N but a bit of P & K.  

Nice photo, good to see trees and dad with young ones.  

Our clay is DEEP here.  Very sandy for a long way down.  We do rake these once a year and have been for the last 5 years or so.  I have a lot of bare spots in this 16 acres of LLP where the trees died, really before they got out of the ground good.  I'm going to try replanting the bare spots this winter, and probably start some fertilizing this spring.  It's definitely something I enjoy doing.  I've even had some success starting them from seed.

[SawyerTed]

Setting up to quarter saw red oak tomorrow.  

 





 

[Crusarius]

Cut my first hickory on monday. Wow that stuff is hard. Amazing what a fresh new blade will do.

[Lawg Dawg]

Some poplar live edge slabs sawed 9/4" , these are not to bad to handle this size.





Sawyer Ted, do you use the, highly prized, Clear anchorseal?

[SawyerTed]

I do use clear anchor seal.  Those logs were cut Friday so I've not sealed them yet.  There are 3 or 4 high school boys that come around two or three days a week wanting something to do.  Sealing logs and lumber is one of the things they do for me.  They will be sealed this afternoon either as logs or as lumber.

[Magicman]

Nice Tulip Dawg. ;)

Ted, that musta been a yard tree as limby as it was?

[SawyerTed]

Magicman, actually that the tree was in a wooded area that was developed in the last 5 years.  So the tree spent most of its life as a forest tree.  The section lifted by the tow truck is the third log up.  I have a request for an oak slab and thought that third log would offer some interesting figure.

The other two logs on the trailer are not nearly so knotty.

[Crossroads]

Wow! Those are some serious walnut slabs.....

[Lko67]

My first hardwood ash will say it was much easier sawing than the pine I've sawn so far. Surely made the 19 horse labor

 

[Magicman]

OK Ted, I got turned around and was thinking that it was the butt log hence the question because I saw the cut off limb.  I now see the butt log still on the trailer.  My Dad always said that it was "good to know but better to understand".  :-[

Love that Ash Lko67. 

[Lawg Dawg]

Probably nothing today! Rain is here, time to knock it out of gear!



 



 

I need more sheds!