Sawing Full Time

WDH · April 19, 2019, 08:20:49 AM

Dawg,

You do nice work.

WV Sawmiller · April 19, 2019, 08:28:08 AM

Quote from: Southside on April 18, 2019, 10:45:49 PM
Quote from: WV Sawmiller on April 18, 2019, 08:32:59 PMwhich is why I think you see so many senior citizens as sawmill owning and operating members of this forum now.
Holy can 'o worms Batman... :D Some glad I didn't post that!!

Simple fact! Jeff includes that neat little age factoid with each of our poster's ID/profile and since I now fall in that elite group I figure I can post the obvious.

;)

Magicman · April 19, 2019, 09:07:54 AM

Quote from: WV Sawmiller on April 18, 2019, 08:32:59 PMsenior citizens as sawmill owning and operating members of this forum now

I am now more senior and sawing more than I ever have. Yearly sawing is steadily increasing and I am supposed to be "retired".

Percy · April 19, 2019, 11:03:19 AM

They say, "the difference between a good day and a bad day is your attitude". You have the right attitude sooooo....... good days a coming

Peter Drouin · April 19, 2019, 12:39:15 PM

And the harder you work the luckier you get. ;)

Mfrost459 · April 19, 2019, 06:05:26 PM

Congrats Deese!! Sure you will do well. You have some great mentors, learn all you can from them. Dang is right about keeping yourself healthy. Good advise. Look forward to hearing about your first year milling at the next Project.

Deese · April 20, 2019, 07:08:45 AM

Did not finish yesterday and stayed at a different location last night. Running a tad behind. It's 6:07AM and it's already daylight. I've got some help showing up at 8AM so things should go a little faster. You all have a great day!

YellowHammer · April 21, 2019, 07:18:41 AM

Good job, keep it up.

Deese · April 22, 2019, 01:36:34 AM

Well, Saturday's sawing was challenging. Nails. Lots of them. When I hit a nail opening a log, I try to stay with that same blade and go ahead and open the other faces if possible because the likelihood of hitting another nail is much higher than usual. Then I will change the blade and continue. Sometimes that works and sometimes it does not...I also hit something deep within one log that stopped the show for about 30 minutes. I was cruising along pretty fast and the blade met something it couldn't handle and broke almost all the teeth off. Long story short, I just got back down here to finish 11 logs and relocate to another customer's property even closer to the coastline. I sharpened blades until 9:30pm, loaded them up along with 20 new blades, plus UPS is delivering more bandwheel belts and other stuff near the jobsite tomorrow. Let the sawing continue. Up in 5 hours and should be making sawdust before 6AM.

Deese · April 22, 2019, 01:40:36 AM

Here's a pic of some of the material I've produced thus far... Almost all 18'-20' long.

customsawyer · April 22, 2019, 03:12:00 AM

Glad to see you are getting your exercise in.

Southside · April 22, 2019, 07:22:35 AM

Did you ever find out what the show stopper was deep in the log?

Deese · April 22, 2019, 10:03:00 PM

Southside, I sure didn't. Never had time to check it out. Finished the job and just now got to my room. Worn slam out. I'll figure board footage here shortly. Meeting another customer and his logs early in the morning.

Deese · April 22, 2019, 11:35:45 PM

I'll triple check my math tomorrow but it looks like 8830BF. Bedtime. Back up in 6 hours. Big syp job tomorrow. I started running 1.5" wide .055" thick 7° Kasko blades today and it has turned my sawmill into a wood chewing beast. I was sawing 12" wide syp 4x12's almost as fast as you can walk. That Cat51hp was grunting today. Lumber flat as can be, even through the occasional big knot. Kicking myself for not using these earlier. Unbelievable.

Deese · April 22, 2019, 11:41:54 PM

WDH · April 23, 2019, 07:29:09 AM

That last one looks a bit PITCHY.

Bruno of NH · April 23, 2019, 08:07:02 AM

I wish we had SYP
The only stuff we get is PT all fast growth cut right down the pith.
The stuff you southern folks saw looks great.

Deese · April 23, 2019, 08:40:15 PM

Quote from: WDH on April 23, 2019, 07:29:09 AM
That last one looks a bit PITCHY.

Yes many of them were. When the sawblade would start fluttering, I knew pitch was building up under the bandwheel belts. Kept having to stop, remove blade and belt on the drive side and scrape it clean with a flathead screwdriver. I bet I did it 20 times.

Deese · April 23, 2019, 08:45:56 PM

Went to the new job this morning. Around 2x as many logs as customer said, which is good! I set up and we sawed all day long. Low production because we got all the shorter logs done first. A bunch of 6'-8' long logs. Plus I had to get them in a good routine. We just got to the 12' and 14' long logs at quitting time. Hopefully tomorrow will be a more productive day.

caveman · April 23, 2019, 09:19:48 PM

Good job Deese. Nice tight growth rings on pretty clear pine.

I appreciate the performance report on the 1 1/2" Kasco bands. John and I were talking to Richard at Jake's project about them. He stated that we would see results similar to what you described.

Deese · April 24, 2019, 11:06:41 PM

I sawed syp 1x8's and 1x10's for 11 hours straight today. Never sat down. Not once. DanG tired. Back up in 7 hours and sawing in 8. Never worked harder in my life.

Lawg Dawg · April 25, 2019, 01:06:44 AM

Git it! The harder you work...the harder you going to work!

terrifictimbersllc · April 25, 2019, 04:12:58 AM

You making me tired and I'm already tired.

ladylake · April 25, 2019, 05:02:17 AM

Quote from: Deese on April 23, 2019, 08:40:15 PM
Quote from: WDH on April 23, 2019, 07:29:09 AM
That last one looks a bit PITCHY.
Yes many of them were. When the sawblade would start fluttering, I knew pitch was building up under the bandwheel belts. Kept having to stop, remove blade and belt on the drive side and scrape it clean with a flathead screwdriver. I bet I did it 20 times.

Time for B56 belts. Steve