Whatcha Sawin' ???

[Lawg Dawg]

Couldn't stand it...had to plane and finish a board of the quarter sawn white oak I cut a month ago via Robert's Reverse Roll Quarter Sawing technique...beautiful



 



 

Ought to fetch how much you think?

[Andries]

WDH, Yellowhammer, Busysawyer, Magicman and PAsawyer, thanks for the kudos.
I'll pass them along to the construction crew.
Tomorrow I'll be milling out a mantle for an outdoor fireplace.
The specs call for: " 24" at the small end, 13' long, and as gnarly as you can tolerate to put on your mill".
I'll post some photos of that when done, but here's what passed for 'gnarly' for one of the twelve mantles inside the log home.


 

I could post a sequence of photos in the 'watcha building' thread that Jim Rogers started a while back. . . . after I get finished this weeks milling - tomorrow.  :

[Briankinley2004]

Pretty sure end grain moisture readings aren't accurate. What did you get opposite? Hard to think its dried properly 1 month after milling. Pretty wood but I wouldn't sell as dry unless your are the man with a kiln

[Ianab]

Pretty sure end grain moisture readings aren't accurate.

The end grain dries a lot faster than the rest of the board. So the MC of that exact piece of wood is probably true, but doesn't accurately reflect the rest of the board.  

If you weigh the whole board, and put it back on the stack for a week. Then weigh it again. If it's got lighter, then it's still drying. If it's not changed, then the surface reading is probably accurate. 

Sweet looking board, should get a premium for it, but 1 month drying for White Oak is optimistic. 1" per year drying is a worst case, so the real drying number is something between 1 month and 1 year. 

[WDH]

Takes me about 6-8 months to air dry 1 1/8" thick white oak.  Then in the kiln for about 8 more days to get it below 10%. 

[PA_Walnut]

With the CONSTANT rain and humidity here, I think the air-dry piles are INCREASING in MC!  :-\

[Lawg Dawg]

That was a piece cut out of the middle of the board, but the log was very dry when I sawed it.  Had probably been on the ground for 9 months, so I don't know, maybe it's not really that dry, maybe it is...

[WDH]

Probably not.  Logs do not dry out in round form readily.  I suspect that your piece is still pretty wet.  If it has only been cut a month or so, it is still very wet, especially white oak which is one of the very slowest drying woods. 

[SawyerTed]

Standing dead or laying dead will still take months to dry.  I have on hand about 600 board feet of 5/4 white oak that came down about a year ago.  I sawed it in May.  It is still not dry enough for use

[YellowHammer]

Lawg Dawg,
That's a beautiful example of RRRQS wood.  Excellent job.  

[Crossroads]

LD, that's a pretty piece of wood I hope your compensated well for your efforts. 

[4x4American]

Been cutting a bunch of big pine.  Logs so big my chain turner couldn't spin em and my log clamp couldn't hardly budge em.  Cut a 17' log monday that yielded 748bf of lumber  




























Its all custom sawing for a loggers shop he's building.  8 pine logs made a load on his triaxle

[WDH]

That log makes you and the mill look like midgets.

[bags]

I milled a few stacks of 6/4 juniper bent shorties for hall table blanks yesterday on the HM130---

[caveman]

That log makes you and the mill look like midgets.

Dug is not a small feller but I agree with WDH.  

[Lawg Dawg]

That log makes you and the mill look like midgets.

Dug is not a small feller but I agree with WDH.  

WooWee that's a stick of WOOD 

[4x4American]

lol lol lol 

Well today before we started anything else we had to realign the green chain, conveyor, and sawmill with the backhoe after the pounding they took from those big giant 16'ers.  Everything was knocked out of whack...I need a concrete floor to bolt everything down to and make cleanup more better.  I have the lt70 strapped to the wall of the building on both ends now.  I'll tell ya what tho that 70 is like a rolex watch it takes a lickin' and keeps on a tickin'.

[PC-Urban-Sawyer]

I think that was a TIMEX watch...

Herb

[Southside]

OUCH!!!   :D

[Magicman]

John Cameron Swayze would be impressed.  ;D

[nativewolf]

With the CONSTANT rain and humidity here, I think the air-dry piles are INCREASING in MC!  :-\

some of our logs were literally floating...so maybe they were increasing in moisture.  Our saw mill site was so wet the tables fell as the leg support blocks sunk into the mud and mud was flowing into the site.  Sigh..wet wet.

[Darrel]

It's so dry here. ODF says the woods, both public and private are closed down. Can't run gas powered saws either chain saw or sawmill. Fire danger is extreme. It rained this morning, felt good but the dust still billowed up behind the car while the rain was falling and then the sun came out and it was still hot, smokey and dusty. But more rain will come one day and the dust will settle, and the fires will go out, it always does. 

[4x4American]

I think that was a TIMEX watch...

Herb

The 70 super is too fancy to be a Timex 😉

[petefrom bearswamp]

I am sawing NOTHING.
Cant find either Hemlock or WP logs here.
Have had several leads but havent worked out.
Got several calls for "pine" yard trees which turned out to be Norway spruce.
Had a guy bring me 6 short Red oak bolts, I wont say logs, which he assured me were metal free.
My son unloaded them while I was busy with a customer.
When I looked them over he admitted they were yard trees and he had hit a staple when he bucked them up.
Put them back on his trailer and sent him on his way.

[Just Right]

Nice slabs! I like sawing pine...makes me happy!  ;D

Pallets make me happy too! Is that 12' material, or are you stickering on 16" intervals?
I am SURE it's been covered ad nauseam prior, but what kinda results are folks getting from 12 or 16" stickering?

I'm expecting YellowHammer's quality/science mind will have practical data!   8)

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PA,  Out of the kiln.  The spacing on the 16 inch worked good.  Seems like they came out straight.  Those are 8 ft.