Log lot management problems

[mesquite buckeye]

Nice looking log pile Bibby. ;D ;D ;D
I've cut a lot worse. Course don't know if I made any money cutting worse. : :

And so it goes.

[outerbanxer]

 

It makes for more work for the sawyer when the logs are poorly cut.  I needed to do chainsaw work on every butt cut.  All were notched at about a 30 degree angle with usually a big splinter sticking out.

I usually call it the beaver cut...lol. Never understood it, and have taught a few people what I learned. I always make a directional notch, then come on the back side up 2 inches (depends on the log diameter) up from the directional and cut into it flat....leaves a really nice hinge and you can steer the tree as it gains momentum. It also is really good at anti kick back, and the tree doesn't split on the way down.

But everybody has there own way...

[Chuck White]

Whenever we would cut sawlogs, we would cut the notch on the stump, not the log!  ;)

[Dave Shepard]

That's a Humboldt. That is the way I try to do it. I hate big angled cuts on the butts of logs, especially if I'm trying to get a timber out of it. In my opinion, on larger logs anyway, that first foot or better is junk anyway. The grain runs out too fast when you cut into the root flare. Almost lost two of my 47' timbers this winter because of that. Fortunately I had some extra room to play with.

[Chuck White]

That's a Humboldt. That is the way I try to do it. I hate big angled cuts on the butts of logs, especially if I'm trying to get a timber out of it. In my opinion, on larger logs anyway, that first foot or better is junk anyway. The grain runs out too fast when you cut into the root flare. Almost lost two of my 47' timbers this winter because of that. Fortunately I had some extra room to play with.

I didn't know there was a name for it Dave, it's just the way we've always done it!

Learn something new every day!

[Bibbyman]

 

 

We've not yet made molehills out of the mountains of logs but we're making a dent in them.

We stopped buying before Christmas and have been working hard to get our custom sawing caught up and depleting our old inventory. 



 

We keep getting in more custom sawing. Here is a pile of cedar and two walnut logs that came in a few days back.

[mesquite buckeye]

Looks like you are getting pretty nice logs at the moment.

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

I know what ya mean Bibby. I sale a lot of barn boards I mill from Pine I buy. Right now I am out of Barn Boards due to milling Custom Orders and customers keep coming in and bringing logs due to warmer weather.

But at least I'm sawing. 

[WDH]

You also have a whack of sawdust  ;D.

[Bibbyman]

http://youtu.be/H3hhw6ACRQY

I don't know if you can hear for the wind but I'm talking about 3 ugly oak logs that a tree service  brought and dumped they are caked with mud and gravel.   We'll not be sawing these.

[Chuck White]

Don't blame you a bit Bibby!

I've had to reject a few logs out on my mobile sawjobs!

Customers don't understand why at first, but with a little explaination they do!

[goose63]

Don't blame you at all. but thy would look good on the burn pile

[5quarter]

Bibby, you're looking caught up these days. as usual, I am the opposite of caught up.  ;)

[reubenT]

Had an old man want me to saw up a big ole cedar log.  he was sure it was clean.   I hit at least 6 nails with the first cut.   Had to refuse to cut any further.   

  I don't have much for level land,  my saw yard has to be very small and co exist with the neighbors access road.   (neighbor lives a mile back in the woods with their drive going through our place full length)   I'm trying to figure out where to put the "new"  old mill I'm fixing to set up.   Need to tear down and clean up the previous sawmill shed and space there is too limited.  Every other halfway level place is either inaccessible by truck or occupied by garden space.     I may have to get that ole dozer in here and create a level place where there isn't one.

[Bibbyman]

Bibby, you're looking caught up these days. as usual, I am the opposite of caught up.  ;)

We've cut way back on our commercial sawing so we've not bought many logs. The last load we bought,  the logger really dumped a load of job site cleanup logs on us.  Guess he figured if we were not buying a couple of loads a week,  he could dump on us. 

[4x4American]

Subscribed...good thread.

[mike_belben]

It took nearly a month of leaning my phone up against my coffee to read this entire thread.. It really shows how much can change with time.  The log inventory swings, the changing markets, technology.  When the thread was started blackberry was in its infancy.  Now desktops are going extinct.   A few members in the thread have passed.  Kids have turned to adults, parents have become grandparents, businesses have begun and ended.  Time doesnt wait i guess.  

This thread was just what i needed when i needed it.  I am pushing out dirt for buildings, log lot, equipment parking and truck turnarounds.  Theres a lot of things im gonna do different than i thought and what a blessing it was to find this BEFORE i cut down those shade trees over the piles or put up that shed in the wrong spot.  

So what is the current state of affairs for you folks? 

[Larry]

Now desktops are going extinct.

When they become extinct I think I'll check out too.  Can't stand reading on a phone or tablet, and I even added a mouse to my laptop.

[paul case]

Bibby and Mary are slowed down and have not sawn much that I have heard of, but it seems they have fun with their shootin and such.

I am still trying to saw for some level of production. WE custom saw some but it isnt enough to keep us busy so we also saw ties and some grade as well as palleting material for a couple local businesses.

We still have to deal with the log lot issue, but have narrowed it some by narrowing our sawing target. We saw ties that are 8'8''. We also saw 10'6'' 3x4 cants for my longest running customer. So I only buy logs that are 8' or 10'. We seperate them when they come in as 8' tie, 8' pallet, 10' tie and 10' pallet. This make for four different stacks of logs. We try not to make more than 4kft in a pile of logs and then make another. That makes it so that we can keep cutting on a pile til it is gone, then start on another. We tend to run low in the summer and none of my markets seem to mind stain on the lumber or cants.

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[mike_belben]

Do you send out pallet wood cut to length or are they buying it long?  

[paul case]

long. I have done cut to length and unless there is no other way, I will not do it again.

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