the girl can cut

Ironwood · July 29, 2009, 12:22:06 AM

Good for her.

Ironwood

Meadows Miller · July 29, 2009, 05:07:24 AM

Gday

Woodmills i saw this last night but was a bit knackerd at the time to reply the thred seemd to have lost direction there for awhile ;) :D :D :D

Kaths going well ;D 8) 8) 3.5 m3 or about 1500 bft roughly and thats not counting any other recovery ;) The production will come It all takes time and common sence She'll get there we'll be seeing you making posts of 3000 + before too long i reckon Mate Tell kath to keep up the good work and that shes of to a great start n wait till theres more stuff she can pass on to edge ;) ;D 8) 8) 8) 8)

Reguards Chris

old joe · July 29, 2009, 08:46:19 AM

Kath,
Good job.
I suppose now we'll have to wait til YOU post the pics

Joe

woodmills1 · July 29, 2009, 06:28:58 PM

eleven

132 4x4x8 pine as dunnage cut by HER

half of a horse fence order cut by Kath that I finished today while SHE did a waitress job

a far away shot

Fla._Deadheader · July 29, 2009, 06:51:41 PM

I'd say, Woo HOO 8) 8)

Nice pics. 8) :D :D :D

woodmills1 · July 29, 2009, 07:08:18 PM

and just to keep it clear, the mill is not named or even gendered yet but the lovely Mrs wood, Kath cut the stuff pictured. I don't think there will be a confusion factor tonight :D :D :D :D :D :D :P

:P 8) :D :D

woodmills1 · July 29, 2009, 07:11:54 PM

dunnage= $638

fence after I finished = $720

having your wife run the saw head.......priceless

Bibbyman · July 29, 2009, 07:27:58 PM

But... but... I don't see her in the picture... :-\

woodmills1 · July 29, 2009, 08:07:52 PM

she said untill she has a good feeling. confidence, I can only show her wood :D

and she is covered outside of workmans comp, on my health INS

and she is getting and gonna be good at it 8) :P

farmboy1tn · July 29, 2009, 10:28:05 PM

she got another trade under her belt now

Meadows Miller · July 30, 2009, 02:39:28 AM

Gday

Woodmills How many hours has Kath got up sawing allup ??? if thats her first full day tell her shes doing alot better than alot of blokes ive trained

:

and if shes camera shy ;)take a snecky one while shes buisy sawing ;) :D :D

Hey Mate it also looks like your laging behined kath allready looking at the pile of wingboards sitting on the tailout rollers

;) :D :D :D 8)

I know of a couple of girls working as sawyers one down melb i use to work with and another my age up in sunny QLD who use to work in a bikiny top in summer shes a good sort too

;D ;D she runns her dads mill ;)

Reguards Chris

woodmills1 · July 30, 2009, 06:45:27 PM

pictures soon Bibby

she has about 9 hrs on the controls and another 9 or 10 watching and trying to run the Metavic....................she is not too good yet there

the pile of slabs we put on the ground on purpose so we could put the non product off the edger on the metavic and take it to the stack to sticker. The slabs are easy to move untill the pile gets huge but the boards I don't like to squeeze with the loader it dents them.

BTW kath had her regular night bartend tonight so I cut a trailer order today with out her 6' by 12' 1.5 thick one log, took my time.

Jim_Wahl · July 31, 2009, 10:22:00 AM

James, at this rate you will be the waitress before you know what happened! :D

olyman · July 31, 2009, 08:07:55 PM

Quote from: Jim_Wahl on July 31, 2009, 10:22:00 AM
James, at this rate you will be the waitress before you know what happened! :D

ouch!!! that might hurt ;D

Coon · July 31, 2009, 08:49:32 PM

I think he needs a mini skirt first if he's gonna become a waitress. ;) :D

farmboy1tn · July 31, 2009, 10:01:11 PM

bandmiller2 · August 02, 2009, 06:49:18 AM

Guys the truth is women can do anything we can do,just their too smart to do most of it.Frank C.

Meadows Miller · August 02, 2009, 08:00:12 AM

Too true Spot on Frank ;) ;D 8)

woodmills1 · August 02, 2009, 04:28:48 PM

well :D

my decision to involve Kathy was based on the easy operation of the LT 70 with setworks and the remote keeping the operator away from the engine noise and much of the sawdust. She can do tailing until the boards get wider, but some of the oak slabs have a lot of meat on the butt flares so I deceided to teach her to run the mill and I gcan do the grunt work

we cut 9 logs in 3 hours producing 8 8x8x10 in pine for a garden supply house to use as garden borders, as well as a few hundred feet of jacket boards. Kathy cut the 6 large ones and I cut the three small ones. She was amazed at how fast the mill can cut.

She is getting better each time she runs it

backwoods sawyer · August 03, 2009, 05:52:57 PM

Quite honestly, I would much rather work with one of the female sawyers then with most of the male sawyers in the big mill. Simply because they would watch the flow of the wood thru the whole plant and fluctuated there sawing speeds to accommodate an even flow of material, where most of the male sawyers were of the mind set that the faster the head rig went the more production they would get. Wrong, one jam up and all the gains for the day are more then lost.
I like having my wife saw with me as well. We switch back and forth between sawing and off bearing. Having a second sawyer allows me to spend time away from the control panel and have a better feel for how the mill is running.
My wife says "YOU GO GIRL" and I say it is good to see that you are not intimidated by the fact that one day your wife may even be a better sawyer then you. Don't hold back and teach her as much as she is willing to learn, and learn from her as you go along as well.

(To begin with, it sounded like you were talking about the mill not your wife. Be careful about that one.) ;D

LeeB · August 04, 2009, 02:10:59 AM

Lindy won't have anything to do with running my mill. She did offer to offbare for me if i have to start using the mill to pay the bills. While I really apreciate that offer she just ain't physicaly healthy enough to do it. I would rather her learn to run the mill. She says there's too much math involve. I told her hore hockey. Adjust the setwrks and saw. Paul won't run the saw either. He'll do everything else and actually seems to enjoy it once I make him get started. I erally wish he would take more interest in as a way to pay his way through college if nothing else.

WH_Conley · August 04, 2009, 07:11:15 AM

I am in the same boat Lee. Wife will do any of it except pull the lever.

woodmills1 · August 06, 2009, 09:11:52 PM

can't wait till she hits metal so it will be hers

Meadows Miller · August 10, 2009, 09:28:06 AM

:D :D :D :D :D :D theres gota be a 1st time with all of us i reckon mate ;) :D ;D

DanG · August 10, 2009, 10:38:32 AM

Congrats on getting the Wife involved James....I think. ???

After a mere 8 years, my Wife has become vaguely aware that there is something sitting in the front yard. She may even ask what it is, someday. I kinda like it that way. ;D