A day cutting wood

[mesquite buckeye]

Not true, very hot in the summer, with big thunderstorms. ;D

[drobertson]

Not related to sawing per say, but our last lil winter blast kinda bit me in the rear.  they called for maybe 3", we got 12"  temps in the single digits,  tractor would not start, lift would not start, mill did, but does no good without a deck of logs, and the drive suffered heavily,  I'm ready for the next one,  just hope there is no next one,  I don't like it (snow/and cold) like you do Peter ;D  david

[mesquite buckeye]

It is good for people who love cold to live where it is cold and for those who don't to live where cold is absent. ;D ;D ;D

                          from the philosophy of Mesquite Buckeye, in ed

[WDH]

Some places the glaciers are thick and it is cold.  Some places it is hot.  Some places it is in-between. 

Observations from a Forestry Forum Vetern

[Peter Drouin]

Live where you're happy. And the way things went today, It was a good day still.

And if a man doesn't have  challenges every day he will die

[WDH]

I am challenged because my planer quite working today.  Won't start.  But, I still have a pretty good attitude.  At least I completed the Forestry Forum Christmas Contest  .

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

I am challenged because my planer quite working today.  Won't start.  But, I still have a pretty good attitude.  At least I completed the Forestry Forum Christmas Contest  .

Maybe you'll come in 2nd place. Blue Creeper will get that planer running again. 

[Peter Drouin]

I am challenged because my planer quite working today.  Won't start.  But, I still have a pretty good attitude.  At least I completed the Forestry Forum Christmas Contest  .

It's good you set a goal for the day  :D

[terrifictimbersllc]

Some days it doesn't pay  :D  -10 today, went to start the LT40 and the battery is dead, well will not turn over fast to start, got a new battery and It fired right up. Get a pine log, load the mill, the thing is sliding all over, did not think I would live longenuff to get it set. That pine is like a rock frozen hard. I cut the slab off and the sparks are flying .[Frozen mud] and the edge are as sharp as a knife. I cut the flinch and throw it down and it breaks like a piece of glass.I get the log all cut up and the snow is coming down so I'll call it a day, went to blow off the mill and on the #2 pull on the compressor and the rope is in my hand, now I have to fix that.

Why I live in sunny Tucson, AZ.  ;D Wish it would rain more though. :'(

Rather cut a cold log than a hot cactus no thanks. 

[Dave Shepard]

 :D

[mesquite buckeye]

Hot stickery cactus. ;D

Pays better. ;D ;D ;D

[thecfarm]

Peter likes to saw hemlock and white pine in the glaciered North. I know I do.  ;D

[goose63]

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And if a man doesn't have  challenges every day he will die
[/quote]then I aint ever gona die

[Peter Drouin]

I love the cold and snow for 3 months then bring on spring, In a few days the days will get longer and spring is on the way, 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) ;D

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And if a man doesn't have  challenges every day he will die

then I aint ever gona die
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Like it  :D you have to keep your brain working or it will stop working. then what  smiley_dizzy smiley_dizzy smiley_dizzy smiley_dizzy

[terrifictimbersllc]

I love the cold and snow for 3 months then bring on spring, In a few days the days will get longer and spring is on the way, 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) ;D

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And if a man doesn't have  challenges every day he will die

then I aint ever gona die

Like it  :D you have to keep your brain working or it will stop working. then what  smiley_dizzy smiley_dizzy smiley_dizzy smiley_dizzy
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Then you just trust the Accuset 2

[Peter Drouin]

I love the cold and snow for 3 months then bring on spring, In a few days the days will get longer and spring is on the way, 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) ;D

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And if a man doesn't have  challenges every day he will die

then I aint ever gona die

Like it  :D you have to keep your brain working or it will stop working. then what  smiley_dizzy smiley_dizzy smiley_dizzy smiley_dizzy

Then you just trust the Accuset 2
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Yes,  and I still have to use my head  :D

  today when I was cutting 3/8" x 4" and think I can only go down to 1' to the bed I had to look at the cut list to see what the dog board will be and fill the cut list at the same time ,and with frozen logs the clamp will not hold the ice and snow covered log, so I had to change the way I saw a log, the blade would pull the cant out of square.
It was one heck of a day  :D :D :D :D :D 8) ;D now I have to go plow the yard  :D :D ;)

[drobertson]

Then there is the infamous half frozen logs! accuset was doing its best, managed 27% over cut on some pine, pitchy, real pitchy and half froze, another challenge? I reckon, after an 9 hour day in the shop I was kinda hoping for some smooth sailing,   pizza and to bed,  go again tomorrow,   david

[Peter Drouin]

Then there is the infamous half frozen logs! accuset was doing its best, managed 27% over cut on some pine, pitchy, real pitchy and half froze, another challenge? I reckon, after an 9 hour day in the shop I was kinda hoping for some smooth sailing,   pizza and to bed,  go again tomorrow,   david

That's what it's all about. 8)

[Peter Drouin]

I think the cold and frozen ash logs had something to with breaking 4 blades today  :D :D


  

 
And it; s really bad when you just sharpen the thing. Why can't they break when they're dull . :D :D :D ;D

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

That wouldn't be any fun. 

[Nomad]

And it; s really bad when you just sharpen the thing. Why can't they break when they're dull . :D :D :D ;D

     It's like hitting metal.  It just don't work that way. :D

[Peter Drouin]

That wouldn't be any fun. 
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But the money was good  :D :D :D :D :D :D ;D

[drobertson]

I would rather saw  full frozen the half, but then I don't like that much either,    david

[5quarter]

It'd be nice if you only broke the dull blades, but then again, if they were dull, they wouldn't be on your mill.  ;)

[backwoods sawyer]

We are out on a road trip, 200+ miles up the coast, ice down to the beach.
Milled a batch of coastal stressed Doug fir, all 20'. Smallest was 20" couple were 36".
Then we milled a batch of spruce, same kind of logs, lot of grits in these logs, went thru half a box of saws.
Then we moved inland a few miles and milled up a truck load of western red cedar salvage logs, little Jo has taken to the control panel and keeps the saw in the wood, these logs had been buried in a mud slide so rocks were in every nook and cranny, zing zing :-\
Moving the mill again in the morning, another batch of western red cedar on down the road.
Phone has been ringing steady since we pulled onto town, had to start scheduling round two for next month, this ol mill has been from coast to coast.