A day cutting wood

[Peter Drouin]

½" lag will slow you down some  :D :D :D :D :D

[backwoods sawyer]

That lag bolt did not do as much damage to the saw a hitting a section of fencing did :

Todays milling was Pine siding 1x12's 12'-16' long. The total bft was 4,750, and a pile of sawdust.




  

 

[4x4American]

I went and looked at two jobs today.  One was a bonus.  I went to see one guy's header, it's tight quarters and on a slope.  The logs are ugly lookin, and in a mess too.  He said he cut them down a little over a year ago.  Mostly white pine, a few red pine, spruce and a popple or two here or there.  I told him to play pickup sticks, get all the logs in one place maybe level it out a bit more with the backhoe and give me a call send some pictures.  He said he'll get right on it today.  Come anytime I want with the mill he'll leave the backhoe there with the keys in it use it all I want.

His Neighbor came by, I went over to his place.  Lots of hemlock.  A couple look well past their expiration date.  He wants me to drop a bunch of the big girls.  I told him to hire a logger or an arborist, I don't like to drop trees where theres houses and powerlines around.  Anyways, he had a nice setup, I can use that same backhoe from down the road. 

Both of these guys are for 50/50 swap.  Which is fine for right now because I need to build a port for my mill and a wood shed, and a couple other projects.  I gave that guy my card he kept saying he knows this guy and that guy who need milling.  He said oh the 50/50 or 60/40 is great because most people round here can't pay cash but sure can swing the swap....welp...once I get going it'll be cash on the barrel head son.  This sawmill gets paid to run.  If I could pay my loan off in wood that'd be great.  I don't really have a great setup here for selling lumber, nor do I really want to. 

Anyways...

[thechknhwk]

Some pics of a job I did earlier this summer.   The customer recovered all of these from blowdowns from a tornado.  I sawed over 1400bf the first time I was there then came down to this pile and had it scaled at 1700bf w/the FF calculator, but when I was done we counted up over 2700bf, so about 4200bf total at this location.  It was the nicest pine I have seen to date.

[beenthere]

Hope your client got his pine stickered good for drying. Looks temporary, at best, in the pics.  ;)

[Dave Shepard]

That's a nice whack of nice pine, cknhwk. I've got a few nice sticks I'm going to slice this afternoon.

[WDH]

Really nice pine.

Backwoods, that is a whack of sawdust.

[clww]

That's a whack of pine for sure! 8)

[Peter Drouin]

Good job, 8)

[Peter Drouin]

Today I had an order and ran short on 8' and 10' pine logs.
So I went to my friendly neighborhood landing and got some   :D :D ;D


  

 

I know too much, But it was a mile away. 680 BF :D :D :D :D ;D

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

Now there's a "WHACK ON WHEELS".  :D

[Bruno of NH]

I like the rope tie downs !
Tied the old school way :)

[Peter Drouin]

I like the rope tie downs !
Tied the old school way

That's me, old school :D :D
I see customers all the time, can't tie a knot :D :D

[clww]

That's a load! 8) Good thing it was pine.

[barbender]

Do I see a "wagoneer's hitch"? ???

[Peter Drouin]

A movers hitch. Can get the rope as tight as you want. ;D

[Bruno of NH]

It's the best way to tie lumber or ladders on a truck rack .
I learnt it from an old lumber delivery driver when I was a kid .
The young guys that work with me don't know what rope is.
Bruno

[Peter Drouin]

It's the best way to tie lumber or ladders on a truck rack .
I learnt it from an old lumber delivery driver when I was a kid .
The young guys that work with me don't know what rope is.
Bruno

They all use ratchet straps now or bungees :D :D :D :D :D :D

[backwoods sawyer]

Also note the type, size and length of rope used to tie the logs down. A section of rope like that with the  Knowledge to use it is a handy tool indeed ;)

[Peter Drouin]

Thanks backwoods.
It's funny, I have ratcheted straps and never use them :D

[WDH]

Sometimes the ratchet straps are worse than changing the grease tube in a grease gun  . 

[slider]

Just keep them lubricated and feed the strap in the right direction and they are great.

[Jim_Rogers]

Sometimes the ratchet straps are worse than changing the grease tube in a grease gun  .

Don't bring that up again, ever.......

Jim Rogers

[Magicman]

"Grease Guns -N- Grits".  Maybe Jim -N- Danny could play at the next Git Together.    smiley_singsongnote02

[drobertson]

Just wondering, is this movers hitch the same as the Bolin hitch knot?  ropes are handy, and ratchet straps are too, applications and requirements often dictate which are used.