A day cutting wood

4x4American · April 27, 2015, 09:59:50 PM

Better get them blades all sharped!

Peter Drouin · April 27, 2015, 10:06:02 PM

Quote from: 4x4American on April 27, 2015, 09:59:50 PM
Better get them blades all sharped!

I could if you stop calling me. :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D ;)

POSTON WIDEHEAD · April 27, 2015, 10:11:33 PM

I for one are glad to see pics of your place without snow.

Peter Drouin · April 27, 2015, 10:13:13 PM

Quote from: POSTONLT40HD on April 27, 2015, 10:11:33 PM
I for one are glad to see pics of your place without snow.

Me too :D :D :D :D :D :D

4x4American · April 27, 2015, 10:16:27 PM

:D :D :D Hey now you didn't have ta return my call!

Jim_Rogers · April 27, 2015, 10:31:43 PM

I still have a pile of snow in my yard but it's getting shorter every day.

I had a customer call me today and wanted a lot of 2by red oak planks for a low bed.
It is stripped and he wants it yesterday.
I told him I could start it tomorrow, and he asked if he could pick it up Wednesday. I said yes, next Wednesday. He didn't like that idea.
He's moving on and getting it from someone else.
I felt like telling him "lack of planing on your part, doesn't make it an emergency on my part".....

Jim Rogers

Peter Drouin · April 27, 2015, 10:42:01 PM

I bet he calls you back Jim. But you're right, His emergency is not yours. :D :D :D
I get customers try it with me too, I bet we all do.

4x4American · April 27, 2015, 10:46:24 PM

Big time. It is crazy to me how poorly some people plan these sort of projects in advance. Wouldn't you think that if you're taking the decking off, you might should have the new lumber ready to put on?

Peter Drouin · April 27, 2015, 11:08:13 PM

Quote from: 4x4American on April 27, 2015, 10:46:24 PM
Big time. It is crazy to me how poorly some people plan these sort of projects in advance. Wouldn't you think that if you're taking the decking off, you might should have the new lumber ready to put on?

thecfarm · April 28, 2015, 06:43:17 AM

It's not just the lumber business either. I have people walk into the hardware store just about every day wanting something today. I can understand the plumbing jobs that gets worse as the "repair" job goes on. ;D We are only a small store, not a store that has a roof an acre in size on top.

Tom L · April 28, 2015, 08:17:14 AM

the six pee's

proper planning prevents p*&}{ poor performance

happens every day here at the shop, the guys in the field don't need something until they go to put it in.
then all wonder where it is, then make it an emergency to get it on site because it is so important, and holding up the entire job.

Jim_Rogers · April 28, 2015, 09:38:32 AM

Normally I have some leftover timbers in the stack that I can go and get and put back on the mill and slice off one or two pieces to satisfy the "I need it now" customer.
I searched my piles and found one timber that would only make two pieces of the 12 he needed.
So that really didn't help.

I have another customer who ordered some 2x10 white oak planks for sill stock for a timber frame cabin he's going to build.
I cut up one 16' long log to make pieces for it.
The cabin is 18' x 25' and he needs 86 lineal feet of 2x10's as I figure it.
I got four 2x10x16 out of this log and two 8' pieces. I'm only 6 lineal feet short of the 86 needed.
Now he says he doesn't want to piece together short pieces as he has to drill holes into a stone foundation to secure the sill stock to the rocks. And he doesn't want to drill a lot of extra holes due to short pieces.
I've asked him what lengths does he expect to get from me.
I haven't heard back from him yet.
If he's going to reject these pieces due to them not being the exact lengths he wants I could have sold them to this "need it yesterday" guy.
You can't seem to win some days.

Jim Rogers

Jim_Rogers · April 28, 2015, 01:52:54 PM

Quote from: Jim_Rogers on April 28, 2015, 09:38:32 AM
I have another customer who ordered some 2x10 white oak planks for sill stock for a timber frame cabin he's going to build.
I cut up one 16' long log to make pieces for it.
The cabin is 18' x 25' and he needs 86 lineal feet of 2x10's as I figure it.
I got four 2x10x16 out of this log and two 8' pieces. I'm only 6 lineal feet short of the 86 needed.
Now he says he doesn't want to piece together short pieces as he has to drill holes into a stone foundation to secure the sill stock to the rocks. And he doesn't want to drill a lot of extra holes due to short pieces.
I've asked him what lengths does he expect to get from me.
I haven't heard back from him yet.
Jim Rogers

So, this beginner timber framer just emailed me that he expects me to supply him with two pieces 18' long and two pieces 25' long for his sills for his cabin.
We'll have to see if he'll accept the "real life" deals.

Jim Rogers

Magicman · April 28, 2015, 02:07:05 PM

I'll bet something like, "pay in full before I open a log".

Jim_Rogers · April 28, 2015, 03:55:18 PM

Quote from: Magicman on April 28, 2015, 02:07:05 PM
I'll bet something like, "pay in full before I open a log".

In my area it is very hard to find tall straight white oak logs that will make 16' lengths. I can't even imagine a log that would make 2x10's 25' long. That would be huge at the butt end.

Hopefully he'll agree to take these and take two more 9' pieces to finish off his order.

Jim Rogers

Dave Shepard · May 01, 2015, 06:42:31 PM

Not that I'll catch up to Peter, but I got a load and a half of logs today. :D Please excuse the slab pile disarray. It was a long winter, and sometimes the slabs didn't want to come out of the snowbank in an orderly fashion. :D

Peter Drouin · May 01, 2015, 07:19:02 PM

That looks like some nice wood. 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)

Dave Shepard · May 01, 2015, 07:33:10 PM

Some nice stuff, and some firewood. A friend had about a dozen trees taken down in front of his garage. We burned the tops, and he had to truck the logs away. I helped buck the logs to get what I wanted out of them, he paid trucking. 8)