A day cutting wood

[Magicman]

It won't do any good because that lumber is now a Cabin Addition.   

Here, photos constitute evidence.  :

Where have you been ???   :D  Cabin Addition   Check Reply# 25 and Reply# 29 for those particular pictures.   

[Nomad]

  No nails....we'll see! 

Oh no, Sir, there are no nails in that tree.........Famous last words (Old Saying). 

If you tell me that there are absolutely no nails in that tree, I will not trust you with my daughter  :D.

     Peter already did it, but I couldn't hep myself.  I had to do it again! :D :D :D

[4x4American]

I had a helper today.  This big pine log...I had to chain it to the forks on the tractor.  Cause the cylinders drop so fast the seals are shot I need to repack them...Well anyways they drop so fast, and there's not enough power to pick them back up.  Just to get it to curl I had to pick it up, hope it didn't roll, and then lower the forks down on another log while curling back.  Then I chained it.  Pain right in the catoolum.  12' long

[Peter Drouin]

Looks good, And I like a green tractor. Did you get the bugs all worked out with the mill?

[4x4American]

I think so.  I am still crossing my fingers, but I think it's good to go.  Screwed around with the brake strap adjustment, it was stopping way to fast after I adjusted the belt.  Belt was loose.  I think I got the brake strap adjustment pretty decent, but when they say that you should be able to just pull up on it, do they mean JUST pull up on it or more of a pretty certain pull up on it?

[Peter Drouin]

I think I got the brake strap adjustment pretty decent, but when they say that you should be able to just pull up on it, do they mean JUST pull up on it or more of a pretty certain pull up on it?

say_what

[terrifictimbersllc]

I think so.  I am still crossing my fingers, but I think it's good to go.  Screwed around with the brake strap adjustment, it was stopping way to fast after I adjusted the belt.  Belt was loose.  I think I got the brake strap adjustment pretty decent, but when they say that you should be able to just pull up on it, do they mean JUST pull up on it or more of a pretty certain pull up on it?

For the adjustment go by how fast the blade stops.  I think it says how fast this should be in the manual.  I would  give it two seconds max.  Think about whether you want it stopped before your off bearer reaches in over the blade to grab an edging that fell off to the side.

[Chuck White]

I don't have it right here, it's in the truck, but my manual does say that the band should stop turning within 4 seconds of disengagement.

[4x4American]

It's definitely stopping before that.   Thanks.  I didn't find that part in my manuel.

[Peter Drouin]

Had a customer need stickers with his wood. This is how I do it.


  

  

  

  

 


I use dry wood to make them, the lumber won't stain that way.

[4x4American]

How do you like that bander unit? 

[Peter Drouin]

How do you like that bander unit? 

It works well. Any one cutting lumber should have one.

[Peter Drouin]

Had a Logger drop off some hardwood logs to be cut into trailer decking.
I ask, Is the truck big enough for the small load :D :D


  

 

It is nice to be able to turn around a truck like that here. ;D

[Peter Drouin]

And then a nice load came in today. Customer want's all 1 1/8" as wide as I can get.


  

 
All 16'

[Bruno of NH]

Peter,
Good to see you are flat out again 8) 8)
Haven't seen you post much lately figured you were knee deep . :D :D
That's a nice load of wood 8) 8)
Jim/Bruno

[Peter Drouin]

Peter,
Good to see you are flat out again 8) 8)
Haven't seen you post much lately figured you were knee deep . :D :D
That's a nice load of wood 8) 8)
Jim/Bruno

smiley_horserider smiley_chop dancing-jack :D :D

[Dave Shepard]

What's that big beaver hinge on the top log?  :D I hate that. I'm tempted to knock those back to the next even foot.

[Magicman]

That looks like a nice payday.   

[Peter Drouin]

That looks like a nice payday.   

When it's not -40 every day is a payday :D :D

What's that big beaver hinge on the top log?  :D I hate that. I'm tempted to knock those back to the next even foot.

I don't like it either, When I cut the customers logs He pays for all of it. :D :D :D
When I buy logs like that I sometimes will take off some BF.

[4x4American]

What's that big beaver hinge on the top log?  :D I hate that. I'm tempted to knock those back to the next even foot.

Yet another reason why using a humboldt notch is the best way to cut sawtimber.  Take the wedge out of the stump not out of the log.  Use a humboldt in front of most any eastern logger, especially if they're an old boy, and they think you're messed up in the head!   ???

[4x4American]

BTW, for those that were wondering, in the pine logs that I posted a couple pages back, where the guy said there were no nails...well one log had 7 nails and a chain in it  8) 8)


Luckily I found them before I sunk any teeth into it...

[Jim_Rogers]

Last fall my logger brought in some logs from another "tree cutter" I hauled logs with my truck for this guy many many years ago. What a piece of work he was back then, and still is now.

He wanted me to mill up these logs into 2x4's and other items for some project he was going to do. I told him to call me at the end of the month as I was planning a trip and wanted to do his job right after I got back.

Well, he never called.
After a while I had gotten all the jobs on my list done except his and was preparing to do his next. I called my logger to get his phone number.
My logger said he had called him and canceled the job, and said I could have the logs.
Basically the logger got paid to haul them away, and I got used for a log dump.
That won't happen again, if I can help it.

So these 2x4's he wanted were to be 8' long. But the logger told him not to cut all the logs to 8' long as he wanted to haul a big load of longer ones. So he cut each 16' log part way through.
That was ok until he canceled the job and left me with a pile of logs cut half way through.

Recently, I got an order for some 2x6's 16' long. and some other shorter stuff from a lady with horses and riding stable that needed some fence stock.
I had the logger move some of the 16' logs up to the mill for me and I have sawn them up to fill the fence rail order.
To understand what part of the log was 16' and what part was shorter. I placed my framing square into cut in the log to show me the angle of the cut:



 

I did manage to get some usable lumber out of these dead standing pines but most were holey from the bugs.

All in a day of cutting wood.

Jim Rogers

[Peter Drouin]

I have not seen that before [cutting a log ½ way through] and truck it .
But you made it work, Good job.

[drobertson]

I have a similar job laying and waiting, same thing, just hate the bow that comes from it, 

[Magicman]

Yup, if it is a log with sweep and the cut is across the "wrong" log face, it could be difficult to recover any usable lumber.   :-\