Keeping Timbers Clean and Free of Damage?

[Knot_Head]

For you guys sawing timber frame timbers etc. How do you keep the timber clean and free of any damage if they want rough-sawn faces? Meaning they will not plane them and surface them, they are going to use them as is. Obviously you would want to flip the cant on the sawmill by hand to keep it from getting damaged by the log turner but what else can you do? How do you handle getting the timber off the sawmill without damaging it? Is a forklift the best option?

[drobertson]

knothead, I use the clamp for flipping the cants, and rollers for moving them off the mill. Fork lift to load and ship.  david

[Knot_Head]

Any photos of your roller set up?

[Jim_Rogers]

I lift my timbers up off the mill saw table with the taper rollers that are built in. And then lift them off the rollers with my forklift. No special treatment other than that.
Keep your forks clean of dirt and you should be good to go.
I usually roll my timbers with a "sawyer's favorite" cant hook at the ends where the hook marks will be cut off when the make tenons and such on the ends.

Jim Rogers