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Best use for cherry lumber?

Posted in Sawmills and Milling
Yesterday at 09:31:25 PM
Written by Wlmedley
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I've pretty well got all the logs I had laying around sawed up,stacked and stickered. All I have left is three cherry logs that my neighbor brought me a few months ago. Two are 8' and one 6'. They don't look like much and I think I'd be ahead to cut them into 4' lengths being they are pretty crooked.

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Antique band resaw

Posted in Sawmills and Milling
June 27, 2025, 01:11:43 PM
Written by 802hlake
Views: 455

I have a band resaw manufactured by the F.H. Clement co in Rochester NY that I am looking to sell. This belonged to my father. Before him, it briefly belonged to Putney Basket aka Basketville, and before that to a luthier who used it to saw guitar tops. It has not been run in many years, but has been

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Weatherproof trailer brake controller?

Posted in Forestry and Logging
June 27, 2025, 12:47:25 PM
Written by John Mc
Views: 503
Has anyone seen a trailer brake controller that is weatherproof? I'd like to be able to control the electric brakes on my forwarding trailer from my open-station tractor. I've occasionally been pushed around by the trailer when coming down hill and trying to keep the speed slow and steady. Keeping my studded "Euro-style" chains on the tractor year round certainly helps, but being able to get a little assistance from the trailer brakes would be handy.Read More

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More mill closers

Posted in Sawmills and Milling
June 27, 2025, 08:40:54 AM
Written by customsawyer
Views: 710
INDUSTRY NEWS. CANFOR ANNOUNCES CLOSURE OF DARLINGTON AND ESTILL SAWMILLS. Canfor Corporation announced today [June 26, 2025] its decision to permanently close the Estill and Darlington sawmills in South Carolina, effective August 2025. These closures follow an extended period of persistently weak market...

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Timberjack 240E manuals

Posted in Forestry and Logging
June 26, 2025, 08:16:37 PM
Written by tberry
Views: 342
Hi everyone. I just picked up a 1980 TJ 240E. I got a great price on it and it came with a few problems that I want to fix the right way. Im having a hard time locaring service manuals for the machine.
It has a gearmatic 119 winch and i was able to download the manual.
i cant find the specific owner or service manual for the 240E. it has a 4-53 detroit which i have a manual for. not sure whT type of transfer case it has or transmission other than its A 4 speed and has hi/low range with a reverser.Read More

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