Author Topic: Total of our experience-Sawmilling (Read 159624 times)

POSTON WIDEHEAD · « **Reply #140 on:** February 08, 2018, 09:01:11 PM »

Welcome to the FF Jeff.
glad you figured out the pictures.

Nice set up and that mill will make you some retirement coins.
Good luck and post more pics.....we love pics.

Goat

thecfarm · « **Reply #141 on:** February 08, 2018, 09:13:42 PM »

Good for you on the mill. And welcome to the forum.
My Father never got to see me buy a mill. We looked at the kind that I bought. He would of enjoyed it.

Darrel · « **Reply #142 on:** February 08, 2018, 10:27:45 PM »

Jeff, welcome, you have come to a good place.

Chuck White · « **Reply #143 on:** February 19, 2018, 06:49:24 AM »

Welcome to the Forestry Forum, Jeff!

tuckerrandy · « **Reply #144 on:** November 13, 2018, 12:24:28 AM »

Have just purchased a Wood Mixer LT40 Hydraulic. I have never owned a mill! I'm 63 years old....have always wanted a mill...I have a wonderful wife that said if you want one, gray it. I farmed for years & still love on the farm & rent my land. One of the reasons I really wanted to get the mill is I have a grandson 11 years old & absolutely loves the outdoors. I figured helping me on. the mill would gain him some good work ethic & I could pay him & thus he would see the benefits of hard work. When he graduates from HS in several years...he can have it! The dream has always been mine to own a mill & now I have a grandson that is sharing the dream with me. My mill delivers December 7th & we are excited. We have built a trailer with a log arch as well as purchased a Logrite T36 log arch to retrieve logs close to the farm.

One question for all....how many extra blades do I need?
I have 60 coming with the mill. I am 200 miles from the dealer & absolutely want to have plenty of blades.
Thanks in advance for the replies.

thecfarm · « **Reply #145 on:** November 13, 2018, 06:58:04 AM »

tuckerrandy,welcome to the forum.
Lucky grandson and good for you!! We work hard our whole life and should have things to fulfill our dreams and wants.
Going to need a peavey or a cantdog from Logrite too.
Whatcha pulling the Logrite arch with? Good choice on that.
And what's the plan for the lumber?

Magicman · « **Reply #146 on:** November 13, 2018, 07:11:21 AM »

Welcome to the Forestry Forum, tuckerrandy. I use Wood-Mizer Resharp service and 60 blades should serve you well.

Darrel · « **Reply #147 on:** November 14, 2018, 11:10:29 AM »

Welcome tuckerrandy. My grandsons love helping me on the mill and it is so good to see them learn to enjoy hard work.

Chuck White · « **Reply #148 on:** November 18, 2018, 02:37:15 PM »

Welcome to the Forestry Forum, tuckerrandy!

It makes a difference in the blade quantity required whether you sharpen them yourself or use ReSharp!

If you sharpen your own blades, you don't really need 60 blades, but they won't go to waste!

If you use the ReSharp service, 60 blades should insure that you always have sharp blades on hand!

Billproef · « **Reply #149 on:** January 12, 2020, 12:58:23 PM »

I have over 30 years billproef rounded down about 8 to 10 years should be about 40

Marvin69 · « **Reply #150 on:** February 26, 2020, 07:59:14 PM »

I have 10 years cutting my own lumber. Grew up in Oregon working in a Georgia Pacific sawmill for 3 years, coos head timber company sawmill for 3 years. Then off to the military. 30 years later I finally got to cut lumber myself. Love it.

thecfarm · « **Reply #151 on:** February 27, 2020, 08:16:14 AM »

Marvin69.welcome to the forum.
Looks like a chainsaw mill you got there?
What do you use the lumber for?

RSteiner · « **Reply #152 on:** July 06, 2020, 08:15:06 AM »

Started sawing with a Mobile Dimension Saw in the mid-1980's. Did custom sawing on the weekends, sawed out lumber for my own use, and sold some lumber. The mill was new in 1979, we were the second owners, it was getting a little tired so it didn't get used for a couple of years. Every year the mice would get into the engine during the winter and make a mess.

This spring someone approached me asking if I wanted to sell the mill, it was kinda like asking if I wanted to sell an old friend, but I agreed. Then the thought of not being able to convert a nice log into lumber struck and my wife said why don't you get one of those band saw mills you are always looking at. So, late this spring a
Wood-Mizer LT15 with power feed arrived in the driveway.

The transition from a circular saw with edgers to a band mill without edgers has been interesting. I like to ability to saw a board wider than 12". I'm still getting educated about what blade to use in different woods and what to add to the water for lube and cooling but I'm getting along.

Randy

Tacotodd · « **Reply #153 on:** July 06, 2020, 04:54:19 PM »

Happy birthday Randy!

handhewn · « **Reply #154 on:** December 08, 2020, 06:50:14 PM »

Started on 60" circular (late 70s) for 20 yrs., Mobile Dimension for several more, Wood Mizer for several more, so round to 25 yrs. making my living at making sawdust. Sawing here and there on the side for many more. Now that I am "Retired", I'm getting the 60" going again.

wkf94025 · « **Reply #155 on:** January 08, 2022, 01:02:19 PM »

One year into this passion, beginning with a Lucas 7-23 swing arm purchased in early 2021. (The day before I was about to purchase a WM band saw, I discovered swing arm, and never looked back.) I won't repeat what I posted here yesterday about my background. Perhaps worth mentioning that I'm now in this biz/hobby/addiction due to the CSU Wildfire that incinerated most of my coastal Santa Cruz County ~4 acres in August 2020. House survived, but shop and everything else gone. A few months later I stumbled on free Doug Fir logs, some old growth, in the nearby state park, killed by the fire. That lured me in to milling, which lured me in to an F350 crew cab dually Powerstroke 7.3, a skidsteer, dump trailer, drying (solar DIY at the moment, though considering a Nyle L200M), which then lured me into a Minimax CU300 and an assortment of great woodworking machines. Still married despite my unchecked addiction, though it helps we live an hour from the mill/shop operations.

Fascinated by the fact that 1/3 of the survey respondees are like me, ~1 year in. How many wash out? How many still going strong?

Tim · « **Reply #156 on:** January 09, 2022, 11:50:23 AM »

Quote from: wkf94025 on January 08, 2022, 01:02:19 PM

How many still going strong?

Well, I've been schlepping around long enough that I had to change my answer in to polls from 25 to 30 years... If that helps you with part of an answer to that question

Quote from: wkf94025 on January 08, 2022, 01:02:19 PM

Still married despite my unchecked addiction,

Man... my wife and I know the pain that can be in that stress... I'm sorry to hear about the major set back that you folks suffered with the fire.

wkf94025 · « **Reply #157 on:** January 13, 2022, 01:57:25 AM »

Quote from: Tim on January 09, 2022, 11:50:23 AM

Man... my wife and I know the pain that can be in that stress... I'm sorry to hear about the major set back that you folks suffered with the fire.

Thanks Tim. I did not lose the house, and it wasn't my primary residence in the first place, so my pain is minimal compared to the ~1,000 wildfire families here in Santa Cruz County, and the thousands more throughout the West. Most of the pain in my case is suffered by my insurance company. I get a new shop, and a chance to improve on the design and materials from Shop v1.0 in 1991. My neighbors on the other hand are personally suffering through loss of their home, and in many cases, are under-insured, uninsured, and/or lack proper entitlements to what they had built in the first place. Unhappy place for sure.

OlJarhead · « **Reply #158 on:** May 26, 2022, 06:00:36 PM »

Don't know if I ever answered this but if I did was a long while back!

So I now have 11 years on a bandsaw and some time before that on a csm

Thanks to FF too!

Tim · « **Reply #159 on:** February 11, 2023, 03:02:56 PM »

I was curious and got out the calculator.

As of Feb 11, 2023 the sum for those that answered the poll: 6,390 years.

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