Whatcha Sawin' 2020 ??

[Banjo picker]

OK.  OWMBO is not in the forestry forum Woodapedia.  So what is it.Banjo

[LeeB]

One who must be obeyed. 

[Banjo picker]

I guess that would have different meanings to different people.  Tim

[goose63]

 

 

Wallnut slabs



 

A 3 1/2 inch thick fire place mantel

And this and its not Monday



 

That glass door is going to be DanG spendy

[Walnut Beast]

Maybe that's telling you Sunday should be a day of rest and relaxation 🤔. Hopefully you Get your door fixed soon 👍

[doc henderson]

I broke one once if that makes you feel any better.  had a spare plastic one.  was over getting a highly valuable walnut tree.  @Southside   :D

[TimW]

Each I have had a tractor mishap, pine limb knocked off rear valve stem and a sharp pine limb through a radiator hose................all happened around dusk on a Sunday.
        hugs,  Brandi

[Patrick NC]

 

 Picked up some more nice cedar this weekend. The trees were really bad bushy, but very little heart rot and nice color. 

[terrifictimbersllc]

Always amazing how nice the cedar boards are compared to what the logs look like.  8)

Actually that log looks pretty good.

[goose63]

That glass door is not as bad as I thought $ 425 but I have to wate a month to get it

[Andries]

Way better to wait a month in August, than wait a month in February.
The Dakotas can get a bit chill at that time of the year.
😨😨

[Magicman]

Luke's and my sawing went very well today.  Yes, I was very concerned about whether we could stage and handle them but so far so good.


 
The logs had to be skidded uphill and turned 90°.


 
This should be enough to start on so now the sawmill was backed in.


 
It fit just as planned and there was plenty of shade.


 
Mostly 20' logs so no sawmill seat. 


 
Luke with the customer and his 92 year old Mom. 


 
We didn't get much done before rain shut us down.  Tomorrow will be another day.  ;D

[SpaceBus]

That glass door is not as bad as I thought $ 425 but I have to wate a month to get it

Painful, but not as bad as I would have thought. 

[goose63]

That glass door is not as bad as I thought $ 425 but I have to wate a month to get it

Painful, but not as bad as I would have thought.

Just wate till you hear about the right door it don't look any better than the left

[Magicman]

Mostly 20' logs so no sawmill seat.

With the sawmill operator's seat off I happened to notice this:


 
One of the cam followers under the seat had seized, so it got replaced with my "next worse" cam follower.  Unless they are frozen, anytime that I replace a cam follower on the sawmill head, it's next duty is the operator's seat.


 
Our day went well and even though there is lost time staging the logs, we are gradually whittling the whack down.  We will not saw tomorrow so these five 20 footers will be waiting for us Thursday morning.


 
We still have the largest logs left and there are several 20' log with 36"-37" butts!!  I have no idea what we will do with them yet??  The customer needs fourteen 20' 6X6's, so all depends upon whether we get them before we get to the 36"+ logs.  Hopefully we can whack them back to 12' and saw 1X12's.

No way will we finish this job this week so I have had to reschedule my next 2 jobs, both of which are road trips.

[TimW]

Thank God for Grandkids.  Hang in there Lynn!
       hugs,  Brandi

[WV Sawmiller]

   Yeah, my wife and I agree if we'd known they were so much fun we'd have had them first. :D 

   I have an 8 & 12 y/o gd here who plan to put up my new, to me, 14' X 8' tent. They dug out the blow up mattress and the air compressor and sleeping bags and such and are looking forward to camping in the back yard tonight.

[Jim_Rogers]

I got some 2x10x10'6" red oak planks out of that log I had trouble with loading, yesterday.
More flitches to edge today, from that log.



 

Jim Rogers

[mike_belben]

I salvaged what i could from this old oak to make some trailer decking, truckbed sides and craft wood for wife.  






The sides came out okay.  Tops are tall so i can lash them together and prevent bulging out.  











Off the go deliver firewood to a very annoying customer. 

[SpaceBus]

@mike_belben I've never seen a mill like that one. Did you make it yourself? 

[WV Sawmiller]

   A neighbor a mile up the road lives in a log house - actually it is a wood frame house with small peeled poplar poles cut in half and placed over the wood framing with wide, white mortar in between. Because of a gutter drain issue she has some rotten logs and she called me to come meet with her contractor guru yesterday. He needs 3-4 13.5' half logs so yesterday I cut down 2 small poplars and cut 4 -14' poles off them that ranged from about 9" down to about 5" SED. I pulled them and some tops for firewood down with my ATV and got out with the little JD750 and FEL and moved them to the mill on the front lot and split them as best I could. I will try to peel them with my spud bar but won't spend a lot of time on it. I might deliver them tomorrow if time permits in between other scheduled project like wife doctor visit, taking chainsaw from one "dealer" to another for a second repair opinion and taking the 2 younger local GD fish shopping.


 

 

[Patrick NC]

 

 Got some more nice cedar today. I've got an order for 700' of 1x6 and 1x8. Going to saw it this weekend. I'll post some pics after it's done. Should be some real pretty lumber. 

[Magicman]

Those appear to be very good ERC logs.

[firefighter ontheside]

I learned a lesson about answering odd phone number calls.  I tend to not answer them because they are usually political or some other garbage.  Well, today a truck came down my driveway and when he pulled up I recognized him as one of my repeat sawmill customers.  He said that he had called several times this week.  It turned out he has an odd area code from where he had lived previously.  I had ignored the calls and then the voicemail he left was a bunch of silence.  I don't know what happened there.  I guess I need to start answering all calls.  He said, are you still in the business of cultting logs.  Um. yeah.  He is bringing logs tomorrow morning.  

[Patrick NC]

Those appear to be very good ERC logs.

Some of the best looking I've ever hauled home. Very few inclusions and no heart rot. I wish every cedar I cut down looked this good.