Whatcha Sawin' 2019 ???

[busenitzcww]

 

 Osage orange ;D won't stick around long. It'd been dead 10 years but I think it was still worth it.

[doc henderson]

does it smell like bacon?!!!  looks good enough to eat.

[WDH]

So beautiful!

[Jeff]

Barney, I am not sure what causes that pattern.  I have not come across that one yet.

Reminds me of this aspen I sawed years ago
She's got some fine figure! in Sawmills and Milling
And some of it was made into this.
Bragging on Brian. in General Board

[PA_Walnut]

Reminds me of this aspen I sawed years ago

Jeff, that is some really cool stuff! Win! 8)

[thecfarm]

Well,those threads about Brian kept me drooling busy for a while. 

[WV Sawmiller]

    Got out and pulled a maple and a locust log that had fallen across my pasture fence to my log pile. Then I went up and cut an 8' log off a recently cut poplar. It was about 13" SED. The man who does my Lichtenburg burning/engraving gave me a couple of bamboo poles at the flea market last week. I use them to check my catfish lines and had lost my last one. When I tried to pay him he said just bring him a live edge poplar board about so wide and half inch thick for a project he has in mind. I don't normally leave my poplar live edge so had to go cut him one. I cut it through and through at 4/4 and cut the one half inch near but not in the pith. I left one 4/4 and the 2/4 live edge for him and edged out 5 more 1X10s, 2-1X8's, and a couple of 1X6's. Boy is green poplar a joy to saw.


Pretty little (Tulip) poplar log
 

 LE pieces on the loading arms payment for my bamboo fishing push poles. We love to trade things here in WV. :D He's happy and I am too so was a very good trade.

[Old Greenhorn]

One of these days I hope to get one (or more) of these logs on my mill. I hear lots of goo things. Not sure what I would do with the wood, but it sounds like fun to mill.

[RAYAR]

  Boy is green poplar a joy to saw.

It's also very wet and heavy when green.

[WV Sawmiller]

    Yes but proper stickering, air flow, weight on top and time will fix that. Poplar will certainly mildew if you you don't get enough air flow.

[Bruno of NH]

The wide live edge has picked back up again last week.
Not like it was 2 years ago but 4 or 5 wide ones a week.
Was out of wide pine so I sawed up a 10 ' pine log and got some nice 20" to 30" wide 2" thick live edge
2 of the widest are sold

 

 

 

 

 

[Magicman]

Congrats but I am wondering what's going on with the ribbon blade pattern.  I realize that you are sawing wide, but feed rate too fast/slow, drive belt possibly not quite tight enough, wrong blade?  

[Brad_bb]

Two favorite things... Bacon.. and Osage.  Nice busenitzcww.

[Bruno of NH]

MM
I have had that right from the beginning .
Turbo 7
I have been asking about it

[Barney67]

Sawed up the remaining oak log with the crazy pattern this past weekend.



 

 

 

 

 

 

[WV Sawmiller]

Barney,

   I think that oak is sick, maybe measles or such, and needs to be in quarantine far away in some place like WV. I think I have a spot where it will be safe if you'd like to bring it up or just hold it for me. :D

    I grew up in Century Fla and we used play you guys in Football an eternity ago. I still remember a couple of brothers, the McTeers, if I am right, who were tough to catch or stop. I think one was name Houston and I forget the other. I don't know if they have any grandkids playing for Baker today. Stay safe.

[Jim_Rogers]

Just yesterday, I finished a 30 red oak plank order for trailer decking.

Today, we moved some large diameter pine logs to the mill bunks.
Some idiot chopping going on with some of them.

I had to trim off many large branch numbs:



 

 

 

And certainly not the straightest one of the bunch.

Jim Rogers

[Bruno of NH]

The next log has been sitting 10 months has nice beetle stain and aged color .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Barney67]

Barney,

  I think that oak is sick, maybe measles or such, and needs to be in quarantine far away in some place like WV. I think I have a spot where it will be safe if you'd like to bring it up or just hold it for me. :D

   I grew up in Century Fla and we used play you guys in Football an eternity ago. I still remember a couple of brothers, the McTeers, if I am right, who were tough to catch or stop. I think one was name Houston and I forget the other. I don't know if they have any grandkids playing for Baker today. Stay safe.

I need to check with my son in law if he did any land clearing over a toxic waste dump last year. 

George and Houston McTear, went to school with their younger brother, I think most of them moved out of the area. Haven't followed much lately but Baker is on a 30+ regular season game win streak and they beat Northview 14-12 last Friday.

[Magicman]

I'm not looking forward to tomorrow's sawing job.  66 mile road trip but the real deal is that the forecast is for 98°.  

[RAYAR]

Congrats but I am wondering what's going on with the ribbon blade pattern.  I realize that you are sawing wide, but feed rate too fast/slow, drive belt possibly not quite tight enough, wrong blade?  

Other than blade tension, likely drive belt tension. The drive belt may be running smoothly while not cutting, but is it still running smoothly while cutting or is it flapping around while cutting? If the belt is flapping around while cutting, this is feeding back to the speed of the blade speeding up and slowing down at the rate the belt is flapping about causing a ripple effect on the surface being cut. The faster the feed rate, the more likely this is to happen. Watch that belt, if it's flapping about while cutting, it needs to be tightened up a bit, smooth running belt, smooth cutting.

[Magicman]

Hot today yes, but we still sawed.


 
18 White Oak, Red Oak, and SYP.


 
Oh Yes, there were a couple of Rock Oaks.


 
And I must not forget the Cow Pie Oak.


 
1226 bf of mostly 1X6's with a few 1X8's and 2X8".


 
And my ~300 lb tailgunner/customer's butt log was dragging.  OK mine too 'cause that 98° sunshine was brutal.  Back tomorrow.

[WV Sawmiller]

MM,

   I feel for you. Was that 66 miles one way or round trip? Did you leave the mill set up or bring it home with you? Be careful and stay safe.

[Southside]

Along the lines of the old frying pan saying - Out of the sandbox into the gravel pit... :D

[terrifictimbersllc]

MM you must help roll those logs from way back as the 98 degree day goes on?