What do you like most about sawing?

[Peter Drouin]

OK, somebody has to say it so I will. 

The logs are nice, the lumber can be awesome, and I have made many lasting friendships.  You guys are also super, but I really like the paychecks.   ;D

    I new some one would :D :D

[kelLOGg]

Yea, theres nothing like opening up a log to see whats inside. You never know what will come out of an old crooked log.

 

What a lucky mouse! How did you time that shot?
Bob

[drobertson]

Pay checks are nice, well deserved, but whats better than the normal pay check is the tip on top of the standard fee,  this is what makes for total gratification!  A very satisified custormer pulling off the yard with a grin from truck door to door, can't forget the big wave as they drive away,  david

[kelLOGg]

If I may chime in again, I really like brushing off the sawdust to see the grain - thanks Peter Drouin for those pics - and smelling pine sawdust. My wife approached the mill as I was sawing pine and noticed the really strong pine scent. I could hardly smell it - am I getting too old to smell (okay, let's hear the jokes) or are we saturating/de-sensitizing our sense of smell?
Bob

[drobertson]

Ahh yea, the aroma of the differing species,  Just this morning, with the fresh air after another nice soaking rain, the sun peaking through the early morning tree tops, Christy and I were doing my only form of PT, walking, to the mill and back, I asked her can't you just smell that beautiful smell? she asks" which one? I said" " all the cedar and pine of course, just waiting so patiently for their next appointment on the mill bed, Her reply?  You better simmer down bubba, they will be here when you are ready,  doest'n stop me from planning! man it's like chomping at the bit,   the mill even spoke to me, (not really, I was the only one who could hear it)  it said, " lets go david" no time like the present,  I just had to shake my head and continue on past, waiting for the day, 

[Cedarman]

In no particular order.
I like the color pink and all its various shades.
I love cedar aroma.
I love answering the phone and hearing them say, "I am so glad you can make what I want, I have been looking everywhere".  Great to solve someone's problem and they love to pay me for the privilege.
I love building the business all these years.
I treasure the folks I meet on the forum and get to visit with and hunt their pigs.
See 2 sons dive in and take hold in the business.
Listening to a customer say they don't like Bill Clinton because Monica Lewinski is their best friend.
Getting to meet or talk with gobs of characters. (Like DanG, saying he will talk with the first person that calls after seeing his post on the forum. That was fun)
Knowing at one time we had cedar in all Wal-Marts and all Lowes stores in the country.  Knowing I can see my cedar in Disneyworld and Universal studios.
Having people send pictures of what they made from the cedar we sent them. Like the good wood workers on the forum, they do some great work also.
I learned to run the WM in a day, I am still learning to saw cedar to this day. And that is a pleasure.
Sawing cedar has given me a challenging career.
Happy sawing folks.

[ET]

Being one of the many new members and also new to saw milling, I almost feel like I could come to tears each time I fire up my mill. My 40 plus years of working a job I was good at but really didn't love is pale compared to the excitement I get just to load a log on the mill.  As redbeard put it , I love it.

[Sawdust Lover]

Yea, theres nothing like opening up a log to see whats inside. You never know what will come out of an old crooked log.

 

What a lucky mouse! How did you time that shot?
Bob

Bob, There were about 5 mice in the hole. By the time I got my camera the last one was headed for safety. Just good timeing I guess!

[Magicman]

I have sawed mice, flying squirrels, frogs, lizards, snakes, bats, and whatever else that I can not recall.   :-\

[drobertson]

by the most time these critters have left their home, but I suppose many have held up to keep their home, after the log turning and rolling around, dixie and missy have been on the move to run these critters arond the yard!   I have yet to run the blade through a live critter>  but there is always a first,

[Tom L]

the best thing I like about sawing is the diversity. it seems like every place I set up to saw is different and difficult.
every log is different and takes some thought about how to saw it. I have been meeting a lot of interesting people,
and I do enjoy figuring out tough situations and making them work. I seem to have put myself in these situations all my life. never seems to be the easy route. I have mentioned to a few people that I have wished this on myself when things are not going quite right. many of my peers are doing less complicated and stressed things in life, a  lot of them are doing much better than me because of it. (yet they have nothing of substance to show for it) at the end of the day it is nice to look at a large pile of finished product that I made, knowing that a hard situation was overcome to get there. to me there is nothing better than thinking of a better way and increasing productivity in the process.

[terrifictimbersllc]

Maybe someone has to say it again......driving out at the end of a day with a paycheck, my radio station on, the lumber and sawdust in my mirror,  and finally getting to finish my coffee and lunch.

[woodyone.john]

The smell,the color,the patterns. The things I've made,the many things yet to make!Straight out wood voyuer!

[scully]

 It took so long for me to get my mill . I had been around them for a very long time . The feeling I got everytime I saw that band tear into a log was pure excitement ! It still amazes me to see what I can create when I saw ! I admire and love the lifestyle and the people you meet ! It gives me a sense of balance or center . There is something pure and satisfying about milling ! This day in age with all the big corperate world rat race people looking for work ,getting big educations etc. It seems most lose site of what real skill and creativity are all about . I don't belong in that world ! I am much more comfortable covered in sawdust !