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Started by Magicman, December 30, 2024, 04:22:19 PM

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barbender

Too many irons in the fire

TimW

Mahindra 6520 4WD with loader/backhoe and a Caterpiller E70 Excavator.  My mill is a Woodmizer LT40HD Wide 35hp Yanmar Diesel. An old Lull 644D-34 called Bull

Magicman

Hey Tim, good to see you come up for air, a refreshing breath of Forestry Forum air that is.  :thumbsup:
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doc henderson

Timber king 2000, 277c track loader, PJ 32 foot gooseneck, 1976 F700 state dump truck, JD 850 tractor.  2007 Chevy 3500HD dually, home built log splitter 18 horse 28 gpm with 5 inch cylinder and 32 inch split range with conveyor powered by a 12 volt tarp motor

TimW

Was gonna saw more cedar trim boards today.  Got up earlier to do just that.  Then the phone rang from my log supplier.  Got 10 nice SYP logs to make more sawdust.
6 here and 4 more didn't get a photo.  Oops.  Glad to get them as I was down to 2 pine logs.  So I had a day off from sawing
Mahindra 6520 4WD with loader/backhoe and a Caterpiller E70 Excavator.  My mill is a Woodmizer LT40HD Wide 35hp Yanmar Diesel. An old Lull 644D-34 called Bull

Magicman

Those SYP logs are what sawing SYP is all about.  ffcool
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Two: First Place Wood-Mizer Personal Best Awards
The First: Wood-Mizer People's Choice Award

It's Weird being the same age as Old People

Never allow your Need to make money
To exceed your Desire to provide Quality Service

TimW

Happiness is a full load of straight logs.  I have worked with my log guy long enough for him (and his loader operators) to know to not try to load knotty  or pretzel logs.
Mahindra 6520 4WD with loader/backhoe and a Caterpiller E70 Excavator.  My mill is a Woodmizer LT40HD Wide 35hp Yanmar Diesel. An old Lull 644D-34 called Bull

TimW

Remember the Cedar 3 inch thick cookies I cut last year?  They were up to 36 inches around and was the butt of the log.

This is the next 13 feet.  It sure will make some nice long baseboards for the church.  I cut up to dark this evening, because the mill was in regen.  So I cut until regen finished.  Tomorrow I will get cut photos.
Mahindra 6520 4WD with loader/backhoe and a Caterpiller E70 Excavator.  My mill is a Woodmizer LT40HD Wide 35hp Yanmar Diesel. An old Lull 644D-34 called Bull

TimW

I finished the Church cedar trim today.  I hope.  1808 linear feet.  We will find out tomorrow if we cut enough, as the guys are installing it then.  I will check in on them later afternoon for the good news or bad news.
Mahindra 6520 4WD with loader/backhoe and a Caterpiller E70 Excavator.  My mill is a Woodmizer LT40HD Wide 35hp Yanmar Diesel. An old Lull 644D-34 called Bull

Nebraska

I doubt I will ever get to saw a cedar log that large ever, wowzers that was nice. 
I have a lot  but but not much over 12 inches or so. 

doc henderson

I have had a few, but most with heart rot.
Timber king 2000, 277c track loader, PJ 32 foot gooseneck, 1976 F700 state dump truck, JD 850 tractor.  2007 Chevy 3500HD dually, home built log splitter 18 horse 28 gpm with 5 inch cylinder and 32 inch split range with conveyor powered by a 12 volt tarp motor

jpassardi

Yeah, forget it around here. I read in a local history book that there was an area in town that they set up a circle mill years ago had a concentration of cedar. Of course they logged it clean so there are no more...  smiley_thumbsdown
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jpassardi

Working the LT15 with some more oversized EWP this weekend. Had to do some chainsaw notching on this 35" one. We have a half dozen more big boys then normal size ones.

LT15 W/Trailer, Log Turner, Power Feed & up/down
CAT 416 Backhoe W/ Self Built Hydraulic Thumb and Forks
Husky 372XP, 550XPG, 60, 50,   WM CBN Sharpener & Setter
40K # Excavator, Bobcat 763, Kubota RTV 900
Orlan Wood Gasification Boiler -Slab Disposer

TimW

That is the last of my large cedar logs for awhile.  I have a 16 foot one that is about 16 inches at the butt and I can shove a 3 foot long screw driver up the rot hole.  Here is one I cut up for the trim.  Just too much rot for wide boards.  So I was able to cut down into the rot from 4 sides.
Mahindra 6520 4WD with loader/backhoe and a Caterpiller E70 Excavator.  My mill is a Woodmizer LT40HD Wide 35hp Yanmar Diesel. An old Lull 644D-34 called Bull

TimW

Here is the monster cedar right after I got it home.  Butt was 36 inches and the first 40 inches went into 2 and 3 inch thick Cedar cookies.  The pallet it is on is 12 feet long.
It and a trailer log of cedar was free.  Just cost me going and getting them and 2 six foot mantels.
Mahindra 6520 4WD with loader/backhoe and a Caterpiller E70 Excavator.  My mill is a Woodmizer LT40HD Wide 35hp Yanmar Diesel. An old Lull 644D-34 called Bull

TimW

Quote from: jpassardi on January 19, 2025, 04:08:24 PMWorking the LT15 with some more oversized EWP this weekend. Had to do some chainsaw notching on this 35" one. We have a half dozen more big boys then normal size ones.


I can't imagine taking on those monsters without hydraulics!
Mahindra 6520 4WD with loader/backhoe and a Caterpiller E70 Excavator.  My mill is a Woodmizer LT40HD Wide 35hp Yanmar Diesel. An old Lull 644D-34 called Bull

TimW

Any body up for a :snowball: fight.  We suppose to get 4 inches of the white stuff in 2 days.
Last time it snowed here was in 2021 and I was just fixin to saw in the snow when the power went out for 6 days.  Right then and there I decided to get a whole house generator and a 1000 gallon propane tank.
This time I just plan on building a life size snow man.  Never built one.  He will come to life with my straw cowboy hat!
Mahindra 6520 4WD with loader/backhoe and a Caterpiller E70 Excavator.  My mill is a Woodmizer LT40HD Wide 35hp Yanmar Diesel. An old Lull 644D-34 called Bull

TimW

Quote from: Magicman on January 14, 2025, 08:29:31 AMHey Tim, good to see you come up for air, a refreshing breath of Forestry Forum air that is.  :thumbsup:
Come up for air?  Friday I finished the cedar trim job in drizzling rain. Saturday, the wind was ripping hard and I was feeling under the weather.  I was gonna sleep in this morning, but my daughter used her key and came in to cook me breakfast and usher us off to church.  I had to eat the eggs and toast on the way to church!  So I hope to sleep in tomorrow morning!!!
Mahindra 6520 4WD with loader/backhoe and a Caterpiller E70 Excavator.  My mill is a Woodmizer LT40HD Wide 35hp Yanmar Diesel. An old Lull 644D-34 called Bull

jpassardi

Quote from: TimW on January 20, 2025, 12:07:51 AM
Quote from: jpassardi on January 19, 2025, 04:08:24 PMWorking the LT15 with some more oversized EWP this weekend. Had to do some chainsaw notching on this 35" one. We have a half dozen more big boys then normal size ones.


I can't imagine taking on those monsters without hydraulics!

Tim, Although I don't have hydraulics I do have "Electraulics"  :wink_2: . I don't think I could do it without my winch driven claw turner. I also made power up/down & feed for it.

For those of us saps without hydraulics & drag back: This is the most efficient setup I have found. Slabs to the left on cribbing to be removed with forks. HD horses for boards and flitches to be removed with forks.
CAT BH w/ 6' forks will reach over slabs and still remove a large cant. Large logs are loaded from end of mill with loader, small with BH/thumb. Sawdust removed w/ pails/bin.
I'm open to suggestions to improve material flow/handling.
LT15 W/Trailer, Log Turner, Power Feed & up/down
CAT 416 Backhoe W/ Self Built Hydraulic Thumb and Forks
Husky 372XP, 550XPG, 60, 50,   WM CBN Sharpener & Setter
40K # Excavator, Bobcat 763, Kubota RTV 900
Orlan Wood Gasification Boiler -Slab Disposer

GAB

Quote from: TimW on January 20, 2025, 12:11:13 AMThis time I just plan on building a life size snow man.  Never built one.  He will come to life with my straw cowboy hat!
Build your snowman on a good solid stump.  A stump make a good solid snowman start/base and if some wise individual decides to take it down with their car you can have the last laugh.  just make sure the stump is well covered with snow.
GAB
 
W-M LT40HDD34, SLR, JD 420, JD 950w/loader and Woods backhoe, V3507 Fransguard winch, Cordwood Saw, 18' flat bed trailer, and other toys.

TimW

I don't have stumps down here.  I got a CAT!
Mahindra 6520 4WD with loader/backhoe and a Caterpiller E70 Excavator.  My mill is a Woodmizer LT40HD Wide 35hp Yanmar Diesel. An old Lull 644D-34 called Bull

Hackeldam Wood Products

Not sawing anything we are enjoying a old time January in the N.E.

Five or six days with lows below zero. Highs in the teens. Going to start warming up today and the sun is slightly higher everyday.

How are the southern gentlemen dealing with your recent snow fall? 

Rich
Woodmizer LT 40
New Holland 35 hp tractor
Stihl Chainsaws
Ford 340 Backhoe

Magicman

Three jobs have popped in within the past 24 hours.  One from a previous customer and two from new customers.  That makes 12 customers waiting (again).  That plus my plan is to sloooow down.

I am refusing to saw any beetle killed SYP from 2023.
98 Wood-Mizer LT40 SuperHydraulic    WM Million BF Club

Two: First Place Wood-Mizer Personal Best Awards
The First: Wood-Mizer People's Choice Award

It's Weird being the same age as Old People

Never allow your Need to make money
To exceed your Desire to provide Quality Service

TimW

What I am gonna saw....24 foot SYP 24 inches at the butt.  Gonna mill it into nice truss 2x6s.
Mahindra 6520 4WD with loader/backhoe and a Caterpiller E70 Excavator.  My mill is a Woodmizer LT40HD Wide 35hp Yanmar Diesel. An old Lull 644D-34 called Bull

Magicman

This is my present job that I began this morning:


27 Red Oak logs the smallest @ ~10" top end and the largest @ ~24" top end.  All 1" lumber.  We got 13 of them sawn by quitting time @4:00 this afternoon.  The largest are yet to be sawn so we will not finish tomorrow.

He is building a huge "barndominium".


The floor joist which are about 4' above the ground can be seen to the right of the wrecked/covered truck. 
98 Wood-Mizer LT40 SuperHydraulic    WM Million BF Club

Two: First Place Wood-Mizer Personal Best Awards
The First: Wood-Mizer People's Choice Award

It's Weird being the same age as Old People

Never allow your Need to make money
To exceed your Desire to provide Quality Service

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