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Forestry and Logging / Re: Indeterminable bind
Last post by David B - Today at 01:02:32 AMReaming helps...seems to be more a west coast thing? If there are sticks handy, I drop a few in my shirt pocket and shove them in as I go. If after the cut you still have end bind, they act as rollers.
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Forestry and Logging / Re: Log myself or hire someone...
Last post by BargeMonkey - Today at 12:45:30 AMYup it's dangerous. Check and see what classes are offered in your area, GOL, forestry education, BMPs, my wife's taking the logger rescue course this weekend. Proper equipment, PPE, the days of Joe-bob and the chainsaw are rapidly coming to an end on any larger timber sales here. I love how forester's are put on such a pedestal of holiness when it comes to selling a woodlot, no disrespect to the ones here but 80% of the ones I've dealt with can be bought and are typically slippery than the loggers cutting the wood, and they make sure they get their money. Forester flat out told me, "I work with the landowner 1, 2, maybe 3x, I work with you on a constant basis". Send it out to bid, what are you going to do when 4 people bid and 3 out of the 4 already talked it over ? You know what happens when a forester is way short 3-4x on a bid around here ? He doesn't sell jobs, Ive seen jobs with 30-50k+ ft over run, dont think someones not getting paid. Seen entire jobs walk off and the landowner didn't get a dime, took the game cameras and all. Log buyers are just as slippery, they are probably the worst. The landowner is almost always going to go with the biggest promise of money, deal with the mess later. I've had landowners literally watch me load the truck, ride to the mill with me, watch the check get cut, and go "Thats all it pays" ? Because their sisters cousins friend made 1mil bucks on her walnut job. Shady game your getting yourself into before the woods danger. Again, ask around I'm sure you can find someone qualified, insurance ? people love cash, send it.
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Forestry and Logging / Re: Daily Fabrication Thread
Last post by David B - Yesterday at 11:45:10 PM #4
Forestry and Logging / Re: Log myself or hire someone...
Last post by David B - Yesterday at 11:31:19 PMOo, oo, I have half a brain!
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Forestry and Logging / Re: Cutting a troublesome lean...
Last post by David B - Yesterday at 11:22:51 PM #6
Sawmills and Milling / Re: Customer's projects pictur...
Last post by TimW - Yesterday at 11:07:27 PMMy customer put this together after I had air dried and planed the pine. 20 inch wide corner cabinet for my daughter Rebecca's birthday.
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Forestry and Logging / Re: Log myself or hire someone...
Last post by 230Dforme - Yesterday at 10:02:05 PMGood evening, the five or six experienced loggers that I knew who were killed in the woods, and the ones who were injured and survived all vote no. Hire a reputable logger, he will earn his money and you can safely count yours.
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The Outdoor Board / Re: Bass fishing today
Last post by Magicman - Yesterday at 09:05:22 PMDat is reason to be excited!! 
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Sawmills and Milling / Where do you get such wide wal...
Last post by Larry - Yesterday at 09:04:36 PM
A 18" diameter top on a Shaker candle stand I completed last week.
I had to tell the truth. My board was at best 1c or a lower grade. I'm far to cheap to use those wide boards in my projects.
I did take the question as a complement and went on to explain grain matching. I get irritated when I see these big tables with huge price tags and the maker made no attempt to match the grain.
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Sawmills and Milling / Re: Customer's projects pictur...
Last post by Magicman - Yesterday at 09:01:33 PMQuote from: Wlmedley on Yesterday at 07:36:56 PMwhat is it going to be used for?Yes it does have a lotta porch. The front and right sides are concrete. The left side and rear are gravel with treated 6X6's. His Kutota tractor is parked in the rear.
There is plumbing in the floor in the left rear of the open center area.
I sawed 7644bf for him last year and 3113bf this year. Here is this year: LINK
