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General Board / Re: The weather 2024

Last post by Stumpjump - Today at 07:01:46 AM

We've had a wonderful, non-globally warmed spring here in central Virginia.  Mostly cool, plenty of rain.  Maybe a bit too much rain (ruined our last farmer's market, we made only a pittance).  But overall you couldn't ask for more.  No sudden transition to summer this May so far.  Still has run pretty cool, although finally warming up this week to low 80s.

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Timber Framing/Log construction / Re: Spruce? Green or dried?

Last post by AaronS - Today at 06:57:45 AM

Great advice, thanks everyone!

barbender, that's probably the widest check I've ever seen.

Would painting the ends be beneficial after cutting the logs to slow down the drying? Or would that just mean I have to wait longer?

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General Board / Re: It's a Go! 2024 FF Pigroa...

Last post by aigheadish - Today at 06:39:43 AM

Got ya on the list, but it's really 38. I see the "long trek" is a joke! I love it!

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General Board / Re: Francis Scott Key Bridge C...

Last post by Peter Drouin - Today at 06:29:00 AM

Next up, a spectacular billion dollar bridge fiasco!

 Will see how that goes. 

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Tree, Plant and Wood I.D. / Re: Cherrybark or Southern red...

Last post by Don P - Today at 06:26:32 AM

It is not our prime red oak, northern red. That's the wide fat full leaf. Most of the time scarlet yields more utility board type stuff than furniture grade but there are good ones. If you want more of either we have a good bit of red on a site we cut.

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General Board / Re: Having to Buy Tires.

Last post by Peter Drouin - Today at 06:25:06 AM

The last time I got tires I told them to put them on new rims. All 4 The salt here is bad.

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Forestry and Logging / Re: Humboldt vs. Conventional

Last post by WhitePineJunky - Today at 06:14:47 AM

That's a good thing, a meaningful discussion of why a particular approach is used. On the flats, I use a conventional and have the hinge in a root flare if possible. Certainly as close to the edge to Get ALL of the wood I can to the landing. Can save over a ft per tree vs. Humboldt partly because to use a Humboldt I would have the bar in the dirt to cut that low. So save a foot a tree using conventional and My log buyers takes the measurement FROM the base on the veneer & trees where the face cut is out of the money wood. Adds up quick at over a buck a foot. Using the conventional on a typical 100 tree job is 100ft of timber. Also typically pine and other soft wood around here is less than 300 a thousand, so LOTS vs every bit of it is the norm AND feller bunchers as it's tough for a logger to make a living getting 1/2 of 300 a thousand on soft wood. Out west soft wood is the norm. Here Hard Wood with much higher value is the norm. Different techniques to maximize return on investment have been developed in both area's. Why it's tough to listen to the one size fits all and push for Humboldt's by some of the large high volume Pacific North West Canadian channels for anything other than pure entertainment and to see other peoples worlds.

If I left a conventional face in a veneer alder log out here you'd have more then deduction you'd have a free cull log to the mill there's reason we do what we do, are you really gaining anything with a conventional face with a "lower" stump? How low are you cutting? If my sight cut is as low as the top of the face cut are who is wasting more wood?

But are you also considering what was mentioned above ? If you need an extra couple inches or you see you'll have close to a 16' log so you cut low as possible, it pays off, you made 16 instead of coming short an inch or two . Maybe it's different on your big timber out there, on my stuff I cut 10"-2ft , I can always get lower with a conventional, maybe it matter less on the big timber your way? Just trying to understand thanks for input skeans

Let's take what the mill wants out of the equation to, I don't have any deduction for selling mine like that here

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General Board / Re: The weather 2024

Last post by Peter Drouin - Today at 06:07:25 AM

Been some nice weather here. Dry!! And even some sun!!!
Suppose to hit at least 80 today.

I hope so 

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General Board / Re: The weather 2024

Last post by Ianab - Today at 06:05:25 AM

We are fine here, just a bit of cool rain, Norrth and East have been slammed. Auckland recorded 80mm of of rain in an hour overnight. That's over 3". in an hour. Fortunately it wasn't longer duration as the front moved over. Some other small scale flooding over on the East, but just rain here. 

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FOOD! FOOD! FOOD! / Re: 2024 Garden Seeds and Star...

Last post by thecfarm - Today at 05:16:40 AM

The trouble with gardening in our climate. if a mistake is made, it's too late for that year. 

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