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

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TimW

So the Red Oak boards will be siding?
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WV Sawmiller

  Interesting design if I understand it correctly. Are you saying the floor will be roughly 4' above ground? I don't understand the concept.

    It does look like some pretty logs. How wide are the boards he is having you cut? Wide goes up fast but they cup too bad.
Howard Green
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Magicman

The 1X12's & 1X4's will be B&B siding.  The 1X6's, 8's & 10's will be used inside for whatever.

Quote from: WV Sawmiller on January 27, 2025, 09:46:39 PMAre you saying the floor will be roughly 4' above ground? I don't understand the concept.
Yes, but I do not understand what is not to understand?  The left uphill side is probably 2' above the ground.
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WV Sawmiller

Thanks. From the picture I thought I was seeing the low side and figured if it was 4' I was wondering if they could walk under the high side. ffcheesy
Howard Green
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jpassardi

Lynn,
Is he going to get the RO siding nailed up before it dries so he doesn't have to pre-drill? 
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Magicman

He should not have any problem with splitting by shooting nails through it with a nail gun.  If he does, then he will have to cross that bridge then.  These trees died during the drought in '23.  The sapwood has all rotted so his boards are almost 100% heartwood.  All of the lumber is being stickered and hopefully I can get a picture tomorrow when I finish sawing.


Here are eye popper bookmatched pieces that he will use for a table, sawed 1 1/2".


Here is a 2" spalted piece that will be either a table or a bench.

I will finish tomorrow after sawing the customary ERC logs.  Yup, everyone just happens to have a few out behind the barn.
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Magicman

Quote from: jpassardi on January 28, 2025, 07:57:30 AMIs he going to get the RO siding nailed up before it dries so he doesn't have to pre-drill?
He is going to drill and screw.

I finished sawing this morning, 2 1/2 days yielding 2764bf.  It should have easily been at least 500 more bf, but the sapwood on some of the Oak logs was spalted/rotten and had to be discarded.  I slabbed down to the solid heartwood.  Lotsa loss.


This is part of the lumber plus there was another whack and plus today's sawing was still on the trailer.

I brought the sawmill home, parked it in it's spot until Monday's sawing, and went home for lunch.  A doctor customer called and said that he had just dropped 3 logs off at the sawmill.  ??  Now how did he drop 3 logs off, so I had to take a look-see?  smiley_headscratch


Yes he exactly did what he said and I will give him points for being able to count....none for the definition of a "log".  The bottom two stems are Walnut, but so far I have no idea about the top one.  It kinda has Elm'y or even Pecan looking bark but it was light in weight.  I'll find out Monday when I bust it open if I can figure out a way to clamp it.  I see a sacrificial 2X6 in my future.

I have twenty 2X12 X 16' to saw Monday and then nothing planned until Saturday the 8th and finishing Monday the 10th if needed.  That job is eleven very nice 10' SYP logs to be sawed into mostly 2X4's for a new home. 
 
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jpassardi

Did the doctor ask you to mill tongue depressors out of those nub logs?  ffcheesy
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Magicman

Actually, he wants ~4X4's.  He will use his Powermatic bandsaw to break them down further as he decides on projects.

I have sawed for him many times (6-8) and apparently he thinks Magicman means miracles.  He has a variety of 8-10 logs for me to saw at his normal site, but I reckon he needs these now.  I shoulda asked if he had an appointment??   ffcheesy  
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Nebraska

Those logs are like the occasional random animals that get dropped off at the office from time to time.  ffsmiley 

Magicman

I have small sawing jobs this week so I will be moving the mill each day.  Hot (80° for 3 days) but the good thing is no rain in the forecast.

Fairly large job next week, probably 4 days on it. 
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Magicman

Welp, today started my fast/slow week:


This customer wanted 420 1/4" X 1 1/2" SYP strips, which is what he got.  ffsmiley



Then on to these 3 "logs" for my doctor customer.


I used a landscape timber for a side support.


And made two 4X4's from the Walnut.


And then on to the "mystery wood".


And made a 4X6.


Nope, no longer a mystery....it is Catalpa.  :thumbsup:

Today is done and tomorrow will be Cypress & SYP. 

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WV Sawmiller

Lynn,

   I hope you had a couple of good strong helpers to off-bear those heavy strips, 4X4's and mystery wood. We all know how heavy that catalpa can be. ffcheesy
Howard Green
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GAB

Quote from: Magicman on February 03, 2025, 02:03:20 PMWelp, today started my fast/slow week:


This customer wanted 420 1/4" X 1 1/2" SYP strips, which is what he got.  ffsmiley
Those should make good and stiff tongue depressors.
If you charged by the bdft you made out well.
I'm curious how many boards you had on the mill at a time when doing your last cut.
GAB
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Magicman

Five 2X12 X 16' at the time each making 28 plus the 1" dog board.  28 X 15 = 420. 

Took 1 1/2 hr. @ $125 = $188.  I was satisfied plus it gave me plenty of time to take care of the doctor's "logs" and get that delivered.  As I said; "fast/slow week".
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Magicman

Oh My, I just went and looked at a "whole house" framing lumber job that is still standing. :shocked2:

Two of these babies that are probably 50' to the lowest limb. 


And 40" DBH.  They carry so well that I doubt that the log's top end will be over an inch smaller than the butt.  He will fall three more trees that will easily be 32"-36" DBH.

He has his faller lined up that has a 100HP skid steer and his sawing site picked out.  It's level but it will be several months before it dries out enough.  I told him July-August.

My tomorrow guy called and he has his help lined up and ready.

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TimW

Looks like someone has a contract to screen in lots of porches.
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TimW

I forgot to take photos.  I had a 14 foot Pine log that was 24 inches at each end.  I cut an inch off of each end to see a brownish heart.  The jacket boards made normal looking SYP 2x12s.  But the cant threw brownish sawdust and the boards were a brownish tint.  There was rot in the heart that I have only seen in ERC.  The log was straight with no extenal knots, but had a huge knot grown over. 

  Two boards with rot in one end about a foot from the end that I could poke a stick thru.  No rot around the rotten random rotted "circles".  At first I thought they were just strange looking knots.  Some of the heart had length wise rot.  Externally, the log looked like a prize winner that was just cut down. 
    What caused the brownish tint and the rot?

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Magicman

Hard to say, just a diseased tree that probably started in the ground which took out the tap root so nothing was holding it up but the feeder roots. 

The heart of all trees is essentially dead and it only serves as strength for the tree.  The sapwood/cambium are providing the "lifeblood" link between the leaves and roots.
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TimW

Lynn,
 What size boards are you cutting the Cypress into?
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Magicman

Well that is an easy question to answer.  ffsmiley


Today's job was two 20' and one 18' SYP and three 12' Cypress logs.


The Pine was sawn into full size 2X4's and 1X4's.


The butt swells on the Cypress butt logs measured 37".  I prefer that the butts are toward the front, but they weren't.


Surprisingly 100% of the Cypress was sawn into 1X4's.  I just do what the customer asks.

This entire job was a Goodwill job for a legally blind friend and even though I sorta disagreed with his cut list, I did not question him nor offer any alternative suggestions.  I have known him for 40+ years and he is a good craftsman and always turns out good work.  I have sawed for him probably 5-6 times.

He did not expect a "paid in full" invoice but he could not deny me the opportunity to receive the joy and blessing of giving.

I am now off until Thursday still fulfilling my fast/slow week.
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TimW

Paid in Full.  Awesome Lynn.  You're 10 foot 10 inches, now, in my book!
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Machinebuilder

I have been working at some understory and not good tree clearing on a small part of my land.

There was a decent size pine but leaning a lot. I got 2 12' logs out of it.

Yesterday I decided to cut it into what ever I could get 1 5/8 thick, I can cut it into what I need later.

I will say it cut so much easier than the red oak I typically mill. I also had to scrub the resin off my arms.

Sorry no pictures and I ended the day by hitting a backstop............
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Magicman

Leaners generally have off-center piths and will usually show stress related movement. 

I brushed a side support last week.  I was edging wide flitches and watching the wrong side.  I did not take a picture of that either.  ffcheesy
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jpassardi

"Brushed a side support" - I'm not sure what you mean by that...  smiley_headscratch  ffcheesy
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