A day cutting wood

[Bandmill Bandit]

In good logs and set up with good help I consistently get 300BF/hr including all things related to the processing of the logs available. no band sharpening included

This last job was 2 evenings totaling 7 hours with a total production of 2890 BF total for an average 412/hr. (my daily average so far this season is just under 2500BF daily

Used 1 bimetal blade for this job and it is still on the mill.

You don't get cut lists and logs that allow you to do that very often and cutting for maximum yield AND best appearance per log. 3 of the 8'X8"s came out of 10-11 inch small end logs with about 10 % wane max. Taper was less than 2 inches on all 3 of 10' logs these posts came out of. 

The ONLY 1" material was the incidental boards that I needed to trim out to get to the cut list dimensions and there were less than 200 BF of that.  Some times they were a 1/2" off of 2 sides to reduce wane as much as possible.(8"X8"s)

Smallest dimension on this cut list was 2"X7"X9' and the largest was 8"X8"X10'(x4) and 3"X9"X21' and 3"X9"X16' for about 75% of the cut list. This is a job where customer was better with the hourly rate over a BF rate.

2890BF X .35=$1011.00 and his invoice is $700.00 for 7 hours of sawing.

The way I operate this is very often the situation.

Thankyou for the compliment Peter.
On the lights, the placement works well and i am going to change them all out to LEDs to get higher lumens and more flood effect. 

[Chuck White]

I usually cut 1,500 - 1,800 bf in a day!

I have one off-bearer!

[YellowHammer]

My Cat TH460B should be here next week.  8) 8)

I'm happy for you, that's a good machine.  We had one at work, and it was nice. 
Is Big John being put out to pasture? 

[Peter Drouin]

New family member, 8) 8) 8)







  

  

  

 
Has a quick connect on it , Will lift 9000lb and put it 44' in the air,
Bucket and grapple is on the list now.

[Bruno of NH]

Nice looking Cat
You will make some high stacks now

[thecfarm]

That will make things easier.

[Peter Drouin]

Nice looking Cat
You will make some high stacks now

I want to lift the roof off the lumber shed and go up 12 more feet. :D :D :D :D
The 40' addition will have a high roof.

That will make things easier.

Yes it will on a 45' log. John will only lift 2500 lb



How are things going with you two?

[thecfarm]

Things are a going. Brenda is have some issues again. Or should I say still. Pulse is low. Test will be done next week.

[4x4American]

Nice!  Looks to me like it's the same IT quick attach mount my hoe uses.  Come winter time you'll be able to have some pretty high snowbanks :D


When you're loading the mill with it will you be able to see the right side or you gonna have to buy some mirrors?

[Darrel]

Looks good Peter, but you know what they say. You can stack it higher and deeper but your waders are only good to a certain point.  :D

[Peter Drouin]

Cfarm I hope it will work out for her,



4x4, with a grapple I think I'll be ok.



Darrel, :D :D :D :D :D so true

First thing this morning I'm going to unplug the back up beeper.

[Bruno of NH]

Peter
Been busy milling and selling wood also doing a job in Lebanon for a change.
It reminds me how i don't like traveling for work anymore 

[Peter Drouin]

You want the lumber where?


 
:D :D

I have to learn all over on how to pile lumber in the barn. Just when I had it all figured out with John.
I almost push out the back wall, and lifted the roof up some.


 

Even with John I would get wood chips or mud of the forks that would fall on the wood.
I'm always sweeping the lumber off.
Do you guys and girls have the same problem?


 


Hay Bruno, you say you can sell slabs, then you're a better salesman than me.  :D :D :D :D
I have had this stuff all summer,


 
2"x20"  5/4x22 some with live edge. At a $1.50 a BF no one wants it.  :D :D :D :D

[longtime lurker]

Sand and grit wreak havoc on planer blades during downstream processing for sure. Thats one of the reasons I've stayed away from a pallet based lumber storage system: anything on the underside of a pallet gets ground down into the top layer of the pack below. The dunnaging system we use is a PITA and slower but not so slow as changing out blades on the drymill gear.

I'd like to tell ya that concrete floors alleviate all that but machines track dirt around my floors so much it aint much better then dirt during the wet season anyway... well except that it aint knee deep in mud in there.

[grouch]

Will that be high enough to keep the bears out of the bees and bird feeders?

[78NHTFY]

Peter--with that fancy new machine you could go vertical & build your new storage shed at least 4 stories high 8) 8) 8).  Hey, nice to see that you got such a great addition to your operation.....All the best, Rob.

[coxy]

should air dry quicker up that high  ;D   good luck with your new toy  8)

[Peter Drouin]

It will lift a lot of lumber. BUT, the higher you go the more [rock] you have. I picked up 5 pallets a lumber and all most dumped them over. Had to set it down and take off the top 2.
So I set them down in front of the door . Then I pick all of them and boom in seams to work. Not drive around with 5. :D :D :D :D
My slab rack was made for John. But, The cat is wider than the rack. With the cat I have to retool some stuff.   :

[Bruno of NH]

Peter
That will lift

[Peter Drouin]

Getting in and out of the cat can be a pain with the way the step is set up.
See how the steps are under the cab so not to catch things.


  

 

My fix.


  

 
I won't be driving over logs, so I think I'm ok.  :D :D
I needed a non slip surface, so I put my name in it. ;D

[Dave Shepard]

I know exactly what you are talking about, Peter. That will be ten times more convenient.  8)

[longtime lurker]

It will lift a lot of lumber. BUT, the higher you go the more [rock] you have. I picked up 5 pallets a lumber and all most dumped them over. Had to set it down and take off the top 2.

There's an OH&S guideline here that says stack height shouldn't be more then 4 times it's width. Seems about right - we take a lot of care to keep them flat and even then the 4th one up is verging on wobbly. Been driving me nuts for years - all these big high roofs and I cant stack that high because I prefer to keep my packs at 30" wide, but the next logical width is 46" and at that width they're a pain for a whole heap of other reasons. ( pressure treatment cylinder is 34" wide so we'd have to restack if we wanted to treat them/ need fork extensions on all the time/ just generally too wide to be easy to stack without walking around the pack all the time)

30" = 3 stickered packs to truck width. 46" = 2 of them. Don't freight a lot of stickered packs but sometimes you might want to and it's just easy to standardize on one width of pack. Making truck loading easy and fast opened up a lot of doors for us with regards the line haul freight boys on the interstate runs.

[Peter Drouin]

4' wide is the US standard here. Forks are 4' too. I make my pallets 4' deep and whatever wide. 4x4 do you make your packs 4' deep?

[4x4American]

Yup, my packs are 4'

[Dave Shepard]

My stickered stacks are 4', but I've been dead stacking at 42". It seems to load on trucks and trailers better.