Whatcha Sawin' 2025 ??

[SawyerTed]

Nice whack of logs!

Sawing 31 in a day is a bunch as well!   

Sorry about the truck trouble.   Hope it turns out to be an easy fix.  

[WV Sawmiller]

yes. And the towing truck driver tried to jump w/no results.

[Resonator]

Hopefully Howard you can get the no-go problem figured out.
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Spruce.

Sawed up the spruce logs I cut from standing dead trees for natural edge paneling. Minimal areas of grain were borderline soft/rot, some had nice blue staining.

Red Oak.

Took a break from sawing spruce, and sawed up the red oak log pieces I got from member Otis1 back in February (reply #152 and #156).

Sawed it all 4/4 (1") random width, and gave me a chance to practice YellowHammer's RRQS technique. These are some of the boards that "hit" good ray pattern. I can definitely tell bigger diameter logs give a better growth ring target to aim for, and more wide boards after they are edged. Thinking of ways to index the logs a few degrees at a time as I saw them, and still hold them secure. Will think on it more.

One of the lumber stacks. Think I got a couple hundred board feet, still stacking and counting. Plenty of good clear straight grain boards, a couple are already spoken for to be made into cribbage boards. Thanks again Otis1 for the logs!

[terrifictimbersllc]

Out the door at 4:45 am tomorrow, 90 miles, 3000+bf of possibly rotten fir and spruce, plus other stuff. Nice customer, probably overnight, guest cottage, wife coming too, dinner out, it will be an adventure.  

[Magicman]

Take care and enjoy. 

[Hackeldam Wood Products]

A tow truck company that wants it towed to the road first. I heard it all now! I owned my own tow trucks for 20 years. Good luck , Howard.

You are all sawing some nice logs. I have been to busy since I retired to fire up the mill. 

Maybe today!

[Hackeldam Wood Products]

Howard, I would have come and got you!
Sometime in the 1980's my first wrecker was a 49 Chevy with 29,000 original miles one owner. 

That's me in the 1990's with a 84 International flatbed. Great truck.

[Magicman]

Nice trucks/wreckers.  It's crazy how sharp IH trucks can turn. 

[Resonator]

Those old twin boom Holmes wreckers are neat. They were designed so one boom could be swung out and the line secured to an anchor point, and the other boom swung out to "fish" the a car out of a ditch. Big trees along the highway were referred to as "Holmes trees", as they were the ones the tow trucks would hook onto. 

One of the local milk tanker truck drivers had the same vintage IH as your wrecker, (believe it had the DT466). From what I was told it had couple million miles on it when he retired. It was sold, and lived on as a maple sap hauler.

[Magicman]

 I will start unloading and cleaning my work/sawmilling truck today.  I took off two weeks before this last job and I am hopefully planning three weeks or a month this time.  I am smelling some salty air.

I am either refusing or passing off distant jobs.  This is all part of my slowing-down/semi-retiring objective.

[WV Sawmiller]

   I left home at 0630 and returned to the same site 53 miles away. Here were the logs remaining.





   We sawed hard all day and finished about 20 very big logs. I think we have 28 logs left plus 8 20' to saw into 7X7 beams. I sawed some 4X12X16 and 4X8X16 beams today.

    At about 7:00 pm we quit and here is what the yard looks like.





    We have not tallied the lumber yet but here are the stack I saw on the way out.





    Looks like another long day tomorrow and may a short day Sunday to finish. My customer had to leave and stopped at a local store and saw a neighbor and they talked about our sawing now it sounds like he has logs nearby he may want sawed.

[Magicman]

Looking good Howard.