Sawing season begins

[Magicman]

No more excuses.  It didn't rain today and was above 50^o.....   I've been off a month and folks are stopping me and asking "when"  ???



I had to start with an ugly White oak, but ugly has to be sawed too.




Stopped for lunch, and my new FF hat came in.

[southpaw]

Congrats MM  8), I have project that I need to saw for I found out about today. Looking for a day or two like you had and I'll be there too.  ;)

[ohsoloco]

I prefer to saw when it's below 50 degrees 

[woodmills1]

nice work magic


over 32 would be nice here

[poor farmer/logger]

Always nice to get started again. We fired ours up here the other day. Been in a deep freeze for so long but it finally broke and got up above 32 again. Don't know how much longer it's goning to stay though. Probably be 30 below again before to long. Probably the day before we go back to the bush it'll turn nasty again.

Is that a variety of pine in the background that's standing? Looks like our Jack Pine up here but 100 times better.

Ryan

[captain_crunch]

Magicman
Ya can't make sawdust setting on butt showing off new hat ;D ;D ;D (cant help it just the way I am and please leave out the part about educated donkey in reply) :D :D
P_F_L
Guess liveing in Oregon has spoiled me about trees so I have to ask where are they in pic
Here is a pic of Kristen (Crunchette as she was known as on RP mag) standing in a few trees

[fishpharmer]

Magicman, you slacker, about time you tightened up. ;) :D :D ;D ;D

The last two days have been awesome. 

[Coalsmoke]

Good to see that you're back at it. It has been so slow up here lately. Was working 80hours / week up until November, then 60hours until week before Christmas, I took the Christmas to New Years week off, and so far in January I think I have put 6 hours on the mill  :-\

Captain Crunch, I'll only say this once, "Nice wood you got"   :D

[DanG]

Those are some mighty pretty trees there, Captain Crunch, but I didn't see one laying on the mill. ;) ;D

[ladylake]

That log is pretty compared to the ones I sawed yesterday.    Steve

[Magicman]

Is that a variety of pine in the background that's standing? Looks like our Jack Pine up here but 100 times better.  Ryan 

Loblolly Pine

Magicman  Ya can't make sawdust setting on butt showing off new hat ;D ;D ;D

I thought about that, but I was alone and had to prop the camera up.  If I stood up, it cut my head/hat off......maybe a good thing.... ;D :D

[backwoods sawyer]

The sun poked out for a bit while I was loading these logs up. Speeking of sitting on you butt, this tree was a bit over 40" on the butt.

[captain_crunch]

Backwoods Sawyer
Now where did you get that endangered species chunk of wood ;D ;D Now if you don't want to come clean I can understand it :D :D Been from Winston to Coos Bay over 42 lots of times (I work for Watermasters) and we have several Kinitco filters scattered from Strickland Creek to CamasValley and Coqeiel(cant spell for sour you know what) Love the drive over the mountain. I live 9 miles North of Curtin on Territorial so we are almost neighbors
Brian

[Samuel]

No more excuses.  It didn't rain today and was above 50^o.....  

Good lord above 50 F?  That there T-shirt and short weather my friend.  Did you not say it is still hunting season there>  That ugly log could have waited.   :D

[Coalsmoke]

Was 55*F here the other day, sunny and warm,  8) 8)

[Coalsmoke]

Backwards, that's a real nice piece of wood. Stuff that big makes me cringe because I know how much work is involved just to make it fit on the mill, but the boards are soooooooo nice. You'll have to give us a couple of sawing photos when it goes through the works.

[Magicman]

Backwoods,  looks like it took some chainsaw "butchering" to get it down.  You gonna saw it on your LT70?

[fishpharmer]

Backwoods, my mill is made for stuff like that. ;D

I tried to buy two 8 ft oak logs that were on a fellas truck.  It looked like your setup.  He wanted $500 a piece.  I said "Thanks, but, No thanks".  I was glad they were too much for me after I thought about not having a good way to move them around.

[poor farmer/logger]

You guys don't know how spoiled you are with them trees CC.lol.. That is if they'll let you cut them now. Just these last couple of years that they've let us cut some real nice stuff for a change. Otherwise it's had to be a burn before we could get at the good stuff.

Thought they were pine magicman, never heard of that variety before though.

Ryan

[backwoods sawyer]

This is the smallest of the trees straight across the road from the new fire station in Camas Valley. The landowner may take down the other four before he brings in a new house. I am not looking forward to milling the big one.
Anyone in the area got a swing blade?
The butt log is pushing 7' DBH on that one. I will be real glad to see that old tree come down, it is grayer then I am and shedding 7" limbs on my side of the fence right close to my mill.
I milled up the smaller log this afternoon and got over 400 bft out of it, I will mill up the butt log in the morning.
captain_crunch stop in on the way by sometime, or at least slow down and toss a rock my way so I know you went by.

[backwoods sawyer]

 
As you can see the four trres on the right are old and gray, the tree on the left is young and green.



After taking some time to round up the butt log it went on the mill.



The it was rounded up with the mill.



The jacket boards were removed.



Needed a few 4x4s so the whole log did not go to 2x6s.



This is the stack of wood from them two logs.

[Coalsmoke]

Nice pictures, hydraulics saved the day by the looks of it.

[Magicman]

Now, that's what I wanted to see...... 8)

[sigidi]

Nice log haul there backwoods - I'd be like a pig in the proverbial if I got one of them every week

[gdingee]

Been sawing a few afternoons here in New Brunswick with temperatures of -10 C or so. Beautiful sunny afternoons, crisp air, crunchy snow under foot and a fire in the woodstove outside in the yard. Feels good!!