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Sawmills and Milling / Re: Just another day in Paradi...

Last post by melezefarmer - Today at 11:20:04 AM

Business has been really slow the last couple of months. Tons of backyard sawmills have popped up around me. They are basically sawing just to have beer money.

Things are picking back up again here in Canadaland. However, hemlock logs prices are making me question if I should just switch to milling white pine. I wouldn't have to deal with shake and it certainly cuts faster than hemlock.

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Timber Framing/Log construction / Re: have question about timber...

Last post by platinumphoenix - Today at 10:54:44 AM

Ok thank you. Should I put in dry gravel after I've done that?

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Sawmills and Milling / Re: Woodland Mills HM126 Woodl...

Last post by Menagerie-Manor - Today at 10:50:11 AM

Hi folks.  I am looking at purchasing the Woodland Mills HM126 Woodlander.  Wondering if anyone has any experience with this, or other Woodland Mills, trailer mounted band saw mills.  I am leery about whether it is stable enough on the 4 trailer jacks and whether there is any sway at all when sawing a 500 lb log.  Thanks.  Vioreder.

Lot of good info to be found here.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/woodlandmills

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Sawmills and Milling / Re: Did something dumb today.

Last post by SawyerTed - Today at 10:30:20 AM

This is an example of poor planning.  Dumb...

The hopping Johnny and plate compactor were already rented today. 

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Sawmills and Milling / Re: Sawing fir

Last post by SwampDonkey - Today at 10:08:58 AM

Spruce have a pulvinus on the end of the needle to attach, balsam fir don't. Spruce needles are square edged and sharp pointed, more so in red spruce or black. Sometimes Amabilis fir is called balsam out west. Balsam is more northward. Balsam fir needles generally lay flat if shaded, but in full sun they tend to spiral up the stem and can appear spruce like when not up close.

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General Board / What are Osage good size (12"+...

Last post by Sedgehammer - Today at 10:03:25 AM

How do. Might have access to some. Just wondering what the going rate is in the Oklahoma n surrounding areas

Please move thread if it fits better elsewhere

Thanks

#7

General Board / Re: Post office troubles.

Last post by Larry - Today at 09:47:00 AM

What's a check? Oh, I think I know, that's one of those paper things used by really old people!

My bank pays all my bills, mostly some kind of electronic thing. The monthly bills are automatic and I don't do anything (except deposit $$$$'s). I think as a last resort they send out a snail mail check. Been doing that for about four years and yet to have any problems. Cost is way less than what stamps would cost me.

Incoming mail is a different story. Terrible and I'll fire off a documented letter to my US Representative. That really gets the post office excited and mail will get better for a short time.

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Forestry and Logging / Re: Daily Fabrication Thread

Last post by wudshp - Today at 09:37:47 AM

This brought back lots of good memories.  I spent a couple weeks in the summer with grandpa and grandma.  He moved houses, sold pig feed,  kept a few beef cows and some pigs.  He also survived the depression.  I wanted to drive the riding mower but he had other jobs first.  He set me up on an anvil with a oak cask of bent nails and showed me how to straighten them.  I went at it with the hope of simplicity riding mower glory.  It took me a couple days on and off because we did lots of chores with him.  I struggled to stay with it but finally finished the cask.  Showed him what I did.  Got a nod and he walked over to another one of his lean to sheds and brought out another cask and I saw the were still a bunch more waiting in the wings.  That was the end of the highly motivated part.  I kept at it but not as fast.  He did let me drive the mower.  He had rigged up a vacuum pickup on a big plywood trailer and we fed the cows with the grass. Thanks for the reminder and smile. 

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General Board / Re: Post office troubles.

Last post by Ron Wenrich - Today at 09:04:54 AM

We had one check that was lost in the mail.  It was sent to Dallas, and was mailed in out local Post Office, not in a drop box.  They tell you not to send checks in those boxes.  They're the ones that are having problems with theft.  No one tried to cash the check, and it may have been lost at the company. 

We had to put a stop payment on that check.  It was to pay off a credit card.  The card company was notified, and they still charged me a late fee and interest.  I no longer use their card.

The local postal service is good.  If something doesn't fit in the box, they bring it back our lane and to our door.  The mailman will have a good chat with us, if we're around.  I've never had smashed by the local PO.  UPS and USPS have been working together since 2012.  UPS will give packages to USPS for delivery.  So, damages might not be the PO fault. 

I'd rather have something come through the postal service than through FedEx.  Sometimes they marked our shipment as delivered, when it wasn't. 

The last UPS shipment was smashed, and they had a new guy that couldn't find us and the local UPS office changed our address that was on the box. 

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Forestry and Logging / Re: Daily Fabrication Thread

Last post by Tom K - Today at 08:49:56 AM

It is amazing what an old bucket of nails did for all of us. 

Yup, sure is. It's also the reason I don't have a rusty bucket of nails sitting around now 

I know I'm a little younger than some of ya'll, but I have similar memories. While we weren't poor when I was growing up we weren't that far from it. My parents bought their first house in '88 when I was 7 years old. It was an old farm house with a big old barn that needed some love. My dad spent a whole summer tearing down the rougher part and rebuilding the better part.....yup, many buckets of nails were saved and re-used. 

A couple years later he put a new roof on the house. I remember begging him to let me get up on the 2 story roof to help, he finally gave in and let me help as long as I stayed near the valleys. I'm pretty sure some of those roofing nails were used as well.....

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