A day cutting wood

[Peter Drouin]

5500 hrs on it not bad.


 

 

 
All better.

Sometimes you have to tilt to fit.


 
To long on one end. ;)

[Bruno of NH]

Is that for the up/down motor?
They came and got my tractor yesterday for some warranty work
They say I will have it back tomorrow. 
I'm not buying it got my logger friend coming with his log truck to load the deck in the morning.

[Magicman]

Those are the power feed sprockets that pull/push against the chain.  I am on at least my third set.  

I love that Cat's tilting ability Peter.  Thankfully that is what is working with me now.  That and the telescoping boom are life savers.

[Bruno of NH]

Put on a nice 24" x 12'long white pine today.
Milled out some 18" wide boards and some nice side lumber.

 

 

 

 

 

[caveman]

John and I were planning to plane some longleaf pine today and glue up a table top but we may have a buyer after sending a picture of the planed wood.
Anyway, we set the pitch a week or so ago and got around to planing it today.  We'll see if it sells.  If not, we'll glue up a table top.

 

 

[Southside]

Dang - that is purdy...How big of a log did that come out of?

[caveman]

Southside, these were 2"x 12" 's.  We sawed them quite a while ago and these are some of 30-40 2x8 - 2 x 12's we sawed that day.  I think the logs were 18-20" in diameter.  There is a picture somewhere of my hand on a longleaf stump with a lightening strike scar (the stump, not my hand).  If you look carefully at the board on the left in the top picture, you will see the damage from that strike.

John and I spent a weekend a few summers ago cutting, loading, hauling and unloading about 25 of these longleaf pines from a lot that was to be a home site.  These trees were 100-125 years old.

The first can of planer shavings was taken to my daughter's hog pen for bedding but we bagged the rest to use as fire starter and to make our trucks smell good.  

[Southside]

I remember that photo, sure is some nice lumber. 

[Peter Drouin]

I did not cut wood today, Had to scale a load of Hemlock. Yesterday was R Oak.


 

 
I do spread them out to scale.


 

 
This is what Hemlock should look like, cleen no shake.


 Some Oak.


 
Custome cutting too'
18" W Pine, some random stuff too.


 


  
Have truck loads of chips going out.


 

But I do have to get on the stick. A lot of lumber to replace that was sold the last few weeks.


 


All in all a good day.
More logs coming this week. [Winter cut] is the best.

[Bruno of NH]

Looking good Sir
Nice logs
Where are the chips going ?
I hear the softwood pulp is going to start picking up.
One mill in Maine is taking it for a new process making cardboard.

[Peter Drouin]

Burlin power plant.
franken-smiley

[Peter Drouin]

Dog days of summer.
Drying wood sending out timber frames.


 

 

 

 

[Nebraska]

Looks warm there too, only thing missing is the dog..

[Bandmill Bandit]

 

 
Another happy customer! Cut these timbers and lumber (pics below) last July and they just finished the final touches to this structure on the week end. Will be a cobble stone floor as well



 

  

[Bruno of NH]

How's the Lull working out ?

[WDH]

Peter,

What would a pine 10 x 10 x 10 pine beam green off the sawmill be worth?

[Peter Drouin]

Peter,

What would a pine 10 x 10 x 10 pine beam green off the sawmill be worth?

$ 80,00    I get $150 a bf up to 16' Then the price goes up. I give .35 a bf for W Pine here.
How are things with you WDH? are you enjoying your retirement?

[WDH]

Yes Sir.  Working harder now than ever.  This sawmilling business keeps one busy.  $1.50 sounds good. 

[Bandmill Bandit]

Peter,

What would a pine 10 x 10 x 10 pine beam green off the sawmill be worth?

In this Country that timber would be $265CDN FOB my yard, so about 200 ish USD. 

[Bandmill Bandit]

Todays Milling is a  Labor of Love that was a result of several people coming together to help a school for first nations junior and senior high school kids with the wood shop classes in their schools new shop.

The kids love the shop and the potential but the budget for material is so minimal that students need to pay half the cost of the wood and material for the projects they want to build. For most of the kids 25 bucks might as well be a million.

This tree was ordered removed by the city. It was located on the edge of the lot of the school's Principal and her husband Larry, about 6 feet from the road.

While Larry was falling it, I stopped and asked what they were going to do with it. He said "fire wood"! I said there is a lot of good lumber in that tree.

He said yea but I don't need any lumber. Gail, his wife and the schools principal, asked what it would cost to mill it. I asked her who's paying? She said we could really use it for the school shop and I said "In that case I will mill it for free!"

The link will take you to the schools web site and i will add more pictures as soon as I figure out how to capture them from a video stream.
https://www.mamawiatosketan.ca/  

Larry dropping the tree.



Milling in progress.


 

 

       



  

We got just under 600BF and the young man helping me is the schools industrial arts teacher. He asked me if I would mill logs for the school if he brought them to me.

I told him to find some good logs and get them to the school and I would help him do a class on "forest to home" for the classes he teaches Including a couple of classes of milling the logs on the schools site. He was very excited and happy and accepted my offer enthusiastically with the principles blessing as she was standing right there when we talked about it.

Jeff, Mods, I am thinking this may turn into a thread that will warrant its own space. Please monitor and let me know if you think it should get moved. Thanks

[Peter Drouin]

Always good to help the kids and the poor.
Good job. 8) 8) 8)

[Peter Drouin]

Fun today, 0° with sun, put up a tent, mill head over the hydro box, turn on the space heater for 30 min later the cat fired up hydro works like it's 40°

Cutting 18- 9"x9"x14'  50--4"x8"x14'  Had my 5th TT load of Hemlock comes in at 3,30 have it all scaled.
Put it away in the morning. Make room for more.
I love mechanize loggers. ;)
Had a customer who said it will get colder tonight.  
Have the lull plug in too.
I would have put up some pix, but I'm having trouble with the kodack.
You all stay warm out there.
:new_year:
  

[47sawdust]

Peter,
 That hemlock is some nice.
 Squeaky cold here in Bernie land.

[PAmizerman]

Cold here too. Around 10° today.
My logs are currently stalled out. Loggers tell me it's been to windy to cut.
My log yard is empty and the orders keep piling up. I keep trying to catch you Peter.
22 triaxle loads for me last year. What's your average for a year?

[moodnacreek]

Down here I only had one logger who cut logs like that, the right way. He had to retire early due to severe lime disease. The others are tree removable people who mostly butcher everything. I pay accordingly but running a chainsaw is not what I am supposed to be doing.