Whatcha Sawin' 2022 ??

[stanwelch]

Sorry to hear about Ms Pat, Magic. I pray she has a quick and pain free recovery. 

[barbender]

Sorry to hear that, Magic. Get well soon, Pat! 

[Magicman]

Thanks Guys.  The soonest Ortho appt that she could get is Thursday and since I have an appt Monday, there will not be any 236 mile away sawing next week.  I also have an appt on the 26th, so I'll reschedule my sawing to begin on the 27th. 

My customer will not be pleased, but it is what it is.

[Andries]

One of the hallmarks of a pro: clearly defined terms and boundaries.
Well done MM, you have your priorities well lined up. 👌

[caveman]

I hope that PatD has a speedy recovery.  I am also glad that she did not break her hip or femur.  I was glad to finally meet you and her in person at Jake's back in April.  It is good to have family members you can count on when you need them.

Tell them to have all of the logs clean, staged and extra help available when you get back to the sand pit, so they can watch the magic happen on the sawmill.  That's about one condo a day, right?

I saw my mother walk into a closed sliding glass door that she thought was open about three years ago.  I tried to get to her as she was falling but I was not quick enough to catch her.  She ended up breaking her femur and had to have a revision on an already replaced hip.  She is still on a walker from that incident and still has a lot of pain.

Don P was writing the truth about age and gravity.

[richhiway]

Best wishes for a swift recovery. Take Care!

[WDH]

Oh No!  Take good care of her, Sir. 

[GAB]

MM:
Like others, I wish your wife a speedy and painless recovery.
Please tell her the next time she wants to test gravity with a fragile object to use an egg.
Hope your DR appointment is nothing serious.
GAB

[Buck69]

MM,Thoughts and prayers for a full and speedy recovery. 

[Sixacresand]

MM, Praying that all is going well with the doctors and the healing process for Pat.

[Magicman]

Mr. Leatherman and I made some modifications to PatD's cast and removed some sharp bumps.  It's much better now.

Hope your DR appointment is nothing serious.

Gerald, I can now pee over tall  short buildings.  :

[Don P]

I used to be able to knock down hickory nuts  :

This is some walnut sapwood turning what I call blue, it lasts for an hour or two, about as long as the green in heartwood, its probably the same pigment.


 


This was the top crotch from the log the other day. We used the CSM with a 6' bar. The chunk here was close to square, this face was noodled which is faster but clogs easy. The next pass was regular, then a noodle pass. But look at that figure, highly valuable walnut slabs  ;D.




The slab that DB was chainsawing off the main log in the pic the other day actually had a nice mantle in it, or really 2, it is 12' long and cleaned up at 5" thick with one live edge and some decent heart on top.

[caveman]

John and I started the morning off impersonating electricians, wiring up dust collectors, jointers and planers.  We jointed and planed a pallet of live oak that will be used for flooring.  After lunch, we cut a few trees that belonged to a neighbor.  He thought he had a hickory, which turned out to be a live oak.  We sawed it into 14' slabs, 2.75" thick, 20" small end, 26" big end.  They turned out nice.


 

 

[WV Sawmiller]

 

I returned at 7 am to this site 14 miles away this morning. This is the 3rd weekend starting in July that I have sawed here. You can see the fog in the picture. It stayed around till around 10-11 am then the sun broke through. I think there were around 25 logs all total left. We figured it was a 2 day job but the helpers finally learned their jobs and kept a log on the arms and did pretty good removing the finished boards as I cased them. We finished around 5:30 pm with a tally of 1461 bf. Nearly all RO, a maple sneaked in and a few WO. Mostly 4/4 and a few LE 8/4 and some 2X6's.


 

 

A little over 6K bf for this client. We are all glad it is done and I enjoyed working with and for them. The client included a $100 tip each trip for extra effort and things I don't charge for such as stickers and helped carry  heavy pieces when they needed help.

 While I was sawing another customer came and got a couple hundred dollars worth of 3X8X12s at my house and my sharpener guru came and picked up 15 bands for sharpening.

 I got a call from a guy up the road who wants me to saw 145 crib blocks that are 30" long and 6" square out of assorted hardwood. He wanted them resawed into 1/2" "shingles" is the best way I  can describe his plan. I confirmed I can do the work but will be an hourly rate. I guess the time required is largely going to be determined by how fast the can load and remove the pieces. We will see if this comes to pass or not.

[Larry]

Loaded up this 40" X 16' 7,200 pound red oak log on the sawmill yesterday. My forklift will only lift 5,500 pounds and my sawmills max size is 36" diameter.  I never was good with details.

Took about half a hour to trim it down with the chainsaw so I can get through it.  Made a pass without a band to insure I wouldn't hang up.  Plan was to saw it this morning but got busy.  Doyle says I should get 900 board foot.
 
My job is to cut 1 X 12's and two live edge slabs out of the center. Another craftsman will make a 5' X 16' table to set next to a indoor swimming pool.

[kelLOGg]

A really ugly, distorted, 32" "diameter" rotted white oak with termites - but it yielded really nice slabs. It wasn't round so by YH's standards it wasn't even a log and it was a bear to roll. While positioning it for the opening face, the winch stalled (2500 lb pull Superwinch) because the flat of the "log" was against the squaring arms. I had to assist the winch for a few seconds with a cant hook. Sorry. no pics of the process because I (and a friend) were too busy with the tasks at hand. We sawed 2" and 3" live edge slabs 8' long and were able to minimize the large pith crack to 1 board with a second one showing a small crack. We loaded the slabs onto my trailer via my push, roller and pull mechanisms. Again, no pics of the process but, at least, I have pics of the slabs so it did happen.;) The rot and termites were superficial, and we hit no metal.




 

 

 

[WDH]

Kyle,

Pretty hard to confuse hickory and live oak, but then again, sometimes I cannot even tell if the person at the grocery store is a man or a woman . 

[Don P]

I've been googling and reading a little on that blue in walnut sapwood. I had always thought that when walnut is steamed the color was moving from heartwood to sapwood. Apparently, the heat is bringing the color already there out. I don't have the capability to create 190° saturated steam (and it needs to be done green from the saw) but that would be an interesting experiment with some all sap boards. Ours was a fast grown tree and had about 4" of sapwood which I recovered as mostly white 4/4 boards for sheathing or whatever low use. Being jacket boards they are mostly high grade clears, just white. If "brown" they would triple in value.

Oh, if your batter is too alkaline or has aluminum in the baking powder, the walnuts and some other nuts in your muffins will make blue or green streaks... cool .

[caveman]

Kyle,

Pretty hard to confuse hickory and live oak, but then again, sometimes I cannot even tell if the person at the grocery store is a man or a woman .

I agree.  Tree that we cut the logs from had been down over a year.  The bark indicated live oak.  When I started bucking it with the chainsaw it had the "vinegary" live oak smell.  I trashed a blade and a wheel belt due to throwing the blade at the beginning of the cut because I had things a bit slippery with too much lube.  I was running the lube at about wide open to keep the blade clean, cool and tight.  Live oak is a different animal.  I saw it slower than anything else.  On those wide slabs, the blade was only advancing about 1/2" per revolution, but they sawed flat.
I know what you mean about the gender confusion.  There seems to be quite a bit of that with today's youth.  "Girls will be boys and boys will be girls
It's a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world, except for Lola
La-la-la-la Lola" Kinks

[Larry]

Don't think its supposed to work this way.






Adds a little excitement to a morning at the sawmill. :D

[TimGA]

    And that's heavy, now to not break or bend anything. What are the chances of that falling in that limb rot ?    

[cutterboy]

 :D :D :D  Larry, I'm sorry about laughing at your misfortune but that is funny. :D :D :D

How did you get it off?

[Magicman]

I zoomed in on that knot hole when you pictured the log in Reply #1314, and wondered how far the hollow went.  Obviously you found out.  

[WDH]

He is probably still out there trying to get it off . 

[bigblockyeti]

Loaded up this 40" X 16' 7,200 pound red oak log on the sawmill yesterday. My forklift will only lift 5,500 pounds and my sawmills max size is 36" diameter.  I never was good with details.

Looks like that log gave birth to a sawmill!