Picked up my mill yesterday!

[WoodenHead]

Although I am along a busy route, I am tucked in about 1500 ft. in the woods on my property (my driveway is exactly half a mile long).  So I'm not too worried about nosey inspectors 

I do like the suggestion of milling my own shed, even if it is only part of it.  I was thinking about pine post and beam with purchased trusses designed for the span.  The only issue I see is the spans that I would like.  Since I will have 16 foot material coming off the mill, I figured 20 ft openings would be wise.  What size of pine beams/posts would I need for that kind of span?

I buy steel regularly so I can get that for a reasonable price in lengths up to 48 ft (up to 60ft for I-beam).  Of course steel is still more expensive than wood.  And I would like to maximize the use of the mill.  I'm not sure I have enough experience with post and beam construction.

Here's a quick sketch of what I had in mind:

[whitepe]

Newbee   congrats on the new LT28 and diesel too even better.   Hmmm  Maybe it's time to consider a trade-up of my LT15.  Does WM do trade ins?   Anyway I can remember picking
up my LT15 back in 2002.   Took a day off work to drive to Indy to get it and stopped at the beef house restaurant on I-74 near lllinois/Indiana border for dinner that night. I always
wished I had a few extra bucks back then to get the trailer option but it was not to be.   Good luck with trying to keep the wife happy by not having any piles of logs/lumber/sawdust laying around.
I failed miserably in that respect except for the sawdust which I do get picked up.  I tell people that I bought a sawmill and ever since then logs have been falling from the sky.
For years now I have to listen to my wife harass me with her favorite saying.  Got Wood?   in the theme of the Got Milk?  commercials.    I never could get my wife interested
in doing much with the sawmill.  She grumbles if I ask her to help whenever I saw a log.   Maybe I should have picked up a few head of Holsteins a while back because when
I visited Brother Noble back in 2003 she rolled up her sleeves and helped Brother Noble's Mom with the milking while Brother Noble was showing me around his farm to look
at the equipment.   

[zopi]

Yeah, wm does trade ins, but you will be better off to sell on the open market...plus if you do a trade in you lose your two percent repeat offen.....err....customer discount...
A nice lady told me that awhile back..
Tom, I did not notice you were in joisey...bloody tax jockeys there...we need fewer nosy bureauRats....got a few here...
You can certainly build portable....about to build some "portable" here too, of course, how you would move a six or eight ton timber frame structure..I dunno....
They did not say, easily portable.

[Slingshot]

     But of course a 6 or 8 ton timber frame structure sitting on skids so it can be hooked up
to a bull dozer and scooted around is not likely to be blown over in a little windstorm. :D :D



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[sparky1]

we have the same crappy taxes here in wisconsin.. hard enough to afford the mortgage, let alone the taxes (which are already at 4grand a year) that keep climbing! yet our country is still trillions in the hole... It blows my mind!!