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Kwill

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Milled up some cedar siding for my sawmill shed
Built my own hydraulic splitter
Built my own outdoor wood stove
Built my own log arch
built my own bandsaw sawmill
Built my own atv log arch.
Built my own FEL grapple

terrifictimbersllc

I like the green. 
I like the yellow. 
I like the pink. 
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DJ Hoover, Terrific Timbers LLC,  Mystic CT Woodmizer Million Board Foot Club member. 2019 LT70 Super Wide 55 Yanmar,  LogRite fetching arch, WM BMS250 sharpener/BMT250 setter.  2001 F350 7.3L PSD 6 spd manual ZF 4x4 Crew Cab Long Bed

KYtoolsmith

Been sawing slabs and lumber from one of our walnut trees felled last week. We got six 2" x 26" x 6' slabs. Plus over 600 board feet of 5/4 lumber. All the lumber is clear, no sapwood and 8 to 13" wide!

 


 
 
Timberking 1220, JD 2032 w FEL/forks, 51 Ford 8n, 47 CJ2a, 51 GMC 100, 80 acres of forest farm.
Makin' sawdust!

Banjo picker

@Kwill how big is your winch on the arch?  And does it suit you?  Banjo
Never explain, your friends don't need it, and your enemies won't believe you any way.

WDH

Woodmizer LT40HDD35, John Deere 2155, Kubota M5-111, Kubota L2501, Nyle L53 Dehumidification Kiln, and a passion for all things with leafs, twigs, and bark.  hamsleyhardwood.com

Kwill

Quote from: Banjo picker on November 22, 2019, 09:51:08 AM
@Kwill how big is your winch on the arch?  And does it suit you?  Banjo
2500 lb works good
Built my own hydraulic splitter
Built my own outdoor wood stove
Built my own log arch
built my own bandsaw sawmill
Built my own atv log arch.
Built my own FEL grapple

RAYAR

mobile manual mill (custom build) (mods & additions on-going)
Custom built auto band sharpener (currently under mods)
Husqvarna 50, 61, 254XP (and others)
96 Polaris Sportsman 500
2006 Ranger 4X2 w/cap, manual trans (430,000 Km)

richhiway

 

 
Cut some nice spalted Maple today. The weather was beautiful in upsate NY today. Rain and snow tonight.
Woodmizer LT 40
New Holland 35 hp tractor
Stihl Chainsaws
Ford 340 Backhoe

richhiway

 

 
It was a big old Maple. Made some nice slabs.
Woodmizer LT 40
New Holland 35 hp tractor
Stihl Chainsaws
Ford 340 Backhoe

Crossroads

With the right fulcrum and enough leverage, you can move the world!

2017 LT40 wide, BMS250 and BMT250,036 stihl, 2001 Dodge 3500 5.9 Cummins, l8000 Ford dump truck, hr16 Terex excavator, Valley je 2x24 edger, Gehl ctl65 skid steer, JD350c dozer

WV Sawmiller

   I got out of the woods after letting one nice doe go and had a call from a guy who found me through my website. He is from Texas and visiting relatives about 45 miles from here and said he had a 16' black walnut log about 28-30 inches in diameter. He confirmed I had a chainsaw big enough to cut it and I said I did. Said he'd bring it right down so I moved the mill from the pasture to the lot in front of my house for easier access. When he got here he had 3 logs. The 16' log was over 30" SED and had a nasty 3 way crotch on top. I had told him my tractor was in the shop (So is my 4 wheeler - seems like every I touch lately breaks. I am getting scared to go pee.) When he and his BIL got here turned out I had to use a snatch block and long cable and pull the logs off with my truck. Had to saw through about a 30-32 crotch to cut 4' off the log to get the others off. Finally got to the big one and he ripped his rail on his trailer off driving out from under it. We had an 11'8" log so he decided not to buck it shorter. I moved the mill again to where the log was then bibbyed some off it (but not enough) and we used my Magic Hook to load it on the arms which impressed the heck out of my customers. The loading arms and claw and clamp all worked fine to lift and turn it.The customer said the log weighed 4500 lbs on the scale on their boom truck before I cut the crotch off. I had to gunbarrel it down to get to about 22" and sawed it into 6/4 boards.(Note to self self - 6/4 X 12' X 22" green boards are heavy.) I got 1- trim cut about 1/2" thick and he already had plans for that as soon as he saw it. He makes little wooden crosses about 4" long and 2" wide and showed me one he made of cedar. He figured he'd get a bunch out an 11'8" X 22" board.  When I got done we had 453 bf and had run out of daylight. He left the other logs with me with cutting instructions and will plan on picking the up in 2 days. I doubt the rest combined will be as big as this one log. His BIL wife (His wife's sister) was coming home from WVU Hospital after getting a knee replacement tomorrow  (Seems to be a lot of that going around doesn't it ;)) so he could not get back then. No pictures but I will get some tomorrow or Thursday when I finish the rest. We had a good time and hopefully the weather holds out for sawing tomorrow. Then I will have to figure out charges for my chainsaw work and such. It will be fair to all concerned and so far they seem very happy with their wood.
Howard Green
WM LT35HDG25(2015) , 2011 4WD F150 Ford Lariat PU, Kawasaki 650 ATV, Stihl 440 Chainsaw, homemade logging arch (w/custom built rear log dolly), JD 750 w/4' wide Bushhog brand FEL

Dad always said "You can shear a sheep a bunch of times but you can only skin him once

mtoo747

Cut a nice cherry log today for a friend of mine. 22" x 10'. Heaviest log to date that i've had on the mill! A bit of a challenge to get up there but we got it...first time i've used my ramps. Yielded ~240 bd ft of random width and thickness of lumber. He will stack and sticker it at his house and use it for furniture making. It was a good day!



 

caveman

John and I cleaned up the yard a little yesterday.  About two years ago, after Hurricane Irma, I popped a bunch of dead and partially blown over cedar trees up.  They were piled to deal with later.  Later came yesterday.  We cut them into small logs to saw into 4" and 6" boards, a few were set aside for small live edged slabs and the really small stuff with good heartwood was put on an old trailer to use for bench legs, bed posts and the like.

Anyway, we decided to go ahead an slab all of the cedar that was big enough.  We were surprised to get as much clear wood as we did.  Some was punky (pecky), but all in all, a pretty fair amount of good quality slabs was the result.  They were sorted and stacked by size and quality. 

John and his family are heading to his wife's family's farm in Alabama for the rest of the week.  He will hopefully find us some good, big cedar trees to cut after hunting season while there.  Cedar slabs have treated us well and if they are big and of good quality they sell quickly.


 The near slabs are 12' and the ones stacked are 8-10'.
Caveman

Haleiwa

 

 

 

 White pine for shed siding and a little log for stickers.


 

 

 

 

 

 
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Deese

I've been buying logs, sawing and selling lots of decent syp and cypress lately. 

 

 

 

 

 

 
2004 LT40 Super 51hp w/6' bed extension
Cooks AE4P Edger
Cat Claw sharpener/Dual Tooth Setter
Kubota svl75-2 skidsteer w/grapple, forks, brushcutter
1977 Log Hog Knuckleboom loader/truck

WV Sawmiller

 

 Drizzly start to the day. I trimmed limbs and this big crotch which was SED of yesterdays big walnut butt log. That is a 24" bar on the saw.

About 4 limbs/tops coming out here. A bear to trim and work with. Sampson checking it out.  

I cut the short limb off and made cookies. Cut at the crotch with about 5' left over.  

Pulled this cooked top with my truck as too heavy for my wife's ATV (back up to mine which, along with my tractor is/was in the hospital when this was loaded)

 I trimmed crotch to fit between my blade guide. There is a big crack in the other end preventing me from laying the "leg" perfectly flat which is my preferred technique. I trimmed about 6" off one limb then laid this over about 75-80 degrees to saw parallel to the crack.

 My tractor guru called while I was sawing and brought me my tractor. I could have kissed him. I used it to load the last log and this nasty crotch which still took some work to get placed. I had trimmed it to about 18" narrow way and was still 34-36 inched tall but easy to trim. I finished sawing in the dark so I really can't say how this wood looks yet. I did not get to tally the total as so late but looks like 300-400 bf on my trailer. I'll check tomorrow before customer comes to get it in the early afternoon so good time to chase a wily whitetail in the morning.
Howard Green
WM LT35HDG25(2015) , 2011 4WD F150 Ford Lariat PU, Kawasaki 650 ATV, Stihl 440 Chainsaw, homemade logging arch (w/custom built rear log dolly), JD 750 w/4' wide Bushhog brand FEL

Dad always said "You can shear a sheep a bunch of times but you can only skin him once

richhiway

Nice job.  What ended up being wrong with the tractor?
Woodmizer LT 40
New Holland 35 hp tractor
Stihl Chainsaws
Ford 340 Backhoe

WV Sawmiller

   The invoice says "Rear Differential Ring Gear Bolts Sheared". Was $12 worth of bolts (He described them as about a grade 10 bolt), $62.70 worth of other assorted parts ($42 of which was 5 gallons of hydraulic fluid they changed) and $720 worth of labor ($150 of this was pick up and return on their rollback). 

    I thought it would be a lot longer repair and a lot more expensive. I am very satisfied with the response and cost under the circumstances. He picked it up about 2 weeks ago.
Howard Green
WM LT35HDG25(2015) , 2011 4WD F150 Ford Lariat PU, Kawasaki 650 ATV, Stihl 440 Chainsaw, homemade logging arch (w/custom built rear log dolly), JD 750 w/4' wide Bushhog brand FEL

Dad always said "You can shear a sheep a bunch of times but you can only skin him once

WV Sawmiller

   Here is a picture of yesterday's wood. The board on top on the left was from a big split in the wood. I was able to pretty much contain it in 2 boards. 

The customer wanted a couple of 4X4s for table legs (I'd have gone for 3X3's but his wood and his choice). At the front in the middle is about 10-11 cookies about 10-11 inches in diameter and 6/4 thick. Lots of sap wood and lots of the typical walnut green tint showing up.
Howard Green
WM LT35HDG25(2015) , 2011 4WD F150 Ford Lariat PU, Kawasaki 650 ATV, Stihl 440 Chainsaw, homemade logging arch (w/custom built rear log dolly), JD 750 w/4' wide Bushhog brand FEL

Dad always said "You can shear a sheep a bunch of times but you can only skin him once

longtime lurker

Tomorrow morning's project.



"Little" headlog... About 2200 BF. There's about another 7000BF in two billets from this tree. Poor little guy had to go to make room to fall his grandfather. (I'm guessing not less than 12000 BF in the bigger one).

Its serious hardwood, dense and hard... I went over the weighbridge and that piece is 6¼ ton... 
The quickest way to make a million dollars with a sawmill is to start with two million.

richhiway

Quote from: WV Sawmiller on November 27, 2019, 10:00:41 PM
  The invoice says "Rear Differential Ring Gear Bolts Sheared". Was $12 worth of bolts (He described them as about a grade 10 bolt), $62.70 worth of other assorted parts ($42 of which was 5 gallons of hydraulic fluid they changed) and $720 worth of labor ($150 of this was pick up and return on their rollback).

   I thought it would be a lot longer repair and a lot more expensive. I am very satisfied with the response and cost under the circumstances. He picked it up about 2 weeks ago.
That does seem fair. Luckily you broke the bolts and not the very expensive gears.
Woodmizer LT 40
New Holland 35 hp tractor
Stihl Chainsaws
Ford 340 Backhoe

WV Sawmiller

   As I said I was well pleased. Everything seems to have been well greased and aligned and he even centered and spot welded the blade I had on it as we had discussed and I requested. There is never a good time to have a piece of equipment down but having a good repair guy you trust is like money in the bank IMHO.

Once when I was in the USMC and just returned from a deployment and money was real tight in a new duty station (Beaufort SC) my old truck was barely running and I took it to a local General Tire dealer with a mechanic just knowing, since I am no mechanic, I needed a new carb, fuel pump, injectors, etc. I left it with him with strict instructions not to repair till he called with an estimate. That afternoon he called and said my truck was ready and I got excited and reminded him nobody called for approval to make any repairs. He told me it was only $3 as it was only a loose carb and they tightened it. They checked other things but that was it. From then on they did all my mechanic work, I got tires and referred others to him. He could have taken advantage of me but he did not.
Howard Green
WM LT35HDG25(2015) , 2011 4WD F150 Ford Lariat PU, Kawasaki 650 ATV, Stihl 440 Chainsaw, homemade logging arch (w/custom built rear log dolly), JD 750 w/4' wide Bushhog brand FEL

Dad always said "You can shear a sheep a bunch of times but you can only skin him once

Stephen1

Here is the Custom Walnut log I sawed for a customer on Friday.
In 8 years of custom sawing buisness it is only the first high value log being sawn into lumber, no Live edge. I did lots of reading and studying on the FF before I put it on the mill
I missed the pictures of the actuall 10/4 lumber I pulled off. 18" wide. I also pulled a whack  6/4 lumber/. It was interesting sawing all the sapwood off. Even as people dropped in to buy some wood, they were all amazed at no "live Edge" 
I replied that the craze is dying and people are coming to thier senses, the straight edge 10/4 tables he will make will be in style for ever.
he did want to dry it yet, not in his budget this year. He is going to air dry it in his garage and bring it back next fall for me to dry.


 

 

 
 

 

 
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WV Sawmiller

   Well done. In all honesty I would rather not saw somebody else's high value log like that. The one I sawed Tuesday was as big or bigger than that with most of the lumber 22-23 inches wide. I find it very nerve wracking thinking I could screw up a piece of wood like that that I know I could never replace. I don't mind sawing my own as then it is on me but somebody else's ...
Howard Green
WM LT35HDG25(2015) , 2011 4WD F150 Ford Lariat PU, Kawasaki 650 ATV, Stihl 440 Chainsaw, homemade logging arch (w/custom built rear log dolly), JD 750 w/4' wide Bushhog brand FEL

Dad always said "You can shear a sheep a bunch of times but you can only skin him once

Bruno of NH

I agree with you Howard
That's one of the reason I saw my own logs mostly.
If someone doesn't like it they don't have to buy it.
If I own the logs 
Lt 40 wide with 38hp gas and command controls , F350 4x4 dump and lot of contracting tools

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