I have the Wood-Mizer all prepped to go on a journey. I'm just waiting for a slot in the weather where I can get it the 187 miles to the U.P. and saw up the cedar and Tamarack that it stacked on my property. It was not running right the last I tried to use it. Had to pull the choke to keep it running. I trouble shot it to being the old gas line and bulb. So, the 1986 wood-mizer lt30 has a new tank fittings and fuel line. This is a solo journey.
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Furby sent me these photos yesterday. I gave him some cedar and this is what is left on the ground for me to get sawed. He hauled home a trailer and truck load. That tamarack is going to be a handful for just me and a manual mill.
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That looks like a good whack, how long you staying?
Dat DanG Furby shoulda stayed and been the tailgunner for you. :D
As long as possible! I'll take my crossbow too. Its suppose to snow Wednesday but be decent Thursday. (50) so I'll probably go up Wednesday. I'm just going to cant the cedar and I'm not sure about the tamarack.
I tried to get him but hes like a shrew.
Pretty logs. Is your tractor up there or other handling equipment? Good luck on the sawing and the hunting. Stay safe.
Quad with a winch is up there. That's it. My tractor doesn't have any real log handling abilities.
Be careful my friend, do you have cell service up their?
Where the logs are on my property there is just enough signal to use the phone to make calls or text.
I wish you all the best of luck Jeff and above all else enjoy your time there!
It's always nice sawing for yourself.
Sounds like some fried fish is in order ;D.
Off to the land of ice and snow.
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Safe travels stay warm and have fun
Travel and be safe!
Quote from: Jeff on October 17, 2018, 09:37:37 AM
Off to the land of ice and snow.
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It sounds like a good time. BTW, the Onan is alive and ready to be transplanted on my LT30. Did you have any clearance issues by the starter with the engine lifting mechanism? looks like it's going to be close.
Going to saw. - YouTube (https://youtu.be/wh4dIYgt8cw)
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Don't know what the wood will look like but you sure have some pretty surroundings to be working in. Our leaves here look like they are going to fall before they ever turn colors this year. We even have a street festival (Railroad Days) this weekend with special trains coming along the New River Valley and stop to let people take pictures of the foliage. Looks like I need to send them your way.
Don't get so tied up sawing you forget about that crossbow too. I'd love to see a picture of a big deer hanging on one of those pretty red maples. Take care.
Glad to see that I'm not the only one to pull an orange sawmill with a red truck.
1 get a deer
2 get the logs sawn
And above all else, have a good time!
Thats a nice pile of logs.....If you haven't milled in a while and have no grunts, you are gonna find muscles you haven't spoken to in a while....The kind that can make you walk funny..... ;D ;D
Thats the first fall folage that I have seen that looks nice. Trees here are just like Howard's ... leaves falling off without changing color. Banjo
Nippy!
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Going sawing to da U.P. - YouTube (https://youtu.be/lirX_3aGc8g)
Enjoyed the videos. When you get back home, show some more of that log trailer from your first post. Is that arch attached to the trailer or is that a Logrite loaded on it. Interesting
That's a furby rig. Propane tank hauler.
I made two videos of how I wa loading logs. I made two because I thought the first one didnt record. I'll upload the second on too, as it was a bigger log. Fist I need to take a break and go fill my blade lube tank. I'm getting pretty sore, but i may not get anudder day like this one.
Loading a log. - YouTube (https://youtu.be/WkEID8ZK7t8)
Jeff here in saskatchewan we have had 65 to 72 degree weather the last 3 days and the forecast is the same for the extt week or 2 hope it holds. Its coming your way.
8) Ifins they load that easy, you don't need no stinkin hydraulics. 8)
Of course, I say that while using hydraulics.
The slab pile is way bigger than the lumber. Lots of dry rot.
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Uploading logs two - YouTube (https://youtu.be/69eUm4y9YCc)
Looks like a great day in the woods. I'm jealous, as I sit in the office wishing my life away, lol.
I also saw a lot of poor wood that I haul out. At 50+ yrs, I have realized that my good wood is declining and as it dies and falls, that is when I haul it out to saw. :-\
Thanks for sharing your time with us.
This mornings work before getting rained out just now. Its settled in for the day so I guess I can go back to the cabin, take a ed solo cup shower, sit down and probably not be able to move the rest of the day. :D
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You got one of those critters hanging in the shed tonight Jeff?
Of course I've herd of deer. Good pic Jeff. Looks like you were close.
Got the cedar all sawn. Happy happy.
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No bucks spotted yet.
Looks like the mill is cutting well. Did you get any of that tamarack sawdust between your fingers? :-\
I dont understand. Color me dense. ;)
I may try and get some more useable lumber out of the tamarack if tammy let's me stay a few more days.
Any time I've sawn tamarack I've gotten nasty fine sawdust splinters between my fingers.
I think I've avoided it because this is all a bit punky on the outside.
Did you have any fried fish?
Of course! Lake Perch.
I figured as much :). I am jealous.
How's that new power plant working on the Woodmizer Jeff?
Running good. Don't miss the onan even a little bit.
Good for you. Glad you are able to get some good use outta that machine again. What kind of project you got in mind for those cedar cants your sawing?
Looks like lots of PEACE!! Good place to setup camp for a month! 8)
Sawing and seeing deer. What a life!!
No real plans on the cedar. The logs just needed to be sawn and not spend another u.p. winter on the ground. I'll haul them home and find a use for them.
I'm glad I learned my lesson earlier this year and always disengage the saw now when crossing behind it, which is every cut up here this happened after reengaging and starting towards the cut, not even to it. I'm still using bands that came with the mill.
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I always tell people, customers or whoever else, to stay away from that side of the mill and I show them pictures like these so they understand why. Being in the blades way could ruin your day.
Quote from: Jeff on October 23, 2018, 12:41:24 PM
I'm glad I learned my lesson earlier this year and always disengage the saw now when crossing behind it, which is every cut up here this happened after reengaging and starting towards the cut, not even to it. I'm still using bands that came with the mill.
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I've experienced that too.Happens enough that its more than a coincidence....My Ukrainian engineering skills tells be the blade gets a workout when spooling up to speed. ;D
My Mill which is a 93 has clearance issues with my larger alternator, I had to bend a little steel.
My buddy @Harold (http://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?action=profile;u=19) came up to pick up a quad he bought and to haul all my cedar back home for me. There was 47 cedar logs. 6x6s, 8x8s, 4x6s and a couple 4x4s.
Today I should finish up the tamarack which has been a lot of work for not much return.
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Jeff, some of that load looks like posts for your infamous Logrite style fencing. ;D ;D
How did that cedar saw out? I can have a butt that measure out 10 inches and by the time I get into sound wood,I have a hard time getting a 4x4. Can cut a bunch of one inch boards. :D
I arrived back home with mill in tow at 8:30 this morning after loading and sawing and swamping 91 logs. 45 cedar and 46 tamarack. Got rid of all the half rotten tamarack slabwood after meeting a new friend that stopped by to inquire. An elderly yooper finlander logger, sawmiller and great lakes sailor. Hes a colorful man with a smoking blue vocabulary and we got along just fine. He lost his wife 3 months ago.
Here is the last pics I took. One was a neat pitch pocket in the tamarack.
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Ray, the cedar was still pretty good. Just a few had some dryrot.
That tamarack sure is fuzzy, looks like it tears more than cuts. Is it like that when its fresh cut too?
That was some of the rotten stuff.
Glad you made it back safe, Jeff.
Can we assume that there was no swimming in Northern Lake Huron this trip? :(
You assume correctly. I had to settle for red solo cup showers. There is a tub in the cabin and a septic tank, but we have to carry in water. I fill a half a five gallon pail with water and a big pot we have on the stove. Heat the pot to boiling and poor it in the half a pail of colw water and it makes it just right. Set the pail in the tub and use the plastic cup to take a shower. It works.
Quote from: Jeff on October 27, 2018, 07:47:36 AM
You assume correctly. I had to settle for red solo cup showers. There is a tub in the cabin and a septic tank, but we have to carry in water. I fill a half a five gallon pail with water and a big pot we have on the stove. Heat the pot to boiling and poor it in the half a pail of colw water and it makes it just right. Set the pail in the tub and use the plastic cup to take a shower. It works.
I guess after wrasseling alla them boards/beams, swinging a solo cup mabey 1500 times per shower is a cakewalk :D :D :D
That's how I wash up when I'm hunting out west, too.
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Quote from: Jeff on October 27, 2018, 07:47:36 AM
You assume correctly. I had to settle for red solo cup showers. There is a tub in the cabin and a septic tank, but we have to carry in water. I fill a half a five gallon pail with water and a big pot we have on the stove. Heat the pot to boiling and poor it in the half a pail of colw water and it makes it just right. Set the pail in the tub and use the plastic cup to take a shower. It works.
I guess after wrasseling alla them boards/beams, swinging a solo cup mabey 1500 times per shower is a cakewalk :D :D :D
Percy:
In 5 gallons of water there are only 640 ounces.
1500 times would mean a mighty small Solo cup - I've never seen one that small.
Me thinks you got the decimal in the wrong place.
Just saying,
Gerald
P.S. do you still have your thick and thin banner over your entrance gate.
I wish I'd of taken a picture of that.
Quote from: GAB on October 27, 2018, 01:03:06 PM
Percy:
In 5 gallons of water there are only 640 ounces.
1500 times would mean a mighty small Solo cup - I've never seen one that small.
Me thinks you got the decimal in the wrong place.
Just saying,
Gerald
P.S. do you still have your thick and thin banner over your entrance gate.
I wish I'd of taken a picture of that.
Well GAB, its like this.....First, he has to get wet....250 cups
Then lather up and shampoo.....nuther 150 to work the "dry" spots..
THEN rinsing soap/lather from hair, beard, armpits, nether regions and ears ...maybe 600....see we are at 1000 already...Id go on but the mental images I would create could be disturbing to some.... :D :D :D :D
Ya, the gate sign is still there...Made outta WRC....in 2005...Ill get you a pic if you like...
Yup, there are 40 16oz cup fills. It only takes about 4 to get wet, leaving plenty left to rinse after the sudzin.
Exactly the same method. 2/3 of a 5 gal pail of water carried from wherever, 1/3 of that heated to boil in a pot on the camp stove or gas grill, and pour back into the bucket with the rest, small pot or can or whatever for a dipper, no excuse not to have a luxurious shower wherever. And you don't have to be standing in the tub either :o :o :o, but that works too.
Quote from: terrifictimbersllc on October 27, 2018, 05:20:11 PM
no excuse not to have a luxurious shower wherever.
Quote from: Jeff on October 27, 2018, 02:33:28 PM
Yup, there are 40 16oz cup fills. It only takes about 4 to get wet, leaving plenty left to rinse after the sudzin.
I will admit my exaggeration skills are as messed up as my math skills......and perhaps Im a Preema Donna but Im definitely missing the luxuirous part of that shower description :D :D
Go a week without and I think you'll begin to see the luxury.
Percy,I knew what you meant. ;D
Quote from: LeeB on October 28, 2018, 05:47:18 AM
Go a week without and I think you'll begin to see the luxury.
:D :D :D you have a way of explaining things.....Thanks :D :D :D :D :D
I hope the cabin was well heated when you were solo cupping it. So did the old logger take the slabs off your hands? And now all your logs up there are done milled? So I take it you'll break them down further at home as you need? I'm impressed you're moving all that material by hand!
Yes, the cabin is warm and comfortable. The only inconvenience is the water not being piped in, but honestly it isn't that big a deal unless your a wife. :D
All the logs are sawn that were piled on my property and all the cedar hauled home. There is probably 1000ft of tamarack in cant form still up there. Not sure what to do with that yet. The cedar will be resawn down here. Wish I had a gang saw and a 4 sided planer, id make paneling out of it.
Gary the old logger is quite the fellow. Is wife died suddenly about 3 months ago and I'm sure he just doesn't know what to do with himself. He took me over to his House/cabin to show it to me. His children want himn to go to Florida for the winter. He doesn't want to go. He promised them he would go try it for a month. That is where the slab would comes in. He was looking for some kindling to have on hand back as his place, because he has full intentions on "bugging out" on them at the end of the month to come home to the U.P. :) His wife Geraldine was a painter and he showed me several of her paintings with great pride, and we discussed whether a rose of sharon would survive planted near the house as she had always wanted one. Gary wears a brace on one leg, as he had a form of polio as a youngster. He gets around well enough to have worked as a handfeller in the woods of the U.P. on the shores of Lake superior as well as Drummond Island. He also was a sawmill hand and worked on the freighters. Like I said, his vocabulary is colorful and that's certainly why. I'm sure people that see me on here think I am a prude due to the rules we have in place, but I also spent my working life up until 2005 in very similar working environments, so its something I know very well. I also know how to turn mine off. Not sure Gary can or not yet. :D
I gave him one of my biz cards, but I am sure he is not the internet type. He did call our home phone number the night before I left seeing if I made it home ok with the mill, thinking I had left that evening. I plan on going up and seeing him after I vote and before he leaves for Florida. He is only about 4 miles from the cabin, so its nice to have someone to visit with close again now that Lou is gone.
Gary took me across the road to see an Old Truck I had been wanting a close up look at since I spotted it probably 35 years ago. He said it has been sitting in the back of that field for at least 50 years without moving. He says the old fart that owns it will let it rust into the ground. Its a 39 dodge. Right up my alley. :D It was last plated the year I was born.
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Quote from: Jeff on October 28, 2018, 07:13:35 PM
Yes, the cabin is warm and comfortable. The only inconvenience is the water not being piped in, but honestly it isn't that big a deal unless your a wife. :D
All the logs are sawn that were piled on my property and all the cedar hauled home. There is probably 1000ft of tamarack in cant form still up there. Not sure what to do with that yet. The cedar will be resawn down here. Wish I had a gang saw and a 4 sided planer, id make paneling out of it.
Gary took me across the road to see an Old Truck I had been wanting a close up look at since I spotted it probably 35 years ago. He said it has been sitting in the back of that field for at least 50 years without moving. He says the old fart that owns it will let it rust into the ground. Its a 39 dodge. Right up my alley. :D It was last plated the year I was born.
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Do I smell a new project in the works? Maybe a new FF truck? Great story about Gary. The old boy is obviously hurting and greiving his loss. Good on you for taking an interest and offering your friendship.
I know where there's an old dodge truck out of Bonanza Oregon and it has probably been sitting and rusting for just about the same amount of time. The one thing it has going for it is the fact that here on Oregon's high desert we only get about 16" of precipitation a year so it takes a little longer for it to rust into the ground
Nice truck. I'd like to do a truck project. I have two car projects to finish first. Hey, I finished two already and the next two are in much better condition.
From what I can see, this truck is complete other than the generator and voltage regulator. As Gary said though, the old guy wont let it go. A large timberframe barn is collapsed there o top of an old John deer tractor. He had a chance to sell the barn several years ago and did not.