I was just wondering if anyone is planning on going to the Paul Bunyon Show in Ohio The first weekend in Oct. . I will be going and would like to meet up if someone else is going to attend. It is a good time and they have some good eats and tons of things to look at.
Hope to see ya soon WV hillbilly :)
I can give you a definite "Maybe". It has been discussed between our forest tech and I. He has a step son in Columbus, so we are considering it.
I may be broke by then though from logging congress and various forestry association board meetings I'm supposed to be at during Sept. Maybe them guys better start giving thier webmaster an expense account ;D., The 1st of Oct. is opening of Archery Deer and the bigget reason I say maybe.
Mary and I are planning on going. Just we ain't made any plans yet. :-/
We went last fall and had a great time. Trees were just about ready to turn. Lots more to see and do than many of the other forest industry shows.
(https://forestryforum.com/images/YaBBImages/userpics/pb%20scenery5.jpg)
Here is one of the cabins in the pioneer village set up on the Hocking College campus.
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We arrived just before the sun came up over the hill.
I would like to go, but it is a busy weekend for me. I am going to try to get there,just figuring out what day is the only problem. :)
I hope yall can make it down to southern ohio for the show.There is just so much to see . I wish I had a rich uncle so I could buy one of everything I see down there.I live about 2 1/2 hours north of it. I 'm flexible about the day I will attend so hopefully some of us can get togather there.The leaves should be changingcolor about then and you have to drive through Wayne National Forest to get there from any direction.
see ya soon WV hillbilly
I am going to try and make that show this year. Usually go to the Logging Congress but could not make it this year. Nelsonville is a lot closer(about five hours). I will probably go on Friday if I can get away, it has been pretty hectic around here lately.
I would like to meet some of the people to go with the names I see here on the forum.
Let me know of any plans for getting together.
Dewey
I'am not going to that show but two other guys from Mobile Mfg Co will be there demonstrating the MDS so if you guys would like to check us out come by and say hi to Don and Steve, I will be at the Kentucky Wood expo and the West Virgina Show (Flatwoods WV) the previous weekends.
sawmill_john
I hope we can get together at the show it is a great place to see just about everything new and old in the timber industry. A couple of years ago a logging company brought a white oak log in on a trailer and coldn't fit another one on the trailer. I want to say it was 50 ft. long 7ft. at the butt and 4ft. at the small end. It was on a 40 ft. trailer and just dwarfed it. Approx how many bd/ft do you think was there in that one log.Does anyone think you could get a couple of 12 in. wide Quarter sawn boards with no knots out of it. ??? just kidding about the last remark after seeing some of those ugly logs you millers get and people want miracles cut out of them.
hope to see ya soon WV hillbilly
According to our sawlog calculator a log measured at the small end at 48" and 50 foot long is
Doyle:6050 Scribner: 5376
International: 5521
If you cut it in half and 1 log was 48" at the small end and the other log was 64" at the small end
you would have little log:
Doyle:3025 Scribner: 2688
International: 2761
And the butt log:
Doyle:5625 Scribner: 4850
International: 4955
Kinda like the Boone and Crockett measuring system. Some of those forked logs do kind of have a 'non-typical' look to them. Maybe there shold be a second scoring system just for them. :D lw
Jeff
Anyway you slice it that's a big whack out of one log.
I just found out today that they are going to cast the Athens County Bicentenial Bell on Fri. , take it out of the mold , polish, and ring it for the fist time on Sat. .They will be doing the same thing at the Blackwalnut Festival the following week in Monroe County.The Blackwalnut festival is only about a 40 minute ride from my house. It is like the Paul Bunyon show but on a much smaller size. I will have to leartn how to post pics so I can show you the steam powered circle mill at the walnut festival.
Hillbilly,
Do you mean that the casting of a bell is a local affair? Do you have a local foundry or is this some kind of traveling service?
I sure would like to see pictures of that Process?
Tom
The State of Ohio hired a Foundry that has a mobile caster to cast one in all 88 counties in Ohio before next Summer to celebrat the States Bicentenial. They paid a guy from close to here to paint the Bicentenial Logo on at least 88 Barns through out the state.Sorta like the way they used to paint Mail Pouch Logo on barns years ago. Harvey Warick was the guy who painted alot of Mail Pouch barns he lived only about 20 Mins. from here.
Back to the bells . I will take my digital camera and take pics of the process so you can see too. I just will have to be educated as to how to do this. I only know how to upload pics to Ebay.
Abig fuss was made over the contract for casting these bells as it was not bid on . Someone just handed this company the job. It was probably some type of political back scratchin goin on.
You take the pictures and we'll get them on the forum even if you have to email them to me. Read the picture upload stuff I wrote for the knowledge base and it might help.
It's under ForestryForum Tips
here's the link https://forestryforum.com/tips/tips.cgi?display:1021999910-6825.txt
Hi yall
I will be going to the show on Sat. due to a change in my work schedule.I hope some people will go so we can meet up and talk a while.
Don't worry Tom I will get pics of them taking the bell out of the mold and finishing it . Then next Sat i will be going to the Blackwalnut Festival to Take pics of the casting of the Monroe county Bell .That way every one can see the entire process. From what I hear they are lining up volunteers to act like a bucket brigade to get the ingots from a pile to the mobile furnace. Sounds kinda neat . I can hardly wait.
WV Hillbilly,
Have you decided what day you are going, which routes do you take.I am going on sunday, I am taking I-70 to Zanesville and south from there. If you are going to be there that day mabye we could meet somehere,mabye the Timber Harvester tent ;). If so write back.
Dugsaws
Doug
Dugsaws
We must've been typing at the same time. Sat is when I have to go . We will be going down Route 7 to Belpre then 50 and 33 to Nelsonville. Where are you coming from? I can look out my kitchen window and see the Ohio River and West By God Virginia. The great state where I was born and raised.
Hillbilly
I am leaving from Waynesburg,Pa area you live about 45 minutes away from me. I came home the way you said in 1999 and it took me about 4 1/2 hours,now I go to Zanesville and south on rte 93 only takes me a little over 3 hours from my house.
I am going Saturday also. Timber Harvester sent me free tickets. Greg Has been trying to get me to come up and look at there mills and I dont have the time to drive to New York. So this should work out good. I have been wanting to go to the Bunyon Show for a long time. I will bring my digital camera and get lots of pics.
Craigc90,
Here is a link to the photo album of pictures of sawmills I took last year at the Paul Bunyan show.
http://www.cartogra.com/home/ViewMyAlbum.asp?coll_id=1072557
I'm sure I got one of the Timber Harvester among them someplace. They were set up right next to the Wood-Mizer tent. If you get a minute, stop in at the Wood-Mizer tent and say Hi to John Hicks or Dave Mann for me.
Craic90 ,
At noon Sat. some people from another forum and I are going to meet at the TH booth. So if anyone else is going to be there we could meet there also.
Dugsaws
I might try that route this time going down there. Do you run a mobile or stationary unit. Iwould like to see your setup if possible to learn alittle more firsthand about bandmills. I have a friend who has a circle mill but it doesn't appeal to me to own one .
Hope to see yall real soon ;)
WV hillbilly
I have a mobile T.H. but I dont get to use it as much as I would like,my dad keeps me busy milking cows.
Bibbyman
Nice pictures. Picture 19 and 20 show American Bandsawmills. I have one sitting in my backyard its my Brothers mill has a 20 horse Honda powerunit Hydraulic loader and cant roller. He has had some problems with it but everthing has been resolved. I have been cutting some logs off my woodlot with it and I have the fever. I want a fully Hydraulic mill with auto feed. The one my brother has is a manual feed .
Learning from my brothers mistakes. I think I need to stick to a Woodmizer or A Timberharvester. From everthing I have read here the customer support is top priority with woodmizer and that is very important to me.I am going to the show with an open mind to learn more befor I buy anything.
WV hillbilly
I will try to meet up with you there at the TH tent we only live about 1/2 hour from each other. Do you know how early you can get in to the show? I was going to leave early go get some breakfast and get there early so I have time to study all the equipment.
One of the food stands was serving a breakfast menu about sunup. I got a big plate of biscuits and sausage gravy and cup of coffee and set down among the empty tables while Mary went to check out some knick-knack stuff.
There was a line of people coming into the grounds and they were glancing over to see what I was eating. By the time I got my breakfast done, all the tables were full - including the one where I was setting. I thought about going back and asking for my money back for all the customers I had attracted. ;D
Craigc90
The gates into the show open to the public at 8 am all 3 days. I am going to try and be there before 9 am. If your up to it they should have a stock saw competiotion set up by Stihl sometime in the early afternoon. It is open to anyone and they supply the equipment " saws , chaps , and helmets " . It was alot of fun the lastime I entered . :)
Hey Jeff are you going to make it down here this weekend? ???
I am going to try and be there around 8:00
That stock saw competition sounds like fun. My friend that is riding to the show with me drives log truck . He wants to enter the log loader competition. He would also get a kick out of the stock saw competition.
WV hillbill,
If it is not to late when you get back from the show could you give a weather report so i know wether to take mud boots or just plainn shoes.Thanks.
Dugsaws
Doug
I'll do that for you Dugsaws. Are you going to cutting any lumber next week?
Craigc90
Where do you live ?
WV-hillbilly
I live near Bloomingdale Ohio just up the river from you. West of Wintersville and Steubenville.If you see this post befor the show I will be at the Timber Harvaster area at 12:00 I will have a Snap On Raceing hat on.
WV hillbilly
I dont know if i will be cutting any next week, I am trying to get my dry kiln building finished,I have the outside done just have to finish the inside. I have a pile of cherry and walnut i will be sawing to fill the kiln for my first run.I can let you know when i start sawing if you would like.
Doug
I'll see ya there Craigc90 . I will have an all orange #20 Tony Stewart hat.
Dugsaws that would be nice If you would let me know and I could fit it in to my schedule ..
Have a good time at the show everyone and bring back lots of ideas for new things to build, buy or use.
Hillbilly :)
WV-hillbilly.
I did not see your post befor I went to bed last night. I probably walked by you 10 times today. And didnt know it. sorry I missed you guys. I came home with lots of flier's and ideas.
Dugsaws,
It wasn't all that bad for walking around. The only place there was ankle deep mud is on the roads where they were driving heavy equipment around on the one end of the show. They put slabs across the roads at intervals so if you wanted to cross it you wouldn't get muddy. On both sides of the road ther was still grass. I hope this helps .
It was another great show and I learned some about logging arches and I think I will atempt to build one.
:) hillbilly
Thanks, I am sure I will have a good one 8)
WV hillbilly
Had a great time at the show, was dissapointed not to see any 6" double cut mills.But was impressed with the Mobile Dimesion mill it looked like a very thought out machine.
Anyhow got to meet MTN Jack, talked to him for almost an hour, we exchanged experiences and ideas and talked about our operations, he seemed like a nice guy who knows mabye all of us can get together some day.See you later
Doug
I'm happy everyone got to the show and back safely. There was so many things to look at . I came home with lots of ideas of things to buy and build . We will get together some time Craig and Doug. Doesn't Mtn Jack have it good Doug . He gets paid to take the trees away and then cuts them into boards .Thats getting paid both ways if you ask me. The Mobile Dimension also impresed me . I watched the WM LT 70 three times on Sat cutting wood. It is an impressive saw but alot out of my range by about $40 K.
Craig I kept looking for you but didn't see your hat. Did you get into the stock saw competition? I got there at 9:30 and they said it was full. So I just looked at more sawmills.
:) hillbilly
WVhillbilly
I did not try to get in the stock saw.My friend brought his 4 year old son and it made things a little difficult to get around. I watched all the mills and edgers and rode the train over to the Rocky Boot factory. Had one heck of a good time.
We got there at 8:00 and left at 3:30 for home.
WV_hillbilly
Your telling me he has it good gets paid to take the tree down, then gets paid when he sells the lumber.He has a nice operation it sounds like life is treating him good,glad to hear someone is :D
Doug