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General Forestry => Sawmills and Milling => Topic started by: woodmills1 on July 08, 2003, 10:19:15 AM
was reminded today of a very large oak log I cut a few weeks back but forgot to post. It was so big I had to drag and load it with the dozer and the woodmizer loader barely lifted it. At 16 foot long I cut 1 4x12 and 17 2x6. It was a custom order so the rest made 24 1x2 stickers. that is 400 bd ft by my calculations. I figure ifin I coulda made fence wood out of it I could have made near 450 dollars. WOW!
We've sawn some big'n's back when we were young and foolish.
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Here is one water oak that was 20' long. Didn't stop to count the board feet but we sawed out 9 2"x16" x 20' after it was squared down and a bunch of other shorter and narrower boards along the way.
Had another second cut log 10' long that sawed out over 500 bf of 2x4s. :o
That was back when we had the Wood-Mizer LT40 manual mill. Loaded the log by ramping it up onto the mill using our ton flatbed. Getting it on the mill was not nearly as big a problem as turning it.
Bibbyman, who is that next to your mill? Can't be you 'cause he ain't wearing Bibs! :o Who is that mystery man? ::)
That be me BB (Before Bibs) ;D