I've been wondering if I was too caught up in this milling thing. My wife said something was not right about this when she "caught" me watching the Norwood promotional dvd for about the 13th time. So I started thinking of reasons you might be milling too much.
1 you are fishing and you see a large tree in the water, instead of thinking about where a large fish might be lurking around the tree, you are wondering how many feet you could have gotten out of that log.
2 Your Norwood assembly manual is still your favorite "throneroom" reading material_______
and your mill has been assembled over a month.
3 You run off the road looking at a dying pine and wonder if it would be any good milled up.
4 You read any of Greg Brown's posts.
Feel free to add your own thoughts.
No such thing as trees, only standing logs. Steve
Quote from: Greg Brown on February 15, 2012, 08:58:37 PM
3 You run off the road looking at a dying pine and wonder if it would be any good milled up.
:D :D :D :D :D You are a mind reader!
You go to the store and the clerk says "That will be $5.30." You pull the $.30 of change out of your pocket and spill a load of sawdust on the counter.
I leave a little sawdust where ever I go. Nice one. :D
You think pepsi taste better with sawdust
When you drive you are thinking of the best way to saw, dry, and store all those potential boards you see next to the road :D
Oh, and what it would be like if you had all those trees to yourself!
You come home late with pitch all over the front of your shirt and your wife says, "Where have you been smiley_mean?"
You can get a piece of saw dust out of the corner of your eye with a piece of rolled up toilet paper quicker than you can sneeze.
Your kids like to play with "stickers".
You can't tell the differance between sawing wood and dreaming about sawing wood.
Your always late where ever you go because your chasing the local tree service truck looking for logs.
You got a whack of boards, a real whack, and you look around and realize that you have no more stickers and no place to stack the whack :D.
I always look forward to Cook's sending out their latest catalog. I keep a copy by the throne at my shop and house. wait_smiley I just wish they would publish more often. It would be even better if it had a few more pages. Hint Hint
Maybe someone from Cook's will read this thread and get the presses going. They always have the most informative reading material. ;D
Quote from: WDH on February 15, 2012, 09:27:52 PM
You go to the store and the clerk says "That will be $5.30."
Someone mentions $5.30 and you instantly know that that's how many bf are in an 8' 2X4. ;D
Quote from: rbarshaw on February 15, 2012, 09:59:50 PM
You can't tell the differance between sawing wood and dreaming about sawing wood.
Oh, that's really good! Can I use that as my signature in my profile?
Robert Barshaw,
My Dad is from Cottageville. You know any Bishops around those parts?
you bring home a box of pine saw dust in the only empty container you had for your wife to smell the wonder full smell of that pine and she wants to feed it to you for supper.
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You are sawing logs ten hours a day 6 days a week and you come home with this bright idea to build a website so you can talk about sawing logs.
Your laying in bed with agonizing back pain from milling all day, but still all you can think of is getting back at er'
Quote from: Jeff on February 15, 2012, 11:57:38 PM
You are sawing logs ten hours a day 6 days a week and you come home with this bright idea to build a website so you can talk about sawing logs.
:D :D :D :D :) :) :) :) :D :D :D :D
:D :D :D :D :D
And you are still doing it (talking about sawing logs on a website that you created. You did good!) 8)
MM,
I checked out you math, and you are right. I must have it bad, real bad :-\.
I seen some spiders today but i didnt see their web sight! 8)
Quote from: Jeff on February 15, 2012, 11:57:38 PM
You are sawing logs ten hours a day 6 days a week and you come home with this bright idea to build a website so you can talk about sawing logs.
You come in from milling all day and tell yer wife "when I go, I want it to be in a fresh sawn pine box, no fancy metal and silk, I want the smell of wood surrounding me" ;)
You throw your back out trying to handle oversized logs so you spend the next 10 days going back and forth between the floor,bed and couch looking at FF and sawmill ads thinking if I just had a bigger mill with all the hydrolics I could still be sawing ,while receiving threats from your wife saying " YOU BETTER NOT" she will get over it if I do . (maybe)
You Don't Know What Bloody Day It Is :) :) ??? ::) ::) ;) :D :D :D
You're sawing all day long and the first thing you do when you get home is jump on the Forestry Forum to see what everyone else sawed today! ;D
You think about quartersawing the t.p. roll. ::)
You sawmill all day then come home and sawmill some more. You then have a light go off in your head about the blades so you go over and do some sharpening to see if this little trick will help your blades tomorrow.
When you miss breakfast (again) because you found more information on FF and had to read it :) :) :) and had to go to work. ;) ;)
When Bob comes by to check out your WOODMIZER and you ask him if he's got time to give YOU a physical.
:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
You trip over something looking at trees in the woods.
I want to go to a party in Aug to talk for 2 days about wood and then blame it on the pig.
You lust after the neighbors red oaks and completely ignore his wife sunbathing under them.
some good ones here for sure!
"you"re vacationing in puerto rico (currently) and you see some interestingly colored small logs cut up by the side of the road when you actually stop to think about how large of a piece you could smuggle home to saw!" :)
Quote from: Jeff on February 15, 2012, 11:57:38 PM
You are sawing logs ten hours a day 6 days a week and you come home with this bright idea to build a website so you can talk about sawing logs.
Yes Jeff but we all love you for it. There isnt one member on this site that does not THANK YOU very much for what we have learned, what have been able to contribute and even for the times when you have had to smack a few of us up the side of the head a bit.
Oh and I forgot about all those little things laying around the shop, the mill, the yard the back of the truck etc. that we have traded amongst us members on the barter system where some need something that some one else wasn't using anymore, the shipping, the for sale and wanted bulletin boards.
Ok I will quit now. By the way when do you find time to saw?
THANKYOU!! From all of us. This site is part of what keeps many us of sawing toooooo much!
May be its Jeff's fault we all saw so much and love it so much? I think thats my new excuse for sawing to much!
so im really not all alone after all
No. ;D "We are here!" ;) Welcome!
No you are not alone, Sawmill Man, and Welcome to the Forestry Forum. No way are you getting off that light. How about an introduction and sharing your sawing interests. :)
What about when you cant...
1 quit thinking about how to make your mill work just a little bit better.
2 keep enough logs at your mill.
3 stay away from the mill for more than 3 days without having withdrawls.
4 stop adding blade kerf to everything you measure.
5 seem to get all the threads in sawmills and milling read up to date, cause you spent too much time milling.
6 keep up with your blade sharpening.
7 find an excuse to saw but you are still sawing.
8 recognise your own children, but you know your offbearers life story.
9 qiut.
10 remember your anniversary, but you know every part number on your mill.
PC
11. When you cant be sure if your wife fed you the saw dust, but the Timbits box on the counter is EMPTY.
There is NO SUCH THING as spending too much time milling.
You know you aren't spending enough time milling when you have time to add to this thread :D.
See a fine load of logs on a truck pass by and wish they would drop them off at your house.
Seeing a fine load of logs pass by and thinking it probably definitely would make sense to get a truck like that.
Wife :-* gets on to you to cut the grass, and other chores around the home.
You cut potatoes by slabbing and then turning for the best face ;D
Box the heart leaving a big fat french fry.
Deer hunting season but you only look at the logs you could get from your trees and imagine them on your mill and asking yourself why you carry a gun :(
You are at the hospital while your mother is having heart surgery and you are wondering how many hits you got on the "you know you are spending too much time milling" post.
I have to admit now that when I go to the bathroom again, I will be looking at that T.P roll in a whole new light :D.
Quote from: Ga_Mtn_Man on February 15, 2012, 10:26:01 PM
Quote from: rbarshaw on February 15, 2012, 09:59:50 PM
You can't tell the differance between sawing wood and dreaming about sawing wood.
Oh, that's really good! Can I use that as my signature in my profile?
Robert Barshaw,
My Dad is from Cottageville. You know any Bishops around those parts?
I know of a Scott bishop and his wife ann, they have 4 children.
Shure you can use it all you want.
Quote from: Brucer on February 16, 2012, 03:08:45 PM
There is NO SUCH THING as spending too much time milling.
You know you aren't spending enough time milling when you have time to add to this thread :D.
unless your adding to this thread while your at your day job. (and i hope none of my bosses read this ;D )
Driving down the interstate, you could care less about the pretty girls in the car next to you, cause you're too busy drooling over the veneer logs on the truck in front of you :D
when you plan your vacations around forestry and milling adventures!
Quote from: redbeard on February 16, 2012, 11:30:08 PM
when you plan your vacations around forestry and milling adventures!
It's called the Pig Roast, held the first Saturday in August. :D :D :D :D 8)
Bruce
Gday
Thanks For Starting The Forum up Jeff :) :) :) :) ;) ;D ;D 8) 8) 8) Without this place I would have never Likely Seen America Met Jesi or any of the Awesome People I Have alot that I would like to call good Mates Without All the Effort you your family and all the admin staff put into this place Thanks Mate :) :) :) :) ;) ;D ;D ;D ;D 8) 8)
Best Regards Chris
When you go home for lunch from your regular job and get on the sawmill.
When you blow your pockets out with your air hose, and the cab of your truck out with your leaf blower.
Quote from: terrifictimbersllc on February 17, 2012, 04:33:02 PM
When you blow your pockets out with your air hose, and the cab of your truck out with your leaf blower.
Yes, I do that to. I have a air hose running from my barn to the mill.
When you are more worried about your blades arriving today rather than your prescription medicine! :D :D :D
Quote from: POSTONLT40HD on February 17, 2012, 04:46:53 PM
When you are more worried about your blades arriving today rather than your prescription medicine! :D :D :D
When you're just leaving the driveway, and you realize you forgot to take your prescription medicine, but you keep going anyway. ::)
GOOD 1 " T "......That's not only funny....but TRUE!!!! :D :D :D :D :D
Sad but true. I would turn around if I forgot my LogRite though.
Quote from: roger 4400 on February 16, 2012, 07:00:54 PM
Deer hunting season but you only look at the logs you could get from your trees and imagine them on your mill and asking yourself why you carry a gun :(
;D ask my wife, I think last year she'd have rather shot me than a deer for doing just that :D. Oh well, I get my exercise anyhow.
Quote from: terrifictimbersllc on February 17, 2012, 04:33:02 PM
When you blow your pockets out with your air hose, and the cab of your truck out with your leaf blower.
When you dont dare let your wife know that have a leaf blower cause you know you will never see it again if you do.
(because it will be in her green house or garden shed)
You take your kids to the park/playground and instead of checking out the moms, you are checking out the 5' diameter Sycamore and dreaming of being the first one there when it falls to claim it....
When you leave the store you look back and see the clerk with a broom.
:D :D :D :D
when your wife says that you drive to slow anytime you pass a nice set of woods.
You get home from your regular job and go to the the saw mill and come in at 12:00 am.
Welcome to the Forestry Forum Ludo.
This is a great place to hang out.
When the wife says she don't want to go eat at that restaurant as there are to many pickup trucks in the parking lot and I will end up talking to all the men in there about sawing and lumber.
Speaking of leaf blowers, when you buy a new Stihl leaf blower just to carry in your work truck to blow off the sawmill. ;D
If it's bad weather and you can not be on the saw mill so you are on the The Forestry Forum.
It's raining big time here also. ;D
Magic, you have a whole lot more rain coming, seems the one export Texas has here lately.
Actually "leaf blowers" original name was "sawmill-blower-offer", but the manufactors figured wives would allow the purchase if the name was changed. :D :D :D :D
Quote from: Magicman on February 16, 2012, 01:40:16 PM
No you are not alone, Sawmill Man, and Welcome to the Forestry Forum. No way are you getting off that light. How about an introduction and sharing your sawing interests. :)
Hello Magicman and everyone i have been custom sawing for 25 years now in north La. So you could imagine all of these replies hit close to home.
Quote from: Sawmill Man on February 16, 2012, 12:35:06 PM
so im really not all alone after all
sawmillman, you have more company than you ever dreamed. There's sawmills all around you, a few locals on the forum. There's 7 with a marion address, 2 in ouachita city, one in crossroads, Farmervlle, and Bernice. Myself and LeroyC are the only ones on the forum. Come visit.
I knew there were other mills around. I was referring to all the experiences we seem to go through. I will take you up on that visit sometime pineywoods.
When you discover a previously unknown-to-science species of fungus that feeds off of sawdust in the cab of your pickup truck.
HEY YOU! Stay outta my pickup!Last time I left the door open this happened. It could happen to you, even in GA. :D PC
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Quote from: WDH on February 18, 2012, 08:47:53 PM
When you discover a previously unknown-to-science species of fungus that feeds off of sawdust in the cab of your pickup truck.
If you ever find out what feeds of sawdust in your truck, let me know! That sucker could get FAT in my truck. :) :) :) :) :) :)
Have to clean out your truck from all your tools so you can haul off the trash.
True story.Your wife calls you at work(felling logs) to tell you shes going into labor(first child) You rush home pick her up .hospital is 100 miles from home.Halfway to hospital you ask her how she feels. and make a 30 mile detour to get paid for some pallet stock you sold then back to drive the other 50 miles to hospital.You all know how hard it is to stop at another mill and not b.s. Made it everything worked out but man i sure hear about that one so does everyone else.Oh to be young and foolish again.Maybe thats why my son likes wood so much? :)I wonder how many people get to deliver their first born with sawdust in their pockets? the guys at the mill thought i was nuts.Looking back it was pretty foolish. :)
Looking back, I'm surprised your still married. :D :D :D
Shes a good one.I shouldnt tell about the time i had her driving the skidder pushing the stuck log truck.(we were behind it)She was 8mnths pregnant.when we were done she says im glad all the bouncing around didnt make me go into labor.How was i to know that could happen?Oh the memories.
When you don't even have your dang mill yet.....but you're still looking at every tree imagining making lumber out of it. 8)
Quote from: The Canuck on February 20, 2012, 06:18:52 PM
When you don't even have your dang mill yet.....but you're still looking at every tree imagining making lumber out of it. 8)
:)
Two more....
-Went to a funeral on Saturday for a close friend who left way too early, counted seven different species of wood in the church, two were cut both plain and quarter....
-Went the Museum of Natural History in New York City today. They have a GIANT dug out canoe from the pacific northwest made out of Doug Fir in the 1880's, only one known to survive this big (63'), all I could think of is re-saw....
I do alot of these things, but I'm always estimating how many cords of firewood I could get out of this or that tree. I usually have sawdust in my pockets.
Quote from: wood monger on February 20, 2012, 07:56:19 PM
I do alot of these things, but I'm always estimating how many cords of firewood I could get out of this or that tree. I usually have sawdust in my pockets.
:D well if i screw up I'm sure a wood burner can use it LOL 8)
When you see the saw marks on some crating material and think someone need to check the set on their bands. ;D
I got this idea from Terrifictimbers.
You know you are spending to much time milling when your wife holds your arms away from the controls.
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Quote from: POSTONLT40HD on February 19, 2012, 08:41:50 AM
Looking back, I'm surprised your still married. :D :D :D
First official "date" that I took Lil on, we stopped to look at a portable sawmill for sale. :D
At least she knew what she was getting herself into. ;)
Ian
Jake,
Looks like she is trying to keep you from planking on the drag-back table :D
Bumping this topic... some great funny stuff from 10 years ago :D
Thanks, I just enjoyed all 5 pages.
Quote from: Dragline on May 18, 2022, 08:08:05 PM
Bumping this topic... some great funny stuff from 10 years ago :D
Quote from: trimguy on May 18, 2022, 09:42:33 PM
Thanks, I just enjoyed all 5 pages.
I just did too.
...when you've been sawing portable jobs steady for two weeks and getting home late. Then one day you get home early, sit down at the dinner table with the family and your wife says, "Who are you?"
your kid says he needs toothpicks to do a school project and you take him out to the culled log pile.
Do you all keep a toothpick on your night stand for your phone's charger port too, or is that just me xD.
When you headlight is not enough light to saw after dark, so you turn the canopy LED lights on the tractor on.........................to brite.
When your off road fuel distributor knows you on a first name business and asks how the sawmill is doing.
When you drive the tractor too fast, only to have sawdust attack your face.
Your log supplier doesn't think twice about sending you a dumpster full of brush and stumps because he knows you love the logs he hinds under it all.
When your kids see you are not sawing in perfect daylight and they ask.....................Is the sawmill broke?
The automatic teller at the bank won't take your money because of damp sawdust sticking to it.
Repeat customers ask if they can sort thru your burn pile.
When you order WM parts, you ask for your favorite parts guy.
.....................................THANKS JEFF for this forum!!!
hugs, Brandi
When the only family vacation you take every five years is to the pig roast.
I finally gave up the tooth pic, bad eyes, and cut the end off a old coard an keep in in when in my pocket☺️
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No Black Gold is wasted or to much time spent jacking around with stuff people would consider garbage