Hello everyone! I just joined the forum. Lately I have felt the urge to saw some lumber. I have been watching youtube videos and surfing the web. I ran across fellow member YellowHammer's web page. I contacted him and he recommended that I join this forum. So here I am! I hope I can learn a lot and maybe even contribute something one day!
We likes new people! Welcome to the Forestry Forum. :)
Tons of knowledge, ideas, problem solving, and experience on here, so stick around.
ok thanks for the warm welcome clww! I think i will hang around and learn something. Lots of things to look at around here for sure!!
Welcome to the Forestry Forum we like pictures 8)
Welcome ;D 8) 8) 8) :snowball:
Howdy crismsoncutter, no doubt yellowhammer gave you some good advice. this place has helped me several times over. As well as meeting some good folks, from sawing to drying, building ideas, cooking to laughing, as someone mentioned awhile back, it's like reading the morning news paper. I wish you the best on your sawing adventures.
CrimsonCutter,welcome to the forum.
I had the same urge too. Buying a sawmill does help out that problem. ;D What will you be building with the lumber?
Welcome to the Forestry Forum.
@ thecfarm I am the owner of a large poultry operation. So I will be using most of what I cut for my own farm use. I need quite a bit of lumber to board up the curtain walls on my chicken houses and place 2 runs of 2x10 on the inside bottom too, as an improvement. I have approx. 6,000 running feet of walls. Also the current barn/shed that I am going to dedicate to setting up the sawmill is in need of some repair. After that who knows! Always something to be done or fixed around here, lol
Welcome!!
Welcome, soon you will selll the chickens and just saw wood..
Quote from: Stephen1 on July 02, 2014, 06:49:12 PM
Welcome, soon you will selll the chickens and just saw wood..
That would be awesome!! 112,000 square feed of building would make a great place to stack lumber ;)
Hey CrimsonCutter ! Thought I knew every town in Alabana, but then I found out about the 2011 tornado...........Lots of Forum members in Dixie....Sponsors include Cooks Saw near Dothan. Our son was born at Guntersville, 50 years ago. We lived in Albertville for 3 years back then. Still have friends there.......I operate a Cooks MP-32 mill and have their Cats Claw sharpener. I presume you are a Tide fan..... Welcome to the Forum !!
Welcome CrimsonCutter! Wonder how long it would take to fill 112,000 sq ft with lumber?? ;D
Welcome to the Forum, CrimsonCutter.
Welcome from the west coast. Lots and lots 'O' knowledge here. Just remember, we like pictures!!!
Fat olde elf I am a Bama fan! :) guntersville area is beautiful! The town I live in was totally destroyed by an EF5 tornado in 2011 but we are coming back bigger and better!!! Thanks for the welcomes and learning to post pics will be top priority ;)
Welcome to the Forum! I was hoping you'd join in. This is a great place with great folks that know what they are talking about.
Feel free to come up and visit sometime, we'll mill some lumber. With you being a Bama fan and with a name like CrimsonCutter, you'll know some of the background of my Forum name.
YH
Welcome to the Forestry Forum, CrimsonCutter
Thanks for the invite YellowHammer might make a little road trip your way when I get an open window. And your right I do understand your forum name ;D
Welcome CC, are you planning to buy or build your own.?? Possible twofer, boards and bedding. Frank C.
Thanks bandmiller! At first I looked at buying but after looking around I think I am going to try and build my own. you are also correct on the twofer, I currently spend around 10k per year on sawdust bedding so a mill by product would be very valuable to me. Maybe I can find a way to grind up the slab that I will eventually have and use that as well :)
https://forestryforum.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=5916
first attempt at posting a pic!
can anyone tell me how to post a picture from gallery to thread? I seem to be having some technical difficulties lol
Quote from: CrimsonCutter on July 03, 2014, 01:46:15 PM
can anyone tell me how to post a picture from gallery to thread? I seem to be having some technical difficulties lol
You were pretty much there. You successfully placed the picture in our gallery, so at that point all you have to do I so select the picture in your gallery, and a new page will open. Scroll about halfway down the page and select "insert image in Post" which is what it will do. Another way to copy and paste the code right below the "insert" phrase into the post
Here's your picture.
Looks like a perfect place for a mill, and then some.
YH
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Welcome to the forum. There are an incredible number of knowledgeable and helpful folks here at the forum.
Seems like there will be a new use for the slabs after you get your mill.
Chicken Roasting
CC if sawdust is of good value to your operation consider setting up a handset circular mill they will produce much more and courser sawdust than a band. Something like a Belsaw would be easy to drive from your tractor. There are many old mill laying fallow around the countryside, ask around. Frank C.
Welcome CC,
Frank beat me to that one on the sawdust, He hit the nail on the head with circular mills being the unchallenged champion of sawdust production. I sure like the way those mills cut and the telltale saw marks are the give away, if you can use the sawdust thats a plus, after switching to a band mill I realized that the thin kerf blades turned out a minimum amount of sawdust and it easy to work by yourself if you need to. Nice photo of your mill shed and it should take you a while to "grow out of that one" ..... I see your pickup mirror in that shot, Hmmmm is that considered a drive by shooting ;D.
CC, welcome to the forum. Some of the poultry operations around here buy bundles of slabs for heating, too, though I'm guessing that isn't a huge issue for you. Best of luck with your sawmill adventure. I live 20 miles south of Joplin, MO, also hit by a tornado in 2011. Amazing the damage they can do.
Thanks for the info Frank and Giant. Forgive my ignorance but is there a difference between bel saw, handset and a circular mill or are the all the same thing? Secondly anyone have any good plans for building one or good links? Thanks in advance! And yes that was a drive by shooting lol I was in my "paid for" 1988 ford farm truck I call it my FCV (farm command vehicle) :)
Thanks DBoyt. Joplin,mo got hit right after us very bad for the both up us! Unbelievable the power of Mother Nature !! Heating is always an issue for a poultry farm , it's our number 1 expense. The more I look into a mill the better I like how it could benefit and compliment what I am already doing :)
Welcome CC! Sounds like the idea mill is churning in overdrive now!! Just think, you own sawdust, your own slabs and bark(hog fuel), add a wood gasifier, and you can have heat and independent power production. The possibilities are endless 8)
Hello and Welcome to the Forestry Forum, CrimsonCutter. 8)
Quote from: mad murdock on July 05, 2014, 10:05:24 AM
Welcome CC! Sounds like the idea mill is churning in overdrive now!! Just think, you own sawdust, your own slabs and bark(hog fuel), add a wood gasifier, and you can have heat and independent power production. The possibilities are endless 8)
Yeh but at some point he may want some boards out of the logs as well. ;D
Welcome crimson cutter.
CC, Belsaw is just one brand of circular saw probably the most basic and common mill. They were advertised as a one man farm type mill quite easy to set up and operate. Today theres little price difference between a "B" saw and a heavier duty mill like a Corley or Frick, but they will require a better heavier foundation. Ask around there are more old mill out there than you think. Frank C.
Ok thanks for the clarification band miller. I want a stationary mill anyways so heavy foundation not a problem. I was an Air Force bratt and when we moved to Alabama my dad decided we would build our own house. We went to a neighbor and cut the lumber on his circular saw mill. I can remember as a kid stacking boards! That thing had a huge deisel motor on it. It was only quarter of a mile from my current location. Its gone though I checked. I'm guessing after he passed his kids sold it. :/