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General Forestry => Sawmills and Milling => Topic started by: Upper on February 09, 2017, 12:09:06 PM

Title: My Wood-Mizer Adventure
Post by: Upper on February 09, 2017, 12:09:06 PM
Started off with a new 661 and an Alaskan

 (https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/41009/csm1.jpg?easyrotate_cache=1486659855) Deodor Cedar

 (https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/41009/csm.jpg?easyrotate_cache=1486660071) Canary Island Pine
Title: Re: My Wood-Mizer Adventure
Post by: Upper on February 09, 2017, 12:12:43 PM
3 Months Later,World AG Expo in Tulare Calif.Is where it began.

 (https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/41009/farm_show.jpg?easyrotate_cache=1486660303)
Title: Re: My Wood-Mizer Adventure
Post by: Upper on February 09, 2017, 12:20:05 PM
First cuts,bug kill Blue Pine.

 (https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/41009/bug_kill.jpg?easyrotate_cache=1486660543) All but about 6 Cedar trees and that Black Oak are now also dead.
Title: Re: My Wood-Mizer Adventure
Post by: Upper on February 09, 2017, 12:23:37 PM
First load off the hill.

 (https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/41009/load.jpg?easyrotate_cache=1486660959)
Title: Re: My Wood-Mizer Adventure
Post by: Upper on February 09, 2017, 12:25:55 PM
Decided to bring the logs to the saw.

 (https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/41009/adventuree.jpg?easyrotate_cache=1486661107)
Title: Re: My Wood-Mizer Adventure
Post by: Upper on February 09, 2017, 12:33:24 PM
Snowed out for the winter,my dad and his dad built this cabin in 1952.

 (https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/41009/cabin.jpg?easyrotate_cache=1486661549)
Title: Re: My Wood-Mizer Adventure
Post by: Upper on February 09, 2017, 12:37:23 PM
So I built some badly needed,yet strongly suggested "Wood Doc" pallets.

 (https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/41009/adventure.jpg?easyrotate_cache=1486661801)
Title: Re: My Wood-Mizer Adventure
Post by: Upper on February 09, 2017, 12:43:15 PM
And then of course the signature virgin woodworking prodject.
You got it,picture frames.

 (https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/41009/frame1.jpg?easyrotate_cache=1486662018) 

 (https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/41009/frame2.jpg?easyrotate_cache=1486662077) 

 (https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/41009/frame.jpg?easyrotate_cache=1486662121)
Title: Re: My Wood-Mizer Adventure
Post by: Kcwoodbutcher on February 09, 2017, 12:55:04 PM
Looks good, but that's a lot of work for a picture frame.
Title: Re: My Wood-Mizer Adventure
Post by: thecfarm on February 09, 2017, 12:58:44 PM
Interesting frames you make.
What's all the lumber being used for?
Title: Re: My Wood-Mizer Adventure
Post by: Upper on February 09, 2017, 01:06:21 PM
I use most of it for building and Log siding.Alot of slabs fly out of here,and I have a shaper with a powerfeed that I make t&g.
  Keep in mind I have a good day job...Oh and the knothole frame is set to have a Rattlesnake slithering through,with its demise in the picture
Title: Re: My Wood-Mizer Adventure
Post by: Chuck White on February 09, 2017, 03:56:04 PM
Congratulations on the new mill!   8)
Title: Re: My Wood-Mizer Adventure
Post by: slider on February 09, 2017, 04:34:25 PM
Nice work.How did you get that log in the cattle trailer.I have had to drag some hard headed cows in one but never a log.
Title: Re: My Wood-Mizer Adventure
Post by: Upper on February 09, 2017, 05:07:47 PM
Slider,I mounted a winch up in the deck.And for the second row I slide a big board between the rails in the back.Get them up and over then drag them like stray dogs to the front............
Title: Re: My Wood-Mizer Adventure
Post by: Gundog on February 10, 2017, 12:48:04 AM
I grew up in central Cal where are you at? I spent a lot of time in the hills above Fresno. The cabin with snow picture reminds me of Shaver or Dinky Creek.

Mike
Title: Re: My Wood-Mizer Adventure
Post by: Brucer on February 10, 2017, 12:57:02 AM
I did that "CSM leads to a Wood-Mizer" thing, only it took me 24 years to make the transition instead of 3 months :D.
Title: Re: My Wood-Mizer Adventure
Post by: Upper on February 10, 2017, 10:02:36 AM
You are right on it Gundog......
Title: Re: My Wood-Mizer Adventure
Post by: Gundog on February 10, 2017, 12:15:46 PM
Quote from: Upper on February 10, 2017, 10:02:36 AM
You are right on it Gundog......

That is cool I miss that area when I was a kid now 56 my dad owned the pack station at Wishon & Courtwright lakes. When it was called Miller Pack Trains.

Mike
Title: Re: My Wood-Mizer Adventure
Post by: 4x4American on February 10, 2017, 08:05:24 PM
Quote from: Brucer on February 10, 2017, 12:57:02 AM
I did that "CSM leads to a Wood-Mizer" thing, only it took me 24 years to make the transition instead of 3 months :D .


I did that too,  took me probably 1-3 years, I can't remember, I wasn't keeping track!
Title: Re: My Wood-Mizer Adventure
Post by: Darrel on February 10, 2017, 08:39:14 PM
I grew up in California's gold country a bit north of you. Grassvalley, Brownsville.
Title: Re: My Wood-Mizer Adventure
Post by: WDH on February 11, 2017, 07:39:59 AM
I have never dragged (drug) a stay dog.  That dog will bite you. 
Title: Re: My Wood-Mizer Adventure
Post by: Upper on February 11, 2017, 10:29:50 AM
WDH,so will a broken cable "Hence",named my son Spence,the Remote...........
Title: Re: My Wood-Mizer Adventure
Post by: gimpy on February 21, 2017, 03:21:30 PM
As for the Wood-Mizer Adventure? I have been sick in bed for a couple weeks. So I wanted to research the cost of a bed extension for my mill. I e-mailed. Then a week or so later I e-mailed them again to ask if they were still in business and still supporting their owners. That was 2/18/17. This morning I finally got a return e-mail.

Never have been ignored by them before when trying to spend money. Should I be worried?
Title: Re: My Wood-Mizer Adventure
Post by: Darrel on February 21, 2017, 03:58:19 PM
The 18th was Saturday not everyone's in on Saturday. Nobody's in on Sunday and Monday was a holiday. No, no need to worry.
Title: Re: My Wood-Mizer Adventure
Post by: 47sawdust on February 21, 2017, 04:24:56 PM
Upper,
I laugh every time I see that log in the stock trailer.Gotta use what you have around, right.Sure hope you weren't smuggling something in that log.
Title: Re: My Wood-Mizer Adventure
Post by: 4x4American on February 21, 2017, 07:12:29 PM
Emailing is hit or miss with WM, more often than not they respond.  I have had much better luck calling though.