Hello to all. I am Eddward Fitzgerald, I live in Marysville Ohio. My Buddy and I have started a sawmill in Marysville. We have been running it for about alittle over a year. Our main purpose with the mill is to make rairoad ties. Although some logs are just to good for that so we saw grade lumber out of them. My buddies dad has a mill just outside of town. He has been in the sawmill buisness for about 25 years. I have some pictures of our mill to share with everyone but dont know how to upload the to here can someone help please.
HI Edward and welcome to the forum
There is a page of instructions at https://forestryforum.com/upload.htm
Have a read through there and give it a go. Feel free to ask is anything there is confusing.
We like seeing pictures :D
Ian
i give up it wont let me upload them
Welcome aboard efitzgerald
eiftzgerald, how far from Colombus are you? I am about twenty-five southwest of Portsmouth on the Ky. side. How is your market for ties?
Welcome, and glad to have ya 8)
WELCOME 8)
So what kind of Mill are you using ???
Welcome aboard!
Hi Edward,
Welcome to the FF mate! To upload a picture you will probably need to scale it down a bit to fit in the required size. You can do this by decreasing the actual size & making it slightly less dpi.
Enjoy the Forum, just don't mention grits........
Welcome to the Forum, Edward.
Your not to far from me, maybe one of these days I'll swing over and check out your mill, if thats ok. ;D
EZ
anyone passing through Marysville can stop by and see the mill. I think I have figured out this picture thing. ok no i havent. I got the right piel size but to many bytes
Welcome to the forum! Don't give up on those pictures. It's kinda like an initiation to the club. Once you finally figure it out, you're in for good. I think it's Jeff's way of weeding out those folks that give up too easy.
LogRite
LogRite, thats real close to being right. Pictures are not that hard, and there is plenty of documentation on how to do it.
Welcome, and good luck with them pictures. You'll get er sooner or later... if your like me, it will be later. ;D
welcome there efitzgerald ! get them pictures sized down to 3-1/2 x 3-1/2 inches or pixels and then crunch em down to 15,000 and upload lickitty split. I still dont know what a pixel is ? Is that a form of measurement for picture size? Lets see that mill ef ! ???
Here's a "kind-a-like".
Look at the pictures in your newspaper, with a magnifying glass if you have to, and you will see that it is made up of little dots of colored ink.(or black in the case of b&w)
Those little dots would be pixels in a digital photo. The more that you have, the sharper the picture. The fewer that you have , the more chance that the picture will just fall apart and lose all detail.
Some photo compression software allows for the decrease in the bit density of pixels in the background but keeps a high volume in the areas of interest. That way the picture remains "apparently" sharp. :)
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/P/pixel.html
Welcome Ed, I am right between you and Wh just north of Portsmouth .
Welcome, Ed. What software are you using to resize the pics? Xact is real simple to use and the demo is free.
still wont work
C:\Documents and Settings\Edward Fitzgerald\My Documents\My Pictures\Picture\sawmill pics\fitzsaw1.jpg i think i got it lets hope here goes nothing.
I sent you a PM. The upload image links are hard to spot sometimes. When you click on reply to this message, do you see them right below where you would type in your message?
Don't give up. All of us here will help you because we want to see the mill. Now let's try it again!
thanks for the good description about pixels Tom, it was good
efitzgerald, don't worry. Anybody that's tougher than a two dollar steak just ain't a gonna give up, right. :) It took me forever to learn. Once you ever do it and figure out how easy it is it's just like when you finally learned how to ride a bike.
Almost got it :)
The pictures are uploaded and in the photo gallery.
(https://forestryforum.com/images/03_21_04/fitzcircle%20saw.jpg)
(https://forestryforum.com/images/03_21_04/fitzfirewood%20spliter.jpg)
(https://forestryforum.com/images/03_21_04/fitzsaw1.jpg)
Just need to link them into the posts now
Ian
Just gotta remember one thing, the word "Cant" ONLY refers to a square chunk of wood. ;D ;D ;D ;D
Nice Mill set-up. ;)
Welcome Ed just one thought where do you find a steak for $2.00? :D
(https://forestryforum.com/images/03_21_04/fitzsaw3.jpg)
hot dog think i got it
(https://forestryforum.com/images/03_21_04/fitzfirewood%20processor%20#3.jpg)
i figured it out got through that part of the process does that constitute as hazing
Waytago Eddward! That's an awesome looking mill. Now that you've showed us a pitchker, tell us a bit about it and how you came by it. :P
I guess will have to find you some room in the frat house now. Just don't tell your parents what goes on in here.
Welcome aboard Ed. Do like I do, call a 17 year old geek and give him a package of blank cd's in payment and tell him what you want...done!
Well the mill actually belongs to a buddy of mine and his dad right now. I started working with them when they had a scragg mill set up to mak pallet cants. Well I got shiped of to Fort Riley Kansas with the U.S. army reserves in support of Operation Enduring Freedom/ Operation Iraqi Freedom. They bought the mill from some guy in Southern Ohio. We then in turn sold the scragg mill to some amish guy in Southern Ohio. We use this mill mainly to produce and cut railroad ties. Although we have come to find out we end up producing lots of differant grades of lumber. So now we have lots of lumber to get rid of. My buddies dad is going to turn the mill over to us when we get this going good and he makes his money back off of it. His dad has another mill out at his place outsde of town. He uses that mill to cut grade lumber and do custom sawing. He has three kiln dries that we dry all of our lumber in. We also do alot of logging of our own. We have started getting into timber brokering alittle. So far we are doing pretty good. We now are working on the weekends to split and sell firewood.
Welcome Ed . Another one from Ohio . If we get a few more we might outnumber those Michigan members .
Nice looking setup there . What kinda power you running that mill with ?
Heck you are just a stones throw away from BBTom .He lives by Malobar State Park .
where the heck is malabar stae lake at
It's right below Mansfield. So it should be just a little Northeast of you .
hey everyone We just logged about 8 truck loads of walnut. I have a few truck loads on the camera. As soon as i can get my wife to upload them to the computer i will let everyone see all this money. we ended up with 3 truck loads of veneer walnut logs.
Welcome aboard Ed! Do you have a geeky nephew? Do you know of anyone that will loan you a geeky nephew?? He can take care of it. :D
uh oh...didn't read far enough...my partner is always acusing me of that. ;D..looks like you have a lot of mechanical ability. Good luck with the business. This is a neat place for ideas and information. ;)